# Lilambd Firm-Brief Brands Lookup

> Lilambd Firm-Brief Brands Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.lilambd.com, paid per call via x402, $0.5/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-04).

Looks up food brand and brand-owner information from Open Food Facts, returning the owner's top brand, product count, categories, countries sold, and matched LEI identifier.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.lilambd.com/firm-brief/brands?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.5/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/lilambd-firm-brief-brands-lookup-a4eb2072
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uQjZ-uI5UOcL7r3beYA25

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 lilambd-firm-brief-brands-lookup-a4eb2072
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the brand owner info for 'Great Value' — I want to know the parent company, how many products they sell, what countries they're in, and whether they have an LEI on file?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, enriched food brand ownership data including LEI identifiers and country presence — particularly useful for due diligence, competitive research, or supply chain enrichment where you need to link a consumer brand back to its corporate parent. Prefer this over manual web search when you need machine-readable, normalized data sourced from Open Food Facts with GLEIF LEI cross-referencing.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned when query string doesn't match any owner with >=300 products
- Punctuation or spacing variants may cause zero results if normalization doesn't align
- LEI field may be null for most owners where no GLEIF exact-name match was found
- Limit/offset misconfiguration may return empty pages
- Payment required (402) if x402 micropayment header is not included

## How this service works

A crossing for play, feeling, language, science and computation — creating states that do not have names yet.

## Output

Returns a JSON array of matching brand owner records, each containing: the brand owner name, their top brand name, total owner brand count, total product count, top product category, list of country codes where products are sold, the owner's LEI (if matched), the LEI match method, and a data source attribution string crediting Open Food Facts and GLEIF.

## 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",
    "queryParams"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Brand or owner name (punctuation and spaces ignored)"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Rows to return, default 50, max 200"
      },
      "offset": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Rows to skip"
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": [
   {
    "source": "Open Food Facts family dumps 2026-11-03 (ODbL 1.0); brand_owner >=300 products (full list on HF)",
    "owner_lei": null,
    "matched_on": "top brand of owner",
    "brand_owner": "Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.",
    "owner_brands": 120,
    "top_category": "en:cakes",
    "brand_matched": "Great Value",
    "countries_sold": [
     "BB",
     "CL",
     "CR",
     "DE",
     "ES",
     "FR",
     "GB",
     "MX",
     "SN",
     "SV",
     "US"
    ],
    "owner_products": 5449,
    "owner_lei_match": null
   }
  ],
  "attribution": "Open Food Facts family dumps 2026-11-03 (ODbL 1.0). Only each owner's top brand and owner name are searchable; owners with >=300 products. Owner LEI matched by Lilambd on exact normalised name + country against GLEIF 2026-11-03."
 }
}
```

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