# The Stall — Guidance Quality Analysis (x402)

> The Stall — Guidance Quality Analysis (x402) is a paid API for AI agents from the-stall.intuitek.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.025/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Analyzes earnings guidance quality trends for a US equity ticker over multiple quarters, returning a structured assessment of how reliable and consistent management guidance has been.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://the-stall.intuitek.ai/cap/guidance-quality
- Price: $0.025/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/the-stall-guidance-quality-analysis-x402-a3d20196
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_WyC55v4mFgCxdH2K2RkVY

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 the-stall-guidance-quality-analysis-x402-a3d20196
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the guidance quality analysis for NVDA over the last 6 quarters? I want to know how reliable their earnings guidance has historically been.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, quantitative analysis of earnings guidance quality for a specific US equity over multiple quarters without needing an API key or account. Prefer this over manual analysis or generic financial data APIs when you want a pre-computed reliability score on management guidance, paid per-call with USDC via x402.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-US ticker symbol returns an error or empty result
- Ticker not covered by the data source returns no data
- Quarters parameter outside 2–8 range is rejected by schema validation
- Payment failure via x402/USDC prevents response
- Network or upstream data provider outage returns 5xx

## How this service works

Domain-agnostic x402 capability chassis by IntuiTek¹. 300 AI-callable data services — pay USDC on Base mainnet. No accounts or API keys required.

## Output

Returns a structured analysis of earnings guidance quality for the specified ticker, covering the requested number of historical quarters. Likely includes per-quarter guidance accuracy scores, trend direction, consistency metrics, and an overall reliability assessment of the company's management forecasting track record.

## 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": [
      "ticker"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "ticker": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "US equity ticker symbol (e.g. AAPL, MSFT, NVDA). Case-insensitive."
      },
      "quarters": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 8,
       "minimum": 2,
       "description": "Number of quarters to analyze (default 6, max 8)."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

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