# Edge Agents – US Gross Capital Formation Intelligence

> Edge Agents – US Gross Capital Formation Intelligence 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 macro analysis of US Gross Capital Formation with provenance, confidence scoring, and contradiction flags for business decision-makers and AI agents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/macro-us-capital-formation
- 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-us-gross-capital-formation-intelligence-21c72324
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Akoov0DbZ-7xUolZDlgDL

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-us-gross-capital-formation-intelligence-21c72324
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest Edge Agents decision intelligence report on US Gross Capital Formation — I need the confidence level, evidence summary, and provenance so I can include it in a board briefing.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, provenance-signed macro intelligence on US capital formation specifically — not raw data feeds. It is optimized for AI agents and business decision-makers who need bounded, citable conclusions with confidence scores and contradiction flags rather than uninterpreted statistics. Prefer it over generic data APIs when auditability and provenance matter, such as in board reports, regulatory filings, or multi-agent reasoning pipelines.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not processed (HTTP 402) — x402 micropayment of $0.01 USDC required before data is returned
- Data unavailable or stale — report will state coverage gaps and source freshness limitations explicitly in the limitations array
- Low-confidence result — confidence field may return values below 'high' when evidence is sparse or contradictory
- Network or server error — standard 5xx response if upstream data pipeline is unavailable

## 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

A structured JSON report containing: quality status and confidence level, a macro analysis summary with intent tags, evidence assets and point-in-time policy, signed provenance from edge-agents.ai, data completeness status, schema version, generation timestamp, and a standard disclaimer that the output is general market research and not investment advice.

## 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": [
    "evidence",
    "investment"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh United States Gross Capital Formation findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "USA"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "macro-us-capital-formation",
  "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"
 }
}
```

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