agentutility(7)$ man research-brief
/research-brief
PRICE / CALL
$0.10
USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact
METHOD
POST
CLUSTER
webprobeCATEGORY
uncategorized
STATUS
● live
NAME
research-brief — structured research brief / company brief / entity profile / topic brief / sales-prep dossier / due-diligence summary / competitive intel…
SYNOPSIS
POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/research-brief
Content-Type: application/json
X-PAYMENT: <signed-transferWithAuthorization>
{ ... }↳ first call →
402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.DESCRIPTION
Structured research brief / company brief / entity profile / topic brief / sales-prep dossier / due-diligence summary / competitive intel / agent-readable research. Given a company, person, product, or topic, builds a fixed-shape JSON brief: overview, key_facts, recent_news (with date hints), all with source-index citations. Combines Decodo Google SERP + parallel cheerio scrape (up to 8 sources) + Morpheus llama-3.3-70b with json_schema response_format.
INPUT — request schema
| property | type | description | req? |
|---|---|---|---|
| entity_or_topic | string | Entity (company, person, product) or topic. 1-200 chars. | required |
| focus | string | Optional focus area, e.g. 'recent funding rounds'. | optional |
| max_sources | number | Max sources. Default 5, max 8. | optional |
| language | string | Two-letter language code. Default 'en'. | optional |
OUTPUT — response shape
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| entity_or_topic | string | — |
| overview | string | — |
| key_facts | string | — |
| recent_news | string | — |
| sources | string | — |
| model | string | — |
| scraped_count | string | — |
EXAMPLES — two ways to call
EXAMPLE 1 · curl
curl -X POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/research-brief \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ }'first response =
402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.EXAMPLE 2 · mcp
# Install the MCP package for this endpoint's cluster npx -y @agentutility/mcp-<cluster> # Required: EVM private key with USDC on Base export X402_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... # Then call the research-brief tool from your MCP-aware agent.
MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.
METADATA
- tags
- web-proberesearchbriefresearch-brief
- methods
- POST
- cluster
- webprobe
- price
- $0.10 USDC per call
ADJACENT — other endpoints in webprobe
| endpoint | description | price |
|---|---|---|
| domain-suggest | Brandable domain suggester / startup-name brainstormer / product-name proposer / domain candidate generator. | $0.05 |
| answer-web | Live web answer engine / Perplexity-style cited answers / question-to-answer with sources / web Q&A / agent search / research-grade Q&A /… | $0.04 |
| arxiv-summarize | arXiv paper summarizer / research-paper TLDR. | $0.04 |
| rss-from-anything | RSS feed generator / HTML to RSS converter. | $0.04 |
| scrape | Scrape any webpage. | $0.04 |
| scrape-website | Scrape any webpage. | $0.04 |
| screenshot | Website screenshot / URL to PNG/JPG. | $0.04 |
| webpage-diff | Webpage change detector / website change monitor / content diff / page-watch / visualping-style monitor / price-page monitor / status-pag… | $0.04 |
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