# Orthogonal Transaction Brand Identifier

> Orthogonal Transaction Brand Identifier is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Identifies the brand or merchant behind a bank/card transaction using the transaction title or description string.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.orthogonal.com/context-dev/brand/transaction_identifier
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-transaction-brand-identifier-649b9a15
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uVKX8CIj8oOJaXfOQ9ZWF

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-transaction-brand-identifier-649b9a15
```

Example prompt: Can you figure out what brand or merchant is behind this transaction on my bank statement — the description says 'SQ *MORNING BLOOM SF' and the MCC is 5812, city is San Francisco?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to resolve raw bank or card transaction description strings into recognizable brand names — especially useful for fintech apps, expense management tools, or fraud detection pipelines that need human-readable merchant identities. Prefer it over generic web search when you need structured, fast merchant identification with optional MCC and geographic context signals.

## Known failure modes

- Ambiguous transaction string leads to low-confidence or no match
- Transaction description too short or generic to identify brand
- Timeout if request exceeds specified timeoutMS
- Returns 408 if processing exceeds maximum allowed timeout
- Unrecognized MCC or country code may reduce accuracy
- High-confidence-only mode may return no result if verification fails

## How this service works

Endpoint specially designed for platforms that want to identify transaction data by the transaction title.

## Output

Returns the identified brand/merchant name and associated business details (such as category or industry) resolved from the transaction description string, optionally with a high-confidence verification flag indicating certainty of the match.

## 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": {
      "mcc": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional Merchant Category Code (MCC) to help identify the business category/industry. "
      },
      "city": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional city name to prioritize when searching for the brand."
      },
      "phone": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Optional phone number from the transaction to help verify brand match."
      },
      "maxSpeed": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "Optional parameter to optimize the API call for maximum speed. When set to true, the API will skip time-consuming operations for faster response at the cost of less comprehensive data."
      },
      "timeoutMS": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Optional timeout in milliseconds for the request. If the request takes longer than this value, it will be aborted with a 408 status code. Maximum allowed value is 300000ms (5 minutes)."
      },
      "country_gl": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional country code (GL parameter) to specify the country. This affects the geographic location used for search queries."
      },
      "transaction_info": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Transaction information to identify the brand"
      },
      "high_confidence_only": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "When set to true, the API will perform an additional verification steps to ensure the identified brand matches the transaction with high confidence. Defaults to false."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/orthogonal-transaction-brand-identifier-649b9a15/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)