# Edge Agents Business Cycle Nowcast

> Edge Agents Business Cycle Nowcast is a paid API for AI agents from pay.edge-agents.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Delivers a real-time, evidence-backed business cycle nowcast with macro indicators, risk signals, and provenance for business leaders and AI agents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/business-cycle-nowcast
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/edge-agents-business-cycle-nowcast-1bf2e4cb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_SRIenIfhd2hDGUwZE-jL6

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-business-cycle-nowcast-1bf2e4cb
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest business cycle nowcast from Edge Agents and tell me what phase we're in right now — expansion, contraction, or transition — along with the confidence level and key macro risk signals?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a structured, provenance-signed, point-in-time business cycle assessment with bounded confidence levels — especially for autonomous agents or executive decision-making contexts that require cited evidence and explicit contradiction disclosure. Prefer over generic LLM-generated macro commentary when auditability, signing, and live source freshness matter. Best for boards, CFOs, and strategy agents needing a defensible macro snapshot rather than qualitative opinion.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not completed (x402 protocol): request blocked until $0.01 USDC payment is confirmed
- Data unavailable or stale: report may note coverage gaps or source freshness limitations inline
- Network or service error: HTTP 5xx response if upstream macro data sources are unreachable
- Malformed request: unexpected query parameters may be ignored or return error
- Evidence incomplete: some indicator families may be absent if source data is unavailable at call time

## How this service works

Edge Agents provides evidence-backed macro, market and decision intelligence for AI agents, individual leaders and investors, businesses and government teams requiring consulting, procurement and decision support. Machine services are purchasable per request over x402 on 5 settlement rails (Base/USDC, XRPL/RLUSD, Solana/USDC, Arbitrum/USDC and Polygon/USDC).

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing: cycle quality status (e.g. 'strong') and confidence level (e.g. 'high'); analysis block with macro family classification and intent signals covering risk, momentum, inflation, labour, rates, growth, and commodities; a summary of findings; evidence assets and point-in-time policy context; provenance with issuer URL and signing flag; generatedAt timestamp; dataStatus; disclaimer noting this is general market research (not investment advice); and a list of coverage limitations.

## 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": "macro",
   "intents": [
    "risk",
    "momentum",
    "evidence",
    "cycle",
    "forecast",
    "inflation",
    "labour",
    "rates",
    "growth",
    "commodities",
    "yield"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh Business Cycle Nowcast findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "business-cycle-nowcast",
  "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-business-cycle-nowcast-1bf2e4cb/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from pay.edge-agents.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/pay.edge-agents.ai/llms.txt)