# politics-lobbying-spend

> politics-lobbying-spend is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a lobbying-spend profile for a company or organization, fusing Senate LDA filings into annual totals, issue areas, registrant firms hired, and optionally LD-203 political contribution summaries.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://payai.agentstools.dev/lobbying/spend
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/politics-lobbying-spend-9af2be27
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_HcTncUKQU5BP4cxH3rk4N

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 politics-lobbying-spend-9af2be27
```

Example prompt: Pull the lobbying spend profile for Lockheed Martin — I want the annual spend totals, top issue areas, and the registrant firms they hired, and go ahead and include the LD-203 political contribution summary from their top lobbyists too.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need aggregated, trend-aware lobbying spend data for a specific company or organization sourced from Senate LDA filings, especially when you also want to see which registrant firms were hired and what political contributions those firms reported. Prefer this over raw FOIA or manual LDA searches when you need a pre-fused, structured profile with issue-area breakdowns in a single call.

## Known failure modes

- Company or organization name not found in Senate LDA database — returns empty or no-match result
- Ambiguous entity name matching multiple organizations — may return data for the wrong entity
- Requested filing year has no available filings — returns empty spend for that year
- LD-203 contribution summary unavailable if no top registrant firms are identified
- Rate limit or payment failure via x402 protocol — returns 402 or 429 status
- Partial data if LDA filings are incomplete or not yet processed for a recent year

## How this service works

Lobbying-spend profile for a company or organization by name. Fuses the entity's Senate LDA filings into total reported spend by year with a trend, the top issue areas and the registrant firms it hired, plus recent cited filings. Optionally adds a bounded summary of the LD-203 political contributions reported by its top registrant firms.

## Output

A structured lobbying-spend profile containing: total reported spend aggregated by year with a trend indicator, the top issue areas lobbied, the registrant (lobbying) firms hired, links or citations to recent LDA filings, and (when requested) a bounded summary of LD-203 political contributions reported by the top registrant firms.

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Alias for client_name"
      },
      "client_name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Company or organization lobbying client name"
      },
      "filing_year": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Filing year filter, e.g. 2024"
      },
      "include_political_contributions": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "Also summarize LD-203 contributions of top registrants"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/politics-lobbying-spend-9af2be27/health.json
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