# MacroLens Unemployment Analysis API

> MacroLens Unemployment Analysis API is a paid API for AI agents from marcrons.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.4/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns AI-powered unemployment trend analysis using FRED data, enriched with LLM-generated macro-economic insights, starting from a specified date

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://marcrons.vercel.app/api/unemployment
- Price: $0.4/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/macrolens-unemployment-analysis-api-9ce63f07
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_hlsB4iGuBHxdGMnY7CJxj

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 macrolens-unemployment-analysis-api-9ce63f07 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull me an AI-powered unemployment analysis from MacroLens starting from January 2020 — I want the trend data and any macro insights on what drove the changes.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need not just raw unemployment numbers but AI-interpreted macro-economic context — it combines FRED's authoritative data with LLM narrative, saving the step of separately fetching and analyzing the data. Prefer this over raw FRED API calls when you want a synthesized, human-readable analysis alongside the data. Best for economic research, policy analysis, investment research, and labor market monitoring tasks where contextual interpretation matters as much as the numbers.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or malformed start date returns a validation error
- Invalid date format causes request failure
- FRED or World Bank data unavailable for requested date range returns partial or empty data
- LLM analysis generation timeout may result in incomplete insight content
- Dates too far in the past may have limited FRED data availability
- Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks the request entirely

## How this service works

AI-powered macro-economic analysis. FRED + World Bank data + MiMo LLM. 20 endpoints. x402 on Base.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a success boolean and a data object containing unemployment rate time-series data sourced from FRED, enriched with AI-generated macro-economic analysis and trend interpretation from the MiMo LLM, covering the period from the specified start date to the present.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "start"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "start": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "start"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "success"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "data": {
   "type": "object"
  },
  "success": {
   "type": "boolean"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/macrolens-unemployment-analysis-api-9ce63f07/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from marcrons.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/marcrons.vercel.app/llms.txt)