# Orthogonal Scouting Report

> Orthogonal Scouting Report is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.12/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Generates a comprehensive company scouting report including news, founders, funding history, media links, and historical headcount data.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.orthogonal.com/fiber/v1/scouting-report
- Price: $0.12/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-scouting-report-17e16d64
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3-33nFS2eSB-kifNNtfPZ

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-scouting-report-17e16d64 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull a full scouting report on Stripe — I need their founders, funding rounds, recent news, and headcount trends. Use their domain stripe.com to look them up.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a broad, multi-dimensional company profile in a single call — covering founders, funding, news, and headcount together. Prefer it over point-solution APIs (e.g. just funding data or just news) when doing due diligence, sales prospecting, or competitive research and you want all signals in one payload. Especially useful when you have a LinkedIn URL or company domain as your starting identifier.

## Known failure modes

- Company not found for the given identifier — returns empty or error response
- Invalid identifier type or missing value — schema validation error
- LinkedIn URL or slug does not match a known company record
- Rate limiting or payment failure via x402 protocol
- Stale or incomplete data for lesser-known or very new companies

## How this service works

Generates a comprehensive scouting report for a company including news, founders, funding, media links, and historical headcount.

## Output

A structured scouting report containing the company's news mentions, founder profiles, funding rounds and amounts, media links, and historical headcount data — all aggregated from the provided company identifier (LinkedIn URL, slug, org ID, or domain).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "company": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "Company identifier. Set 'identifier' to 'linkedinUrl', 'linkedinSlug', 'linkedinOrgId', or 'domain' and provide the corresponding 'value'."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-scouting-report-17e16d64/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)