# Gardenpatch Mary — Growth Strategy Coach

> Gardenpatch Mary — Growth Strategy Coach is a paid API for AI agents from gardenpatch.xyz, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Diagnoses the binding constraint on revenue and returns the single highest-leverage growth action with supporting arithmetic, concrete steps, and a typed deliverable.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://gardenpatch.xyz/api/v1/agents/mary/call
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/gardenpatch-mary-growth-strategy-coach-8234231d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DaYyzgBsz_qmAfgKNTLEn

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 gardenpatch-mary-growth-strategy-coach-8234231d -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: My SaaS business has been at $40k MRR for four months and I can't figure out what's holding growth back — we're converting leads at about 3% and churn is around 6% monthly. Can you run this through the Mary growth coach to find the binding constraint on revenue and tell me the one lever I should pull?

## When to prefer this

Choose Mary when you need to identify the single highest-leverage growth action and want the reasoning grounded in revenue arithmetic rather than generic advice. Prefer this over generic business advice tools when the user has a real revenue constraint they need diagnosed. Use Mary specifically for top-of-funnel growth strategy; route to Reed for sales/pricing/outbound specifics, Iris for demand generation and positioning, or Violet for churn and retention problems.

## Known failure modes

- Insufficient business context provided — coach may return generic advice rather than a specific constraint diagnosis
- Ambiguous or conflicting metrics may result in caveated diagnosis requiring clarification
- Payment failure via x402 protocol returns 402 status before any analysis is performed
- Vague or missing revenue numbers prevent the arithmetic component from being meaningful

## How this service works

Mary — Growth strategy. Head growth coach. Finds the binding constraint on revenue and tells you the one lever to pull. Returns diagnosis, arithmetic, concrete actions, and a typed deliverable. From $0.18.

## Output

Returns a structured growth diagnosis identifying the primary binding constraint on revenue, supporting arithmetic showing why it's the bottleneck, a set of concrete prioritized actions to address it, and a typed deliverable (such as a one-pager, framework, or action plan) the user can act on immediately.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "required": [
      "mode",
      "messages"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "mode": {
       "enum": [
        "diagnose_growth",
        "design_offer",
        "rewrite_pricing",
        "funnel_review",
        "write_outbound_sequence",
        "audit_function"
       ],
       "type": "string"
      },
      "context": {
       "type": "object",
       "properties": {
        "offer": {
         "type": "object",
         "properties": {
          "name": {
           "type": "string",
           "maxLength": 200
          },
          "promise": {
           "type": "string",
           "maxLength": 2000
          },
          "guarantee": {
           "type": "string",
           "maxLength": 1000
          },
          "price_usd": {
           "type": "number",
           "minimum": 0
          }
         }
        },
        "company": {
         "type": "object",
         "properties": {
          "name": {
           "type": "string",
           "maxLength": 200
          },
          "stage": {
           "enum": [
            "idea",
            "pre_revenue",
            "early_revenue",
            "scaling",
            "mature"
           ],
           "type": "string"
          },
          "website": {
           "type": "string",
           "maxLength": 500
          },
          "industry": {
           "type": "string",
           "maxLength": 200
          },
          "what_they_sell": {
           "type": "string",
           "maxLength": 2000
          }
         }
        },
        "metrics": {
         "type": "object",
         "properties": {
          "cac_usd": {
           "type": "number",
           "minimum": 0
          },
          "mrr_usd": {
           "type": "number",
           "minimum": 0
          },
          "close_rate_pct": {
           "type": "number",
           "maximum": 100,
           "minimum": 0
          },
          "leads_per_month": {
           "type": "number",
           "minimum": 0
          },
          "monthly_churn_pct": {
           "type": "number",
           "maximum": 100,
           "minimum": 0
          },
         
… (truncated)
```

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