# Zinin M2M Hub – Layoff Tracker

> Zinin M2M Hub – Layoff Tracker is a paid API for AI agents from api.timzinin.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-01).

Searches recent news for layoff mentions matching a given industry or company query, returning article counts and headlines from the last 90 days

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.timzinin.com/api/layoff-tracker?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zinin-m2m-hub-layoff-tracker-d4344249
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ql4pop7rQuOfsZNp8Z-GL

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 zinin-m2m-hub-layoff-tracker-d4344249 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you check how many layoff mentions there have been in the fintech sector over the last 90 days and show me the latest headlines?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a fast, pay-per-call lookup of recent layoff news aggregated across news sources for a specific company or industry, without maintaining your own news scraping pipeline. Ideal for agent workflows that need to monitor workforce trends on demand rather than on a scheduled basis. Prefer this over general news search APIs when the use case is specifically layoff intelligence with structured output including mention counts and dated article links.

## Known failure modes

- Query returns found:false if no layoff mentions are found for the given term in the 90-day window
- Payment not settled causes request rejection before search executes
- Ambiguous or very short query terms may return unrelated results
- Rate limiting or upstream news source unavailability may increase run_ms or return empty mentions
- Malformed POST body with missing query field returns a 4xx error

## How this service works

Pay-per-call data & tool APIs

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a meta block (run time in ms, settlement status, item count) and a results array. Each result includes a found flag, a natural-language summary (e.g. '52 layoff mentions in the last 90 days'), a checkedAt timestamp, the original sourceQuery, a mentionCount integer, and a layoffMentions array of individual articles each with a link, title, source name, and pubDate — sorted newest-first.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "queries": {
   "type": "array",
   "maxItems": 25
  },
  "sinceDays": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 365,
   "minimum": 1
  },
  "maxConcurrency": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "meta": {
   "run_ms": 1200,
   "settled": true,
   "item_count": 1
  },
  "results": [
   {
    "found": true,
    "summary": "fintech: 52 layoff mentions in the last 90d. Latest: \"Amazon Lays Off Staff in Artificial General Intelligence Division\" (Fintech Singapore, 2026-07-23).",
    "checkedAt": "2026-07-26T13:19:33.382Z",
    "sourceQuery": "fintech",
    "mentionCount": 52,
    "layoffMentions": [
     {
      "link": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiYEFVX3lxTE10Tm1LcF8zNjJSQXdCU3h0OFNPT2hRdFNaeXZ6N3ZNcVFRR1lRR0g0aE92aG9JMUhNUm40Z2V4cTZzSThJMjFhVE1zN3RpT3ZycmNHd3pTSHhLSVVSNGRnaQ?oc=5",
      "title": "Amazon Lays Off Staff in Artificial General Intelligence Division",
      "source": "Fintech Singapore",
      "pubDate": "2026-07-23T06:23:33.000Z"
     },
     {
      "link": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimAFBVV95cUxOTWQ2cjRBVDVQSlhyX3gxT3dwWDc2cjFMSUllTmxucGJReW92MW8tX09uTjRZbHRTeThxZHlnLWZ6THBWSFdCN2tfUFFhRE9naHl0TDFVRGJ4anFBZmwwVVFNU3JPajhwUnB2UG5DLWpmcVZ0YWxXUHp0Vy1ZOTZVZFpaTEh4Rm5rN08yNi1FbWVXNHM5R0pqNQ?oc=5",
      "title": "StashAway Reportedly Cuts 14% of Workforce, Sources Claim",
      "source": "Fintech Singapore",
      "pubDate": "2026-07-07T07:00:00.000Z"
     },
     "… 50 more mentions, newest-first"
    ]
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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