# Research Brief Generator

> Research Brief Generator is a paid API for AI agents from agent-research-brief-api-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Generates a structured research brief including research questions, search queries, interview targets, key risks, and next actions for a given topic.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agent-research-brief-api-production.up.railway.app/api/research-brief
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/research-brief-generator-c3ef6e43
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_RlbffZ4zT5eAseaCNNqyv

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 research-brief-generator-c3ef6e43 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you generate a structured research brief for evaluating whether to launch a B2B SaaS product in the legal tech space — I need research questions, suggested search queries, who to interview, key risks, and concrete next steps?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to quickly scaffold a research agenda from scratch — especially useful before starting market research, competitive analysis, investment due diligence, or product discovery. It is best suited for agents or users who need a structured, multi-dimensional research plan (questions + queries + people + risks + actions) rather than just web search results or a summary. Prefer this over generic search or summarization endpoints when the goal is planning and structuring research rather than executing it.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or vague topic input may result in generic or low-quality output
- Overly broad topics may produce unfocused research briefs with low actionability
- Service unavailability on Railway hosting may return 503 errors
- Payment failure via x402 protocol may block request before processing
- Rate limiting or timeout on LLM backend may cause incomplete responses

## How this service works

Generate a structured research brief with research questions, search queries, interview targets, key risks, and next actions.

## Output

A structured research brief containing: a list of research questions to answer, suggested search queries to run, recommended interview targets (roles or types of people to speak with), identified key risks associated with the research topic, and a set of prioritized next actions to move the research forward.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/research-brief-generator-c3ef6e43/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agent-research-brief-api-production.up.railway.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agent-research-brief-api-production.up.railway.app/llms.txt)