# SYNTHORA Vendor Decision Support

> SYNTHORA Vendor Decision Support is a paid API for AI agents from vendor-decision.hergertsynthora.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-15).

Provides AI-powered vendor decision support analyzing capability, dependency, delivery, concentration, and counterparty risk for procurement decisions

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://vendor-decision.hergertsynthora.com/service?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-vendor-decision-support-f1a219fc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_goiJJKYzpkrLDSXo6z0ak

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 synthora-vendor-decision-support-f1a219fc -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: We're evaluating two cloud vendors for our data pipeline — one is a large hyperscaler with long delivery lead times and the other is a niche specialist with strong capabilities but high concentration risk. Can you help me decide which is the safer long-term choice given our dependency on 99.9% uptime?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, multi-dimensional vendor risk analysis covering capability, delivery reliability, dependency concentration, and counterparty risk in a single call — especially when you want a confidence-scored recommendation with explicit limitations and contradictions surfaced. Prefer this over generic LLM chat for vendor decisions when you need a structured decision memo format with facts, inferences, and a recommended action that can be logged or audited.

## Known failure modes

- Vague or underspecified question with no vendor context may yield low-confidence output
- Missing evidence about vendor history or capabilities reduces decision quality
- Contradictory evidence in the input may produce flagged contradictions with no clear recommendation
- Model knowledge cutoff may limit freshness of vendor-specific data
- Network timeout or payment failure returns a 402/error with no result

## How this service works

Vendor decision support focused on capability, dependency, delivery, concentration and counterparty risk. Qwen3.8-27B; 0.005 USDC on Base.

## Output

Returns a structured JSON object containing: a decision statement, recommended action, confidence score (0-1), supporting facts, inferences drawn, known limitations of the analysis, contradictions in the evidence, data freshness indicator, and source references — giving the agent a full decision memo it can surface to the user

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "question": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Decision question with optional evidence/context"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "niche": "vendor_decision",
  "result": {
   "facts": [],
   "sources": [],
   "decision": "...",
   "freshness": "...",
   "confidence": 0,
   "inferences": [],
   "limitations": [],
   "contradictions": [],
   "recommended_action": "..."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-vendor-decision-support-f1a219fc/health.json
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