# Gapup Competitive Deep Dive

> Gapup Competitive Deep Dive is a paid API for AI agents from mcp.gapup.io, paid per call via x402, $0.3/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Performs a multi-source competitive intelligence analysis on a target company, optionally benchmarking it against up to 5 named competitors across Wikipedia, Yahoo Finance, EDGAR, HackerNews, and more.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mcp.gapup.io/api/v1/call/competitive_deep_dive
- Price: $0.3/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/gapup-competitive-deep-dive-3934b0fa
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_aG5XTsuSIfsz-4Z4x4Toh

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 gapup-competitive-deep-dive-3934b0fa -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Do a hard-depth competitive deep dive on HubSpot CRM, comparing it against Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, and Freshsales — give me the full breakdown across financials, product positioning, and market standing.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a comprehensive multi-source competitive intelligence report on a specific company, especially when you want to benchmark it against named competitors. Prefer this over generic web search when you need structured comparison matrices drawing from financial filings (EDGAR), business databases (Yahoo Finance), and community signals (HackerNews) in a single call.

## Known failure modes

- Company name too ambiguous or not found — returns empty or partial result
- Competitor not recognized or domain resolves to unknown entity
- Request times out at hard depth (120s) if async=false is not set — use async=true for hard depth
- Rate limit or authentication error if API key is missing or invalid — returns 401
- EDGAR or Yahoo Finance temporarily unavailable — partial result with missing financial data

## How this service works

REST gateway for the Gapup MCP catalogue — 271 AI tools accessible via standard HTTP. Authentication via Authorization: Bearer <api_key>. Native MCP transport available at /mcp.

## Output

A structured JSON object containing competitive intelligence on the target company, including a comparison matrix across the specified competitors sourced from Wikipedia, Yahoo Finance, EDGAR, HackerNews, and domain surfaces depending on the chosen depth level.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "async": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "description": "If true, returns a job_id immediately (<200ms) instead of waiting for the result. Poll the result with job_result(job_id). Use for slow tools to avoid client timeouts."
  },
  "depth": {
   "enum": [
    "easy",
    "medium",
    "hard"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Research depth: 'easy' = Wikipedia + DDG (fast, ~15s); 'medium' = + Yahoo Finance + EDGAR + Wayback (default, ~45s); 'hard' = + HackerNews + domain surfaces + competitor deep dive (~120s)"
  },
  "company": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 200,
   "minLength": 2,
   "description": "Name or domain of the target company (e.g. 'Salesforce', 'notion.so', 'HubSpot CRM')"
  },
  "competitors": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "string",
    "maxLength": 200
   },
   "maxItems": 5,
   "description": "Optional list of competitor names or domains to include in the comparison matrix (max 5)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "tool": "competitive_deep_dive",
  "result": {},
  "source": "rest-api"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/gapup-competitive-deep-dive-3934b0fa/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mcp.gapup.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mcp.gapup.io/llms.txt)