# TruthBear AI Compute Neocloud Distress Gauge

> TruthBear AI Compute Neocloud Distress Gauge is a paid API for AI agents from api.truthbear.co, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a 3-leg sequential distress chain for a named AI compute neocloud provider, from leading financing stress signals through current operating status to lifecycle outcome confirmation.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.truthbear.co/gauge/aicompute-region
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/truthbear-ai-compute-neocloud-distress-gauge-e78e5383
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QY0qyC5IQGrvyrIq3zAaP

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 truthbear-ai-compute-neocloud-distress-gauge-e78e5383
```

Example prompt: What's TruthBear's distress gauge reading for CoreWeave right now — how many legs of the chain are lit and has a wind-down or acquisition been confirmed?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a structured, sequential distress assessment for a specific AI compute neocloud provider based on filings and official announcements — not forecasts or opinion. Prefer it over general news search when you want a confidence-scored chain of verified signals from leading stress indicators through confirmed lifecycle outcomes. Especially useful for vendor risk, counterparty due diligence, or portfolio monitoring of neocloud operators.

## Known failure modes

- 422 no_charge returned when no data exists for the requested entity — call is not billed
- Unrecognized entity slug returns an error; valid slugs available from GET /gauge/catalog
- Partial chain confidence (e.g. only leg 1 lit) when downstream signals are absent
- Rate limiting or payment failure via x402 protocol may block the call

## How this service works

[3-LEG] AI compute neocloud chain, one provider (?entity=coreweave): leading financing distress - layoffs, lease default, funding failure -> current current operating status -> realized lifecycle to wind-down, acquisition or bankruptcy (confirmation gate). A chain, not one reading: confidence = how many legs are lit, in order. Sources: filings and official announcements. Descriptive only, never a forecast or advice. No data -> 422 no_charge, not billed. $0.25 per call.

## Output

A JSON object representing a 3-leg sequential distress chain: leg 1 covers leading signals (layoffs, lease defaults, funding failure), leg 2 reflects current operating status, and leg 3 indicates a confirmed lifecycle outcome (wind-down, acquisition, or bankruptcy). The confidence field indicates how many legs are lit in order. If no data is available, a 422 no_charge error is returned and no billing occurs.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "type": "string",
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ]
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": false,
     "properties": {
      "entity": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "required - monitored object id, paired with signal_id; free list at GET /gauge/catalog?signal_id=<signal_id> -> signals[0].entities[]",
       "examples": [
        "coreweave",
        "lambda",
        "crusoe",
        "nebius",
        "together-ai",
        "runpod"
       ],
       "x-accepted-values": {
        "shown": 6,
        "total": 20,
        "all": "https://api.truthbear.co/schemas/gauge-aicompute-region.input.json"
       }
      }
     },
     "required": [
      "entity"
     ]
    }
   },
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "queryParams"
   ]
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {}
   },
   "required": [
    "type"
   ]
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "legs": {
   "lifecycle": {
    "band": "operating",
    "source_ref": "https://www.coreweave.com/",
    "record_hash": "sha256:569e8891b86c2577a477ca128128474e7f9aa548190459a7380602ebacf5a52e"
   },
   "workload_exposure": {
    "band": "contained",
    "source_ref": "https://www.coreweave.com/",
    "record_hash": "sha256:c2ab78fde75dffe745a826214548ce3a443e1e27d51a676ed579aaa415a74820"
   },
   "financing_distress": {
    "band": "stable",
    "source_ref": "https://www.coreweave.com/",
    "record_hash": "sha256:5f9a6e0ccfbaca979425799a4cb7ea5d04c418133a77b1c07eb3c64c4b33dae9"
   }
  },
  "name": "CoreWeave",
  "grade": "screening-level, not decision-grade",
  "scope": {
   "full": "https://api.truthbear.co/scope/v1",
   "verifiability": "unknown",
   "monitoring_not_forecast": true,
   "intelligence_not_command": true
  },
  "entity": "coreweave",
  "nature": "This API supplies data organisation and trend description only. It is not a recommendation to act; the decision is yours. Purely descriptive - no judgement, no prediction. Official source plus record_hash; verify with the free /gauge/verify.",
  "provenance": {
   "freshness": "recent",
   "age_hours_now": 91,
   "freshness_basis": "cadence=default; fresh<=24h; recent<=192h; dead_source>1440h; age_basis=request-time(now minus observed_at)"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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