# Bob Research Synthesis

> Bob Research Synthesis is a paid API for AI agents from bob-research-synthesis.fly.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Answers factual or market-research questions by searching the live web, extracting relevant pages, and returning a synthesized answer with source URLs

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://bob-research-synthesis.fly.dev/research?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/bob-research-synthesis-0981d9ee
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_efXDzcDPW56v2qS3ulZ-8

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability bob-research-synthesis-0981d9ee
```

Example prompt: Can you research what the current global market size of the generative AI industry is and give me a short synthesized answer with sources?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, synthesized, factual answer grounded in current live web content — especially for market research, competitive analysis, regulatory lookups, or any question where up-to-date information matters. It is better than static knowledge bases or LLM-only answers for current-events and market data questions.

## Known failure modes

- Timeout if research cannot be completed within the time limit — caller receives an error and is not charged
- No relevant pages found for highly niche or very recent queries
- Synthesized answer may reflect outdated cached pages in edge cases
- Malformed or empty query string returns an error

## How this service works

Ask any factual or market-research question. Searches the live web with Tavily and Exa, extracts the most relevant page with Firecrawl, and returns a short synthesized answer with source URLs. Typical response 4 to 8 seconds. If it cannot answer in time you get an error and are not charged.

## Output

A short synthesized natural-language answer to the research question, accompanied by an array of source URLs from the live web pages used to construct the answer. Typical response time is 4–8 seconds.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The research question to answer"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "answer",
      "sources"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "answer": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "sources": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/bob-research-synthesis-0981d9ee/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from bob-research-synthesis.fly.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/bob-research-synthesis.fly.dev/llms.txt)