# Oblique Markets Profile Search

> Oblique Markets Profile Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.oblique.markets, paid per call via x402, $0.3/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Search for person profiles by name, location, title, company, school, or other filters, returning structured biographical data

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.oblique.markets/api/v1/paid/profile-search
- Price: $0.3/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/oblique-markets-profile-search-340be4fb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_wYaASWnjxM0BysMONjDn8

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-profile-search-340be4fb -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search for profiles of people named 'Sarah Chen' who work at OpenAI and have a title related to engineering — give me their background summaries and any source URLs you find.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to quickly look up a person's public profile data — especially biographical summaries and professional affiliations — without requiring a LinkedIn account or scraping. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured, paginated person data with filters like company, title, location, school, or industry. Ideal for autonomous agent workflows that need to enrich contact data or verify a person's identity from public sources.

## Known failure modes

- No profiles found for the given search terms — returns empty profiles array
- Invalid or missing search parameters return a 400 or empty result
- Rate limiting or payment failure via x402 protocol blocks the request
- Pagination page out of range returns empty results
- Wikipedia/Wikimedia source may not have profiles for obscure individuals

## How this service works

HTTP APIs for AI agents, paid per call with x402 (USDC on Base/Solana) or MPP (Tempo). No accounts, no API keys.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a list of matching person profiles including full name, summary, headline, location, company name, source URL, LinkedIn URL/ID, and avatar URL, plus pagination details (page number, total results, next page availability).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "page": {
   "type": "integer"
  },
  "geoId": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "title": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "school": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "search": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "lastName": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "location": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "firstName": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "followerOf": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "industryId": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "pastCompany": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "currentCompany": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "requestContext": {
   "type": "object"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "search": "Ada Lovelace",
  "source": "Wikimedia Wikipedia public search",
  "bounded": true,
  "profiles": [
   {
    "title": null,
    "source": "Wikimedia Wikipedia public search",
    "summary": "English mathematician and writer.",
    "fullName": "Ada Lovelace",
    "headline": null,
    "lastName": "Lovelace",
    "location": null,
    "avatarUrl": null,
    "firstName": "Ada",
    "sourceUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace",
    "linkedinId": null,
    "companyName": null,
    "linkedinUrl": null
   }
  ],
  "pagination": {
   "page": 1,
   "total": 1,
   "nextPage": null,
   "pageSize": 10,
   "hasNextPage": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/oblique-markets-profile-search-340be4fb/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)