# GoCreative Census Business State API

> GoCreative Census Business State API is a paid API for AI agents from api.gocreativeai.com, paid per call via x402, $0.04/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns establishment counts, employment, and payroll data by NAICS industry sector for a given US state, sourced from Census County Business Patterns

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.gocreativeai.com/v1/census/business-state/:var1
- Price: $0.04/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/gocreative-census-business-state-api-58307688
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_NwZV1bUoKpeIX9QPzHYs2

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 gocreative-census-business-state-api-58307688
```

Example prompt: Pull the Census County Business Patterns data for Texas — I want to see how many establishments, total employment, and annual payroll there are broken down by NAICS industry sector so I can size the market for our B2B SaaS product.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need official, government-sourced market sizing data (TAM) for a specific US state broken down by industry sector. Ideal for sales territory planning, site selection research, and market entry analysis where authoritative Census data is required rather than estimated or proprietary figures.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized state identifier returns an error or empty result
- Invalid NAICS sector code returns no data
- Census data may lag by 1-2 years from current date
- Missing query parameter 'input' returns a validation error
- Rate limiting or payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient

## How this service works

US state business landscape from Census County Business Patterns — total establishments, employment, and annual payroll broken down by industry sector, for any state (CA or FIPS). Authoritative market-sizing/TAM ground truth. Aggregate official stats, not a directory.

## Output

A structured response containing establishment counts, employment figures, and payroll totals broken down by NAICS industry sector for the specified US state, sourced from official Census County Business Patterns data.

## 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"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "input"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "input": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "endpoint argument"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

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