# Cognilode Venture Underwriter

> Cognilode Venture Underwriter is a paid API for AI agents from cognilode.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Scores and ranks a venture or product opportunity using risk-adjusted metrics to produce a launch/no-launch decision

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://cognilode.com/api/x402/venture-underwrite
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cognilode-venture-underwriter-e9f6b3e5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_easjOfhz7kkKhAf-wyI2V

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 cognilode-venture-underwriter-e9f6b3e5 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Score my new SaaS product 'DataSync' for a launch decision — demand signal is 0.78, execution risk 0.35, compliance risk 0.1, gross margin 0.72, repeat purchase 0.65, expected ticket $299, capital needed $50000, 800 build hours, 720 hours to revenue, distribution control 0.6, evidence confidence 0.8.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a structured, quantitative go/no-launch decision for a product or venture idea, especially when you have signal data across demand, risk, margin, and capital dimensions. Prefer it over manual analysis or generic scoring tools when you want a single risk-adjusted rank score with a clear binary decision output, particularly in agentic pipelines evaluating multiple ideas in sequence.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required fields 'name' or 'demandSignal' returns a validation error
- Score values outside 0–1 range rejected by schema
- Invalid method type (only POST/PUT/PATCH accepted)
- Payment failure results in 402 response before processing
- Ambiguous or missing capitalRequiredUsd may produce lower-confidence scoring

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a JSON object with ok:true, a ranked array of venture entries each containing a risk-adjusted score (0–1 float) and a launch decision string (e.g. 'launch' or 'no-launch'), and a service identifier ('diversified-venture-underwriter').

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "type": "string",
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ]
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "type": "string",
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ]
    },
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "id": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "name": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "category": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "demandSignal": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0,
       "maximum": 1
      },
      "distributionControl": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0,
       "maximum": 1
      },
      "repeatPurchase": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0,
       "maximum": 1
      },
      "evidenceConfidence": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0,
       "maximum": 1
      },
      "complianceRisk": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0,
       "maximum": 1
      },
      "executionRisk": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0,
       "maximum": 1
      },
      "providerConcentration": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0,
       "maximum": 1
      },
      "channelConcentration": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0,
       "maximum": 1
      },
      "timeToRevenueHours": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0
      },
      "buildHours": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0
      },
      "grossMarginPct": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0,
       "maximum": 1
      },
      "capitalRequiredUsd": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0
      },
      "settlementDelayDays": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0
      },
      "expectedTicketUsd": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0
      },
      "expectedMonthlyTransactions": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0
      },
      "failedSimilarity": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0,
       "maximum": 1
      },
      "channels": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "providers": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "failedHypotheses": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
 
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```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "result": {
   "ranked": [
    {
     "score": {
      "riskAdjusted": 0.63
     },
     "decision": "launch"
    }
   ]
  },
  "service": "diversified-venture-underwriter"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/cognilode-venture-underwriter-e9f6b3e5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from cognilode.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/cognilode.com/llms.txt)