# Saylor Innovations Data Desk – ROR Research Organisation Lookup

> Saylor Innovations Data Desk – ROR Research Organisation Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

Looks up research organisations in the ROR registry, returning ROR ID, type, country, city, website, Wikipedia, GRID, ISNI and Fundref identifiers

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/research/organizations?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-data-desk-ror-research-organisation-lookup-54e1f64b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_cYpAIrIaTSSSVrIEC1N_h

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 saylor-innovations-data-desk-ror-research-organisation-lookup-54e1f64b
```

Example prompt: Can you look up Stanford University in the ROR registry and give me its ROR ID, country, city, website, and any ISNI or Fundref identifiers?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative persistent identifiers (ROR, GRID, ISNI, Fundref) for a research organisation, or when you need to disambiguate institution names with verified metadata such as country, city, type and official website. Prefer it over general web search when structured, machine-readable registry data is required for downstream data enrichment, grant metadata, publication affiliation, or compliance workflows.

## Known failure modes

- No matching organisation found for ambiguous or misspelled names — returns empty organisations array
- Query string missing — returns 400 bad request
- Very common generic terms may return a large number of loosely matched results requiring filtering
- Non-English institution names may have reduced match quality
- Payment failure results in 402 response and no data returned

## How this service works

Look up research organisations in the ROR registry - ROR id, type, country, city, website, Wikipedia, GRID, ISNI and Fundref ids for any institution

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the interpreted query string, the data source attribution, the number of results returned, the total match count, and an array of matching organisations each with fields such as ROR ID, organisation type, country, city, official website, Wikipedia URL, GRID ID, ISNI, and Fundref ID.

## 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",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Organisation name, e.g. stanford university, max planck, cern"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query",
      "organizations"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The query as the server interpreted it"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Data source the values come from"
      },
      "returned": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Number of items in this response"
      },
      "organizations": {
       "type": "array"
      },
      "total_matches": {
       "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
       ],
       "description": "Total number of matches before any limit is applied"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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