# Orthogonal Person Founded Companies Lookup

> Orthogonal Person Founded Companies Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Retrieve a paginated list of companies that a specific person has founded, identified by LinkedIn URL, ID, or email.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.orthogonal.com/aviato/person/founded-companies
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-person-founded-companies-lookup-ce8da775
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7uoy0lAzZAL8wqIZVl25X

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 orthogonal-person-founded-companies-lookup-ce8da775
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up all the companies that Elon Musk has founded? Use his LinkedIn URL https://www.linkedin.com/in/elonmusk and show me the first page of results.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, paginated data about a person's founding history sourced from Aviato's professional data graph, particularly when you already have a LinkedIn identifier or email. Prefer this over general web scraping when you need clean, structured company records rather than raw HTML, and when cost-efficiency for multi-page queries matters (subsequent pages are free with parentRequestId).

## Known failure modes

- Person not found — no matching record for the provided identifier
- Invalid or missing identifier — must supply at least one of id, email, linkedinID, linkedinURL, or linkedinEntityId
- Rate limit or payment failure — x402 payment of $0.02 USDC not accepted
- Empty result set — person exists but has no recorded founded companies
- Pagination mismatch — changing filters mid-pagination starts a new billable request

## How this service works

Get companies that a person has founded. Pagination billing: call the first page normally and save billing.requestId from the Orthogonal /v1/run response. For later page, offset, or cursor calls on the same logical search, pass parentRequestId with unchanged non-pagination parameters. Valid continuation calls still get their own request IDs and quoted price, but are charged 0. Changing filters starts a new billable request.

## Output

A paginated list of companies the specified person has founded, including company details such as name, description, and related metadata. The response also includes a billing requestId that can be reused as parentRequestId for subsequent pages of the same query at no additional charge.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "id": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "page": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Page number For later pages of the same logical search, keep non-pagination parameters unchanged and pass top-level parentRequestId from the first Orthogonal /v1/run response."
      },
      "email": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "perPage": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Results per page (max 100)"
      },
      "linkedinID": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "linkedinURL": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "linkedinEntityId": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-person-founded-companies-lookup-ce8da775/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)