# Edge Agents AI – M&A Target Screen Context

> Edge Agents AI – M&A Target Screen Context is a paid API for AI agents from pay.edge-agents.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns evidence-backed M&A target screening context including cross-market analysis, risk and evidence intents, and sourced intelligence on potential acquisition targets.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/ma-target-screen-context
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/edge-agents-ai-m-a-target-screen-context-c1fe264c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uEnHuvQLURFwtmZtS9iLt

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 edge-agents-ai-m-a-target-screen-context-c1fe264c
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest M&A target screening context from Edge Agents so I can see which cross-market candidates have strong quality signals and what the evidence shows about acquisition risk right now.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need evidence-backed, sourced M&A target screening intelligence rather than raw data aggregation or generic financial data feeds. It is particularly well-suited for AI agents supporting investment committees, corporate development teams, or government procurement advisors who need a signed, provenance-tracked research output with explicit confidence scoring and cross-market framing. Prefer it over generic market data APIs when the output must include policy signals, risk intent classification, and a disclaimer-compliant research summary ready for decision support workflows.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not completed or USDC balance insufficient — 402 response returned
- Target criteria parameters missing or malformed — may return empty or incomplete analysis
- Stale data if upstream sources have not refreshed — dataStatus field may indicate incomplete
- No matching evidence assets found for requested context — evidence.assets array returns empty
- Service unavailable or timeout — standard HTTP 5xx error

## How this service works

M&A Target Screening Context. Combines macro, market and risk evidence into strategic scenarios, timing questions and option-value context. Purpose: Improve strategic choices by making assumptions, reversibility, triggers and evidence gaps explicit. 15-minute freshness target; missing evidence is reported explicitly rather than invented.

## Output

A structured JSON object containing a quality assessment (status and confidence level), a cross-market analysis summary with identified risk and evidence intents, an evidence block with cited assets and policy classification, a signed provenance record from edge-agents.ai, a generatedAt timestamp, a disclaimer noting general market research scope, and schema versioning. Coverage limitations and source freshness notes are included inline.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "quality": {
   "status": "strong",
   "confidence": "high"
  },
  "analysis": {
   "family": "cross-market",
   "intents": [
    "risk",
    "evidence"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh M&A Target Screening Context findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [],
   "policy": "mixed",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "ma-target-screen-context",
  "dataStatus": "complete",
  "disclaimer": "General, impersonal market research; not investment advice or a buy, sell or hold recommendation.",
  "provenance": {
   "issuer": "https://edge-agents.ai",
   "signed": true
  },
  "generatedAt": "2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "limitations": [
   "Coverage, source freshness and unavailable evidence are stated in every paid report."
  ],
  "schemaVersion": "2.0"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/edge-agents-ai-m-a-target-screen-context-c1fe264c/health.json
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