# ESGPulse SASB Sector Materiality Intelligence

> ESGPulse SASB Sector Materiality Intelligence is a paid API for AI agents from esgpulse.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.15/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns SASB-based industry-specific ESG materiality topics, peer benchmarks, regulatory hotspots, and investor/rater focus areas for a given sector

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://esgpulse.vercel.app/api/esg/sector
- Price: $0.15/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/esgpulse-sasb-sector-materiality-intelligence-00f6947b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_1H8AVdB_MUcSUgowz_pea

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 esgpulse-sasb-sector-materiality-intelligence-00f6947b
```

Example prompt: What are the most material ESG topics for the software and IT services sector — including what investors and ESG raters focus on, any regulatory hotspots, and how peers benchmark?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need sector-specific ESG materiality mapping based on SASB standards — particularly when assessing which ESG topics are most relevant for a specific industry, preparing for investor engagement, or benchmarking against peers. Prefer this over generic ESG framework endpoints when the question is industry-specific materiality rather than framework selection or company-level scoring.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or unsupported SASB sector returns a 404 or empty result
- Ambiguous sector name may return mismatched SASB classification
- Stale benchmark data if underlying sources have not been recently updated
- Rate limiting or payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient

## How this service works

ESGPulse delivers real-time ESG intelligence: CSRD compliance roadmaps, EU Taxonomy alignment checks, supply chain due diligence, emissions analysis, greenwashing risk, and more. x402 micropayment API.

## Output

A structured response containing SASB-identified material ESG topics for the specified sector, peer benchmark data, key regulatory hotspots, and the ESG factors that investors and major raters (MSCI, Sustainalytics, etc.) prioritize for that industry

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | de | fr | es | it | ja | zh | ko | pt | nl | ar"
      },
      "focus": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "all | investors | raters | regulators | customers | employees"
      },
      "sector": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Technology | Finance | Energy | Healthcare | Manufacturing | Retail | Food | Transport | Mining | Real Estate"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "sector": "Technology",
  "sasb_industry": "Software & IT Services",
  "investor_focus": [
   "Scope 2 emissions",
   "Data governance",
   "Employee turnover"
  ],
  "msci_weight_factors": [
   "Board independence",
   "Data security incidents",
   "Carbon intensity"
  ],
  "regulatory_hotspots": [
   "EU AI Act",
   "CSRD digital scope",
   "SEC cyber disclosure rules"
  ],
  "top_material_topics": [
   "Data privacy",
   "Cybersecurity",
   "Employee diversity",
   "Energy use in data centers"
  ],
  "peer_benchmark_available": true
 }
}
```

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