# Oblique Markets People Search > Oblique Markets People Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.oblique.markets, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13). Search for people using rich filter criteria including names, locations, skills, titles, seniority, company attributes, and industry, returning public profile data with explicit nulls for private fields. ## Facts - Endpoint: POST https://api.oblique.markets/api/v1/paid/people-search - Price: $0.1/call - Payment: x402 - Status: unknown - Last checked: 2026-09-13 - Activations on Zero: 0 - Tags: x402 - Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/oblique-markets-people-search-429d586e - Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_2s_AVuyoVOhS3FmBgpv4p 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 oblique-markets-people-search-429d586e -d '' ``` Example prompt: Find up to 20 senior software engineers located in Austin, Texas who have Python and machine learning skills and currently work at companies in the fintech industry — show me their names, titles, and whatever public profile info is available. ## When to prefer this Choose this endpoint when you need to search for people by professional attributes such as skills, title, seniority, company, or location and want a filtered, paginated result set. It is well-suited for talent sourcing, sales prospecting, and professional network discovery. Prefer it over generic web search when you need structured person data with rich filter vocabulary. Note that private contact details are not returned, so it is best for discovery and profiling rather than direct outreach data retrieval. ## Known failure modes - No results returned if filter combination is too restrictive or matches no indexed profiles - Overly broad queries may return noisy or loosely matched results - Private fields (email, phone, direct employment details) always return null — not retrievable - Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 payment is not properly handled - Pagination cursor (search_after) may expire or become invalid for stale queries - Exact match flags may reduce results significantly if names/skills are spelled differently than indexed ## How this service works Use when an agent needs people search. Returns People search for agents over a rich filter vocabulary (names, locations, skills, titles, seniority, company name/domain/industry/HQ/specialties), with bounded public Wikimedia results and explicit nulls for private contact and employment fields. $0.10. ## Output A paginated list of person records matching the filter criteria. Each record includes publicly available profile data such as name, location, skills, current job title, seniority level, and company details (name, domain, industry, specialties, headquarters). Private contact and employment fields are returned as explicit nulls. Results are bounded by Wikimedia public data where applicable. Supports cursor-based pagination via search_after. ## Request schema (JSON Schema) ```json { "type": "object", "properties": { "limit": { "type": "integer" }, "offset": { "type": "integer" }, "person_names": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "value" ], "properties": { "value": {}, "exclude": { "type": "boolean" }, "exact_match": { "type": "boolean" } } } }, "search_after": { "type": "string" }, "person_skills": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "value" ], "properties": { "value": {}, "exclude": { "type": "boolean" }, "exact_match": { "type": "boolean" } } } }, "person_locations": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "value" ], "properties": { "value": {}, "exclude": { "type": "boolean" }, "exact_match": { "type": "boolean" } } } }, "current_company_names": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "value" ], "properties": { "value": {}, "exclude": { "type": "boolean" }, "exact_match": { "type": "boolean" } } } }, "current_company_domains": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "value" ], "properties": { "value": {}, "exclude": { "type": "boolean" }, "exact_match": { "type": "boolean" } } } }, "current_position_titles": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "value" ], "properties": { "value": {}, "exclude": { "type": "boolean" }, "exact_match": { "type": "boolean" } } } }, "current_company_industries": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "value" ], "properties": { "value": {}, "exclude": { "type": "boolean" }, "exact_match": { "type": "boolean" } } } }, "current_company_specialties": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "value" ], "properties": { "value": {}, "exclude": { "type": "boolean" }, "exact_match": { "type": "boolean" } } } }, "current_company_headquarters": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required … (truncated) ``` ## Response schema (JSON Schema) ```json { "type": "json", "example": { "people": [ { "id": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovel…", "email": null, "phone": null, "source": "Wikimedia Wikipedia public search", "summary": "English mathematician and writer.", "location": null, "full_name": "Ada Lovelace", "last_name": "Lovelace", "first_name": "Ada", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovel…", "current_company": null, "current_position": null, "professional_network_url": null } ], "source": "Wikimedia Wikipedia public search", "bounded": true, "metadata": { "limit": 1, "total": 1, "offset": 0, "returned": 1, "search_after": null } } } ``` ## More - Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/oblique-markets-people-search-429d586e/health.json - [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt) - [Other services from api.oblique.markets](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.oblique.markets/llms.txt)