# Weighted Research Opportunity Comparison

> Weighted Research Opportunity Comparison is a paid API for AI agents from www.mahastrategies.com, paid per call via x402, $0.100012/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).

Ranks research opportunities against user-defined criteria using deterministic supplied-score weighting, with additive weight sensitivity analysis one criterion at a time.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/intel/research/opportunity-comparison?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.100012/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/weighted-research-opportunity-comparison-9dbe0de4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_by6sjdSqOvO3G_OuxOa2v

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 weighted-research-opportunity-comparison-9dbe0de4 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Compare these 5 research opportunities across 3 criteria — feasibility, impact, and cost — using public data, and run a sensitivity delta of 500 to show me how the ranking shifts if I change each criterion's weight.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a transparent, deterministic, auditable ranking of research opportunities against explicit weighted criteria — especially when you want to understand how sensitive the ranking is to individual criterion weights. It is not a predictive or ML-based tool, making it preferable when reproducibility and explainability of scoring logic are required. Best suited for structured multi-criteria decision analysis over up to 16 options and 12 criteria.

## Known failure modes

- Fewer than 1 or more than 16 options provided — validation error
- Fewer than 1 or more than 12 criteria provided — validation error
- sensitivityDelta outside 0–10000 range — schema validation failure
- Invalid dataClass value (not 'public' or 'synthetic') — enum validation error
- Payment not confirmed — x402 payment required response
- Malformed request body — 400 bad request

## How this service works

Deterministic supplied-score ranking and one-criterion-at-a-time additive weight sensitivity, not research prediction. New modular adapter: retained result recovery for 24 hours, minimal receipt metadata for 90 days. Existing live route unchanged.

## Output

Returns a deterministic ranked list of research options with weighted scores per criterion, plus a one-criterion-at-a-time additive sensitivity analysis showing how rankings shift when each criterion's weight is adjusted by the specified delta. Results are retained for 24 hours; minimal receipt metadata persists for 90 days.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "options": {
   "type": "array",
   "maxItems": 16,
   "minItems": 1
  },
  "criteria": {
   "type": "array",
   "maxItems": 12,
   "minItems": 1
  },
  "dataClass": {
   "enum": [
    "public",
    "synthetic"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "sensitivityDelta": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 10000,
   "minimum": 0
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/weighted-research-opportunity-comparison-9dbe0de4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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