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Edge Agents AI – US Retail Sales Pulse
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Edge Agents AI – US Retail Sales Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from pay.edge-agents.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-01).
Returns an evidence-backed analysis of the latest US retail sales data with macro context, confidence ratings, and signed provenance.
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Direct Census Bureau Advance Monthly Retail Trade Survey total retail and food services sales level, with monthly and year-over-year change. Purpose: Measure the direction of US consumer spending at the point of sale using the Census Bureau's own headline retail-sales release. 6-hour freshness target; missing evidence is reported explicitly rather than invented.
Output
A JSON object containing: a quality block (status and confidence), an analysis block (macro family classification, intents such as 'evidence' and 'growth', and a plain-language summary of current US retail sales conditions), an evidence block listing covered assets, policy type, and data sources, the service ID, data status, a signed provenance block with issuer URL, generation timestamp, schema version, limitations, and a standard disclaimer that the report is general market research and not investment advice.
Example use cases
Macro briefing for investment decision
“I'm reviewing my US consumer-sector equity positions — can you get me the latest evidence-backed read on US retail sales with confidence ratings and source provenance so I can see if the trend supports holding?”
Agent economic monitoring workflow
“For my daily macro digest, pull the current US retail sales pulse and include the quality status and analyst summary so I can track whether consumer spending momentum is building or fading.”
Government procurement decision support
“I need a point-in-time, signed report on US retail sales activity with evidence sources clearly stated — this is for a procurement briefing on consumer demand conditions.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/us-retail-sales-pulse?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a current, evidence-backed, signed and sourced macro read on US retail sales with explicit confidence ratings and provenance — particularly for AI agent workflows, investment research, or government/business decision support that require auditability. It is pay-per-call at $0.01 USDC via x402 with multiple settlement rails, making it suitable for autonomous agents without subscription overhead. Prefer it over general news aggregators or LLM-generated summaries when source traceability and data quality signals are required.
Side effects
- Payment not included or insufficient — x402 payment required before data is returned
- Stale or unavailable source data — report will note coverage gaps and source freshness limitations in the limitations field
- Network timeout — endpoint may be slow if underlying data sources are being refreshed
- Invalid request format — malformed GET request returns an error without data
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"quality": {
"status": "strong",
"confidence": "high"
},
"analysis": {
"family": "macro",
"intents": [
"evidence",
"growth"
],
"summary": "Fresh US Retail Sales Pulse findings appear here."
},
"evidence": {
"assets": [
"USA"
],
"policy": "point-in-time",
"sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
},
"serviceId": "us-retail-sales-pulse",
"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"
}
}Tags
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