# Saylor Innovations US Federal Contracts & Grants Lookup

> Saylor Innovations US Federal Contracts & Grants Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Returns U.S. federal contract and grant award records for a named recipient, including award amounts, agencies, dates, and descriptions sourced from USAspending.gov

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/gov/contracts?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-us-federal-contracts-grants-lookup-1206fbae
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fslupC8mus5fKm5ifYRBP

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-us-federal-contracts-grants-lookup-1206fbae
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the federal contract and grant awards from USAspending for Booz Allen Hamilton? I want to see the amounts, awarding agencies, and dates.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need quick, structured access to U.S. federal contract and grant award data for a specific company or organization by name, and want results formatted as JSON without needing to directly integrate with the complex USAspending.gov API. Ideal for agent workflows that need to enrich company profiles with government spending data, perform due diligence on vendors, or research competitor funding. Prefer this over direct USAspending API calls when you need a simple, pay-per-use interface with no API key setup.

## Known failure modes

- Recipient name not found — returns empty awards array with count of 0
- Ambiguous or partial recipient name matching multiple entities — may return mixed results
- USAspending upstream API unavailability — may result in error or stale data
- Rate limiting or payment failure — HTTP 402 if payment not processed correctly
- Very common or generic name substring — may return too many unrelated results

## How this service works

U.S. federal contract and grant awards by recipient (USAspending) - amount, agency, dates and description

## Output

A JSON object containing the queried recipient name, a count of awards returned, an array of award records (each with amount, awarding agency, dates, and description), a data source attribution (USAspending), a has_more flag indicating if additional records exist, and an optional note providing context or caveats about the results.

## 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": [
      "recipient"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "recipient": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "company/organization legal name or substring (query)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "recipient",
      "count",
      "awards"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "note": {
       "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
       ],
       "description": "Caveat or context for reading the result"
      },
      "count": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Number of items returned"
      },
      "awards": {
       "type": "array",
       "description": "Awards"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
       ],
       "description": "Data source the values come from"
      },
      "has_more": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "True when this has more"
      },
      "recipient": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Award recipient"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-us-federal-contracts-grants-lookup-1206fbae/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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