# Stormap Brainstorm Ideas

> Stormap Brainstorm Ideas is a paid API for AI agents from stormap.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-27).

Generates a ranked list of 3-5 ideas with scored criteria and an interactive bubble map for a given topic, goal, or problem

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://stormap.ai/x402/v1/brainstorm_ideas?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-27
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/stormap-brainstorm-ideas-6e5475b2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_-u5ZymJVEaNFiPtBOHD8R

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 stormap-brainstorm-ideas-6e5475b2
```

Example prompt: Can you brainstorm 5 side hustle ideas for software engineers, scored on market size, ease to start, and profit potential — and give me the bubble map link so I can explore them visually?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quickly ranked and scored shortlist of ideas rather than a flat or unscored list. It is especially useful when the user wants a visual output (bubble map) or needs sub-ideas under top candidates (depth=2). It supports domain-specific scoring criteria (business, problem, content, etc.) making it better than a generic LLM brainstorm when structured evaluation is needed. At $0.02 per call it is cost-effective for single-shot ideation.

## Known failure modes

- 400 bad_input: topic is missing, empty, or the query parameters are invalid (e.g. count out of range 3-5, depth out of range 1-2)
- 502 model unavailable: the underlying language model is temporarily unavailable; failed calls are not charged
- Ambiguous or very short topics may produce generic or low-quality idea sets
- Unsupported mode value returns 400 bad_input

## How this service works

Use when a topic, goal, problem or question needs a quick set of ideas that are already ranked: 3-5 ideas each scored 1-10 on three criteria that fit the kind of brainstorm (business: market size, ease to start, profit potential; problem: impact, feasibility, cost), an overall score, optional sub-ideas under the top 3 (depth=2), and a link to an interactive bubble map of the result. Errors: 400 bad_input, 502 model unavailable. Failed calls are not charged.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the brainstorm mode used, topic, a list of 3-5 ideas each with per-criteria scores (1-10) and an overall score, optional sub-ideas under the top 3 ideas (if depth=2), a short summary, the scoring criteria labels, and a map_url linking to an interactive bubble map visualization of all ideas.

## 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": [
      "topic"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "mode": {
       "enum": [
        "general",
        "breakdown",
        "business",
        "content",
        "product",
        "problem",
        "learn",
        "story"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Kind of brainstorm; sets the scoring criteria (default general). breakdown splits the topic into exhaustive, non-overlapping parts with no scores."
      },
      "count": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Ideas at the top level (default 5). (integer) Range 3-5."
      },
      "depth": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "1 (default) or 2 to also grow sub-ideas under the top 3. (integer) Range 1-2."
      },
      "steer": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional constraint, e.g. \"cheap, no hardware\", \"for beginners\"."
      },
      "topic": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "What to brainstorm, e.g. \"side hustles for engineers\", \"reduce factory scrap rate\", \"YouTube channel about home cooking\"."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "mode": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "ideas": {
       "type": "array"
      },
      "topic": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "map_url": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "criteria": {
       "type": "array"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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