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this as legal diligence, investment diligence, compliance approval, or a claim that external facts were independently verified.","samplePayload":{"subject":"Northwind AI","subjectType":"vendor","website":"https://example.com","geography":"United States","industry":"AI workflow automation","objective":"Decide whether this vendor deserves a serious trust review before procurement or pilot planning.","knownClaims":["SOC 2 Type II claimed","Enterprise-ready deployment posture"],"knownSignals":["No public uptime history","Third-party model dependency","Growing enterprise go-to-market motion"],"questions":["Which missing proof would most change the trust decision for this vendor?"]}},{"endpoint":"agent-revenue-audit","title":"Agent Revenue Audit","path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","toolName":"create_agent_revenue_audit","price":"$5.00","whenToUse":"Use this when the buyer wants monetization help for their own agent, API, x402 service, or paid route.","doNotUseWhen":"Do not use this for investment, legal, tax, lending, compliance, trading, guaranteed revenue claims, automatic outreach, or external paid calls.","samplePayload":{"serviceName":"Example Agent API","serviceUrl":"https://example.com","buyerType":"x402-builder","currentOffer":"A pay-per-call endpoint that helps agents decide what paid route to buy first.","currentPaymentRail":"base-x402","targetBuyer":"Agent and API builders trying to monetize faster.","currentProblem":"Buyers hit the 402 challenge but do not always understand the exact paid retry path.","knownMetrics":{"visits":"413 source-tagged visits","unpaid402Challenges":"559 unpaid 402 challenges","paidCompletions":"10 paid completions","feedbackCount":"1 feedback item"},"riskTolerance":"medium","source":"docs-example"}}],"routeCloseCards":[{"endpoint":"opportunity-check","title":"Opportunity Check","path":"/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","closeQuestion":"Is this target worth any more spend?","payWhen":"Use this when you are unsure whether a 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Intel. Vague target: route down to /api/opportunity-check first."},{"endpoint":"vendor-risk","title":"Vendor Risk","path":"/api/vendor-risk","price":"$0.05","closeQuestion":"Is there a real pilot, procurement, partnership, or vendor approval decision?","payWhen":"Use this before a pilot, procurement review, partnership decision, or vendor approval.","routeDownWhen":"If the buyer is not ready for this route, use /api/opportunity-check at $0.01 first.","stopWhen":"Do not use this when you only need a cheap initial screen or when one source claim is the only blocker.","buyerFacingCopy":"Pay $0.05 only when this route matches the buyer's current blocker; otherwise route down before spending."},{"endpoint":"deep-diligence","title":"Deep Diligence","path":"/api/deep-diligence","price":"$0.50","closeQuestion":"Could missing evidence change a serious decision?","payWhen":"Use this when missing evidence could change a real decision and the buyer needs a structured verification map.","routeDownWhen":"If the buyer is not ready for this route, use /api/company-intel at $0.05 first.","stopWhen":"Do not use this as legal diligence, investment diligence, compliance approval, or a claim that external facts were independently verified.","buyerFacingCopy":"Pay $0.50 only when a proof gap could change a real decision. Otherwise use a core route first."},{"endpoint":"agent-revenue-audit","title":"Agent Revenue Audit","path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","price":"$5.00","closeQuestion":"Does the buyer operate an agent, API, x402 route, or paid service that needs revenue guidance?","payWhen":"Use this when the buyer wants monetization help for their own agent, API, x402 service, or paid route.","routeDownWhen":"If the buyer is not ready for this route, use /api/agentic-market-watch at $0.01 first.","stopWhen":"Do not use this for investment, legal, tax, lending, compliance, trading, guaranteed revenue claims, automatic outreach, or external paid calls.","buyerFacingCopy":"Pay $5.00 only for builder/operator monetization help. If the buyer only wants to test x402, start at /api/opportunity-check."}],"copyPastePayloads":{"opportunityCheck":"{\n  \"subject\": \"Agent trust scoring for crypto vendors\",\n  \"buyer\": \"Crypto fund operator\",\n  \"marketType\": \"vendor\",\n  \"geography\": \"United States\",\n  \"goal\": \"Decide whether this topic is strong enough to package into a deeper diligence offer.\",\n  \"knownSignals\": [\n    \"Operators keep asking for a faster first-pass trust screen before pilots\",\n    \"Funds want a lightweight way to compare agent vendors before deeper diligence\"\n  ],\n  \"constraints\": [\n    \"Keep the first offer lightweight\",\n    \"Do not assume the buyer already trusts agent vendors\"\n  ]\n}","companyIntel":"{\n  \"companyName\": \"Alpine Foods\",\n  \"website\": \"https://example.com\",\n  \"industry\": \"Food distribution\",\n  \"geography\": \"United States\",\n  \"researchFocus\": \"growth\",\n  \"knownClaims\": [\n    \"Regional specialty food distributor\",\n    \"Expanding private-label program\"\n  ],\n  \"knownSignals\": [\n    \"Hiring for operations and sales\",\n    \"Launching new product categories\"\n  ],\n  \"questions\": [\n    \"How concentrated is demand around a few buyers?\",\n    \"What trust signals matter most to partners?\"\n  ]\n}","vendorRisk":"{\n  \"vendorName\": \"Northwind AI\",\n  \"website\": \"https://example.com\",\n  \"serviceCategory\": \"AI workflow automation\",\n  \"useCase\": \"Automate intake triage and case routing for an operations team.\",\n  \"dataSensitivity\": \"high\",\n  \"criticality\": \"high\",\n  \"geography\": \"United States\",\n  \"knownControls\": [\n    \"SOC 2 Type II claimed\",\n    \"SSO and role-based access controls\"\n  ],\n  \"knownConcerns\": [\n    \"No published uptime history\",\n    \"Third-party model dependency\"\n  ],\n  \"questions\": [\n    \"What is the rollback plan if the workflow misroutes tasks?\"\n  ]\n}"},"expectedFlow":["Send an unpaid POST if the buyer needs to inspect the payment challenge.","Treat HTTP 402 as expected paywall behavior, not an outage.","Use a buyer-controlled x402 client and wallet on Base mainnet.","Retry the exact same POST after payment and expect HTTP 200.","Use the paid response's commercial plan before buying another route."],"guardrails":["Examples do not include secrets, wallet keys, or private buyer data.","Examples do not run a paid purchase automatically from the public page.","Base mainnet remains the only accepted production settlement rail.","Public examples remain synthetic and do not expose buyer-level history."]},"firstPaidCallWizard":{"name":"First Paid Call Wizard","path":"/first-paid-call","apiPath":"/api/first-paid-call-wizard","mode":"public-first-buy-routing","input":{"goal":"unsure","seriousness":"cheap-test","hasNamedTarget":false},"recommendation":{"endpoint":"opportunity-check","title":"Opportunity 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assume the buyer already trusts agent vendors"]}},"buyerDecision":{"closeQuestion":"Is this target worth any more spend?","payWhen":"Use this when you are unsure whether a target or claim deserves more paid work.","doNotPayWhen":"Do not use this when you already know the blocker and need a company snapshot, vendor review, claim check, lead brief, or premium diligence map.","ifUnsure":"Start with /api/opportunity-check or call /api/conversion-route before paying."},"payment":{"method":"POST","url":"https://apexscout.ai/api/opportunity-check","listedPrice":"$0.01","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"10000","network":"eip155:8453","facilitator":"https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"expectedPaidStatus":200,"samePayloadRequired":true},"copyPaste":{"payload":{"subject":"Agent trust scoring for crypto vendors","buyer":"Crypto fund operator","marketType":"vendor","geography":"United States","goal":"Decide whether this topic is strong enough to package into a deeper 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buyer already trusts agent vendors\"\n  ]\n}'","paidRetryAwalCommand":"npx awal@2.8.0 x402 pay \"https://apexscout.ai/api/opportunity-check\" \\\n  -X POST \\\n  -h '{\"Content-Type\":\"application/json\"}' \\\n  -d '{\n  \"subject\": \"Agent trust scoring for crypto vendors\",\n  \"buyer\": \"Crypto fund operator\",\n  \"marketType\": \"vendor\",\n  \"geography\": \"United States\",\n  \"goal\": \"Decide whether this topic is strong enough to package into a deeper diligence offer.\",\n  \"knownSignals\": [\n    \"Operators keep asking for a faster first-pass trust screen before pilots\",\n    \"Funds want a lightweight way to compare agent vendors before deeper diligence\"\n  ],\n  \"constraints\": [\n    \"Keep the first offer lightweight\",\n    \"Do not assume the buyer already trusts agent vendors\"\n  ]\n}' \\\n  --max-amount 10000 \\\n  --json","commandNotes":["Run the unpaid probe first if the buyer agent needs to inspect the 402 challenge.","Run the paid retry only from a buyer-controlled wallet runtime.","The command pays at most the listed route price and expects HTTP 200 JSON after payment."]},"smallRisk":{"name":"Payment Intent Preview","riskLevel":"small","whyItHelps":"Future buyer agents can prepare the exact paid retry from a machine-readable object instead of guessing route, payload, price, or max spend.","executesPayment":false,"productionRailChange":false,"endpointPathChange":false,"publicDataLevel":"aggregate-safe; no prompts, wallets, raw feedback, or paid response bodies"},"guardrails":["This preview does not execute payment.","This preview does not change Base mainnet, facilitator, seller wallet, endpoint paths, or prices.","This preview does not expose buyer prompts, wallet-level history, raw feedback, or paid response bodies."]},"copyPastePaidRetry":"npx awal@2.8.0 x402 pay \"https://apexscout.ai/api/opportunity-check\" \\\n  -X POST \\\n  -h '{\"Content-Type\":\"application/json\"}' \\\n  -d '{\n  \"subject\": \"Agent trust scoring for crypto vendors\",\n  \"buyer\": \"Crypto fund operator\",\n  \"marketType\": \"vendor\",\n  \"geography\": \"United States\",\n  \"goal\": \"Decide whether this topic is strong enough to package into a deeper diligence offer.\",\n  \"knownSignals\": [\n    \"Operators keep asking for a faster first-pass trust screen before pilots\",\n    \"Funds want a lightweight way to compare agent vendors before deeper diligence\"\n  ],\n  \"constraints\": [\n    \"Keep the first offer lightweight\",\n    \"Do not assume the buyer already trusts agent vendors\"\n  ]\n}' \\\n  --max-amount 10000 \\\n  --json","nextRouteIfUseful":{"endpoint":"company-intel","title":"Company Intel","path":"/api/company-intel","toolName":"create_company_intel","price":"$0.05","whenToUse":"Use this for a quick company snapshot before outreach, approval, or a deeper trust review.","doNotUseWhen":"Do not use this when the blocker is a single claim, a vendor-control question, or a decision that hinges on missing proof.","samplePayload":{"companyName":"Alpine Foods","website":"https://example.com","industry":"Food distribution","geography":"United States","researchFocus":"growth","knownClaims":["Regional specialty food distributor","Expanding private-label program"],"knownSignals":["Hiring for operations and sales","Launching new product categories"],"questions":["How concentrated is demand around a few buyers?","What trust signals matter most to partners?"]}},"why":"This is the cheapest useful first paid test when the buyer is not sure the target deserves more spend.","paymentPath":["Inspect the recommendation and sample payload.","Send the selected POST route without payment if you need to inspect the expected HTTP 402 challenge.","Pay the listed route price with a buyer-controlled x402 client on Base mainnet.","Retry the exact same POST and expect HTTP 200 with structured JSON."],"guardrails":["This wizard does not execute payment.","This wizard does not change payment rails, facilitator, seller wallet, endpoint paths, or prices.","This wizard does not expose buyer prompts, wallet-level history, or paid response bodies publicly."],"links":{"examples":"https://apexscout.ai/examples","docsJson":"https://apexscout.ai/docs.json","instantX402":"https://apexscout.ai/instant-x402","dashboard":"https://apexscout.ai/dashboard"}},"firstCallClosePlan":[{"route":"/api/opportunity-check","title":"Opportunity Check","price":"$0.01","unpaid402Challenges":0,"paidCompletions":0,"unpaidGap":0,"paymentCompletionRate":"0%","closeQuestion":"Is this target worth any more spend?","recommendedClose":"Pay $0.01 and retry this exact POST when the buyer only needs the cheapest first signal.","routeDownPath":null,"routeDownPrice":null,"exactRetrySteps":["Retry POST /api/opportunity-check with the same JSON body.","Use x402 on eip155:8453 through the configured facilitator.","Pay $0.01 only if the close question is true.","Expect HTTP 200 with structured JSON after payment 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Vague target: route down to /api/opportunity-check first.","routeDownPath":"/api/opportunity-check","routeDownPrice":"$0.01","exactRetrySteps":["Retry POST /api/company-intel with the same JSON body.","Use x402 on eip155:8453 through the configured facilitator.","Pay $0.05 only if the close question is true.","Expect HTTP 200 with structured JSON after payment verifies."],"buyerFacingCopy":"Company Intel: pay $0.05 if this exact route can change the next action; otherwise use /api/opportunity-check first.","operatorMove":"Keep /api/company-intel visible, but do not add friction while paid completions are keeping pace.","publicSafe":true},{"route":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","title":"Agent Revenue Audit","price":"$5.00","unpaid402Challenges":0,"paidCompletions":0,"unpaidGap":0,"paymentCompletionRate":"0%","closeQuestion":"Does the buyer operate an agent, API, x402 route, or paid service that needs revenue guidance?","recommendedClose":"Pay $5.00 only for builder/operator monetization help. If the buyer only wants to test x402, start at /api/opportunity-check.","routeDownPath":"/api/agentic-market-watch","routeDownPrice":"$0.01","exactRetrySteps":["Retry POST /api/agent-revenue-audit with the same JSON body.","Use x402 on eip155:8453 through the configured facilitator.","Pay $5.00 only if the close question is true.","Expect HTTP 200 with structured JSON after payment verifies."],"buyerFacingCopy":"Agent Revenue Audit: pay $5.00 if this exact route can change the next action; otherwise use /api/agentic-market-watch first.","operatorMove":"Keep /api/agent-revenue-audit visible, but do not add friction while paid completions are keeping pace.","publicSafe":true}],"conversionAlertPolicy":{"mode":"aggregate-only-conversion-alerts","publicSafe":true,"watches":["unpaid 402 pressure","paid 200 completions","route-level friction","advisor-before-payment coverage","actual errors"],"hiddenData":["buyer prompts","wallet-level history","paid response bodies","raw feedback comments","recent buyer subjects"]}},"buyerAgentChallenge":{"name":"ApexScout Buyer-Agent Challenge","version":"v2.2.81-brand-asset-integration","purpose":"Let an authorized buyer agent self-serve one x402 route test without ApexScout contacting anyone.","liveMode":{"mode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","statement":"ApexScout is in zero-contact live mode. Buyer agents may self-serve through this challenge; ApexScout does not DM, post, email, scrape, discover third-party agents, or manually message people.","inboundOnly":true,"noOutreach":true,"noScraping":true,"noThirdPartyDiscovery":true,"noFakeTraction":true},"tenSecondBrief":{"audience":"Authorized buyer agents and their human operators.","task":"Generate a free Agent Spend Passport, then make one buyer-controlled x402 paid call only if the Passport recommends it.","maxSpend":"$0.01","expectedResult":"Unpaid HTTP 402 first, then paid HTTP 200 with JSON.","reportBack":"Record whether paid JSON was received and where the self-serve flow got stuck if it failed."},"passportFirstCta":"Not sure what to buy? Generate a free Agent Spend Passport before paying.","passportExplanation":"The Passport does not spend money. It recommends the right route, checks budget fit, warns about sensitive fields, and gives a safe copy-paste paid-call payload.","passportFirstBuyerPath":["Inspect /x402-proof.","Generate a free /agent-spend-passport.","If the Passport recommends the $5 audit, preview /agent-revenue-audit-preview before paying.","Run the free /x402-metadata-preflight before any paid retry if the buyer metadata includes a resource URL, payment description, reason string, or payload preview.","If Passport recommends /api/opportunity-check, use the $0.01 route.","If Passport recommends /api/agent-revenue-audit, use the $5 route only with approved budget.","Stop if Passport says stop."],"agentCommercePositioning":{"headline":"AI agents can pay per API call, but the safe path starts with a free Passport.","statement":"ApexScout is packaged for machine-to-machine commerce: a buyer agent can inspect a route, receive HTTP 402 payment requirements, check budget and privacy risk, then make a buyer-controlled x402 payment only when the Passport says it is safe to proceed.","proofLabel":"Machine-to-machine commerce ready","proofPoints":["ApexScout exposes x402-paid API routes with machine-readable HTTP 402 requirements.","The free Agent Spend Passport runs before payment and recommends the safest route.","Buyer agents get a maxAmountAtomicUnits value before any paid retry.","The $0.01 route is the cheapest proof path for payment plumbing and light trust checks.","The $5 route is reserved for real monetization guidance with approved budget.","Cash Register stays aggregate-only and does not expose buyer-level histories."],"buyerControlledBoundary":["ApexScout does not auto-spend for the buyer.","ApexScout does not manage the buyer wallet.","ApexScout does not make paid upstream calls.","The buyer agent must follow its operator-approved budget cap.","The buyer agent must stop if the Passport says stop."]},"buyerAgentPrompts":[{"id":"proof-route","label":"Cheapest proof route","prompt":"Use ApexScout's free Agent Spend Passport to decide whether I should run the cheapest x402 proof. My max budget is $0.01. Stop if the request is unsafe or over budget.","expectedRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","maxBudgetUsd":"0.01"},{"id":"builder-audit-route","label":"$5 builder audit route","prompt":"Use ApexScout's free Agent Spend Passport to decide whether a $5 Agent Revenue Audit fits this monetization, pricing, route ladder, and x402 conversion request. Stop if budget, privacy, or policy checks fail.","expectedRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","maxBudgetUsd":"5.00"},{"id":"stop-route","label":"Stop before payment","prompt":"Use ApexScout's free Agent Spend Passport and stop before payment if the request is vague, asks for legal, tax, investment, lending, compliance, or trading advice, includes secrets, or asks for scraping or outreach.","expectedRoute":"stop","maxBudgetUsd":"0.00"}],"paymentRail":{"protocol":"x402","network":"eip155:8453","rail":"Base mainnet"},"recommendedFirstPaidCall":{"method":"POST","path":"/api/opportunity-check","url":"https://apexscout.ai/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"10000","contentType":"application/json","payload":{"subject":"External buyer-agent x402 test","goal":"Confirm this buyer agent can complete one x402 paid call and receive JSON.","buyerType":"buyer-agent","source":"external-buyer-agent-test-001"},"expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"expectedPaidStatus":200},"links":{"x402Proof":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-proof","x402ProofApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-proof","agentSpendPassport":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-spend-passport","agentSpendPassportApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport","agentSpendPassportPrepareApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport/prepare","mcpToolPack":"https://apexscout.ai/mcp-tool-pack","mcpToolPackApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/mcp-tool-pack","cashRegister":"https://apexscout.ai/api/cash-register"},"optionalHigherValueCall":{"method":"POST","path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","price":"$5.00","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"5000000","whenToUse":"Only if the buyer wants monetization guidance for its own agent/API/tool."},"hubSpotAgentReadiness":{"path":"/hubspot-agent-readiness","apiPath":"/api/hubspot-agent-readiness","positioning":"External x402 trust and monetization intelligence API for HubSpot-oriented agent builders and buyer agents.","note":"HubSpot-oriented builders can evaluate ApexScout as an external x402 trust and monetization API. This release does not connect to HubSpot CRM or use HubSpot OAuth."},"successCriteria":["Unpaid request returns HTTP 402.","Paid retry succeeds.","Paid response returns JSON.","PAYMENT-RESPONSE header is present if visible to client."],"failureFeedbackRequested":["Could not parse 402 payment requirements.","Wallet not authenticated.","Budget too low.","Payment authorized but rejected.","Paid response unclear.","Other."],"copyPaste":{"unpaidCurl":"curl -i -X POST \"https://apexscout.ai/api/opportunity-check\" \\\n  -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n  --data '{\n  \"subject\": \"External buyer-agent x402 test\",\n  \"goal\": \"Confirm this buyer agent can complete one x402 paid call and receive JSON.\",\n  \"buyerType\": \"buyer-agent\",\n  \"source\": \"external-buyer-agent-test-001\"\n}'","buyerAgentPaidCommand":"npx awal@latest x402 pay \"https://apexscout.ai/api/opportunity-check\" \\\n  -X POST \\\n  -h '{\"Content-Type\":\"application/json\"}' \\\n  -d '{\"subject\":\"External buyer-agent x402 test\",\"goal\":\"Confirm this buyer agent can complete one x402 paid call and receive JSON.\",\"buyerType\":\"buyer-agent\",\"source\":\"external-buyer-agent-test-001\"}' \\\n  --max-amount 10000 \\\n  --json","maxSpendWarning":"Only run the paid command from a buyer-controlled wallet after the operator approves a $0.01 cap."},"reportBackTemplate":{"received402":"yes/no","paidRetryAttempted":"yes/no","paidJsonReceived":"yes/no","paymentResponseHeaderVisible":"yes/no/unknown","stuckAt":"402 parsing | wallet auth | budget cap | payment retry | response clarity | other","notes":""},"faq":[{"question":"What is ApexScout?","answer":"ApexScout is a pay-per-call trust and diligence API for AI agents and operators deciding whether a target or paid route deserves more spend."},{"question":"Do I need a wallet?","answer":"Yes. A buyer agent needs an x402-capable wallet with enough Base USDC for the operator-approved budget cap."},{"question":"What does the $0.01 route prove?","answer":"It proves the buyer can read the HTTP 402 requirements, authorize the x402 payment, retry the request, and receive paid JSON."},{"question":"What is the $5 route for?","answer":"The Agent Revenue Audit is for monetization guidance on the buyer's own agent, API, or tool. Do not buy it just to test payment plumbing."},{"question":"What should I report if it fails?","answer":"Report the first point that blocked the flow: 402 parsing, wallet auth, budget cap, payment retry, or response clarity."},{"question":"What if payment was authorized but failed?","answer":"Do not retry repeatedly. 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Only consider Circle marketplace submission, Circle CLI setup, or Circle Gateway work in a separate owner-approved pass."},"agenticPaymentsMarketSignal":{"name":"ApexScout Agentic Payments Market Signal","version":"v2.2.81-brand-asset-integration","mode":"market-context-owned-surface","liveMode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","observedSignal":{"source":"Token Terminal","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/tokenterminal/status/2053895358405652592","observedDate":"2026-05-11","quotedClaim":"Token Terminal described roughly 180k monthly active agents transacting onchain, mostly on Solana and Base, and framed the market as still early.","chartTitle":"Agentic payments. Stablecoin activity initiated by AI agents on the x402 protocol."},"chartRead":{"monthlyActiveAgenticSenders":177489,"monthlyActiveAgenticSendersLabel":"~177.5k","ninetyDayAgenticTransferVolumeUsd":"$6.4M","ninetyDayAgenticTransferVolumeChange":"-75.7%","ninetyDayTransferCount":"18.4M","ninetyDayTransferCountChange":"-36.1%","baseTransferVolumeUsd":"$5.7M","solanaTransferVolumeUsd":"$466.4K","polygonTransferVolumeUsd":"$277.3K","baseTransferCount":"6.1M","solanaTransferCount":"2.9M","polygonTransferCount":"9.3M","latestActiveSenders":{"solana":"114.5K","base":"63.0K","polygon":"70"},"latestAverageTransferValue":{"solana":"$0.2892","base":"$0.1693","polygon":"$0.01"}},"interpretation":{"marketContextOnly":true,"apexScoutTractionClaim":false,"revenueClaim":false,"reasonItMatters":"The signal supports the idea that buyer-agent payments are real enough to package for, while still early enough that clear seller metadata, 402 challenges, and payment proof matter.","carefulLanguage":"Use this as agentic-payments market context. Do not claim Token Terminal measured ApexScout, endorsed ApexScout, or proved ApexScout demand."},"apexScoutTieIn":{"currentProductionRail":"Base mainnet x402","x402Network":"eip155:8453","sellerSideRole":"ApexScout is a seller-side paid API that buyer agents can inspect, challenge with HTTP 402, and retry with buyer-controlled x402 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scraping or outreach.","No paid calls.","No fake traffic, feedback, paid completions, or revenue.","No buyer-level public data.","No settlement rail change.","No seller wallet change."],"privacy":{"publicMetrics":"aggregate-only","buyerLevelDataPublic":false,"buyerPromptsPublic":false,"walletHistoriesPublic":false,"paidResponsesPublic":false,"rawFeedbackPublic":false}},"mcpToolPack":{"name":"ApexScout MCP Tool Pack","version":"v2.2.81-brand-asset-integration","brand":{"name":"ApexScout","legalProductName":"ApexScout / Agent Research Desk","tagline":"Agent Spend Passport and x402 trust intelligence for buyer agents.","description":"Agent Spend Passport and x402 trust intelligence for buyer agents.","logoAlt":"ApexScout official 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It does not crawl, contact, message, post, scrape, discover third-party agents, or make paid upstream calls.","inboundOnly":true,"noOutreach":true,"noScraping":true,"noThirdPartyDiscovery":true,"noFakeTraction":true},"payment":{"protocol":"x402","network":"eip155:8453","rail":"Base mainnet","baseX402Active":true,"settlementRailChanged":false,"batchSettlementReadiness":{"activeInProduction":false,"pagePath":"/x402-batch-settlement","apiPath":"/api/x402-batch-settlement","escrowEnabled":false,"offChainVouchersAccepted":false,"facilitatorSponsoredGasClaimed":false,"sellerWalletChanged":false,"note":"Batch settlement is readiness metadata only. ApexScout still uses standard buyer-controlled x402 payment per paid request."}},"recommendedNoSpendPreflight":{"name":"apexscout_agent_spend_passport_prepare","method":"POST","path":"/api/agent-spend-passport/prepare","pagePath":"/agent-spend-passport","apiPath":"/api/agent-spend-passport","price":"free","beforePaidRoutes":true,"cta":"Not sure what to buy? Generate a free Agent Spend Passport before paying.","explanation":"The Passport does not spend money. It recommends the right route, checks budget fit, warns about sensitive fields, and gives a safe copy-paste paid-call payload.","buyerPath":["Inspect /x402-proof.","Generate a free /agent-spend-passport.","If the Passport recommends the $5 audit, preview /agent-revenue-audit-preview before paying.","Run the free /x402-metadata-preflight before any paid retry if the buyer metadata includes a resource URL, payment description, reason string, or payload preview.","If Passport recommends /api/opportunity-check, use the $0.01 route.","If Passport recommends /api/agent-revenue-audit, use the $5 route only with approved budget.","Stop if Passport says stop."]},"x402MetadataPreflight":{"name":"apexscout_x402_metadata_preflight_check","method":"POST","path":"/api/x402-metadata-preflight/check","pagePath":"/x402-metadata-preflight","apiPath":"/api/x402-metadata-preflight","price":"free","recommendedBeforePaidRetry":true,"purpose":"Classify and redact x402 resource URLs, payment descriptions, reason strings, and payload previews before a buyer-controlled paid retry.","rawPayloadsReturned":false,"buyerLevelDataExposed":false,"paidCallsMade":false,"paidUpstreamCalls":false},"agentRevenueAuditPreview":{"name":"apexscout_agent_revenue_audit_preview","method":"GET","path":"/agent-revenue-audit-preview","apiPath":"/api/agent-revenue-audit-preview","price":"free","routePreviewed":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","recommendedBeforePaidRoute":true,"cta":"Considering the $5 audit? 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claims are explicitly not made."},"paymentGateExpectations":{"opportunityCheck":{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"price":"$0.01","amountAtomicUnits":"10000","network":"eip155:8453"},"agentRevenueAudit":{"path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"price":"$5.00","amountAtomicUnits":"5000000","network":"eip155:8453"}},"guardrails":["Zero-contact and inbound-only.","No scraping or third-party endpoint discovery.","No posts, DMs, emails, manual messages, or contact campaigns.","No paid calls or paid upstream calls from this packet.","No fake traffic, fake feedback, or fake paid completions.","No settlement rail change.","No seller wallet change.","No batch settlement, escrow, off-chain voucher acceptance, or facilitator-sponsored gas claim.","No raw x402 resource URLs, reason strings, payload previews, full wallet addresses, secrets, or buyer-level metadata should be sent before the free metadata preflight passes.","No official AWS, Coinbase, or Stripe endorsement claim.","No official standards-body endorsement claim.","No guaranteed revenue claim.","No buyer wallet custody, buyer budget management, or automatic paid retry.","No regulated compliance enforcement claim.","No investment, legal, tax, compliance, lending, or trading advice.","No buyer-level public data."],"note":"ApexScout turns public x402, MCP, AgentCore, Bazaar, network, ERC-20, Stripe MPP, privacy, and policy-control signals into safe owned metadata without changing payment rails or exposing buyer-level data."},"x402BatchSettlementReadiness":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-batch-settlement","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-batch-settlement","mode":"readiness-only-no-spend","sourceSignal":{"source":"Coinbase Developer Platform x402 batch settlement update","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/CoinbaseDev/status/2054241284651676074","detailUrl":"https://x.com/Jnix2007/status/2054233052872872194","observedCapability":"x402 batch settlement lets agents use off-chain vouchers and one final settlement instead of settling every API call individually.","apexScoutInterpretation":"This is useful future infrastructure for high-volume buyer agents, but ApexScout should not change its live rail until facilitator, seller, privacy, and accounting behavior are explicitly approved."},"currentProductionBoundary":{"activeRail":"Base mainnet x402","network":"eip155:8453","baseX402Active":true,"facilitator":"https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402","firstPaidRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","firstPaidRoutePrice":"$0.01","builderMonetizationRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","builderMonetizationRoutePrice":"$5.00","batchSettlementEnabled":false,"escrowEnabled":false,"offChainVouchersAccepted":false,"facilitatorSponsoredGasEnabled":false,"settlementRailChanged":false,"sellerWalletChanged":false,"automaticBuyerSpendingAdded":false,"paidCallsMadeByThisSurface":false,"paidUpstreamCalls":false},"buyerAgentGuidance":{"recommendedFirstStep":"/agent-spend-passport","normalLowVolumeFlow":["Inspect /x402-proof.","Generate a free /agent-spend-passport.","Use /api/opportunity-check for the $0.01 proof route when the buyer only needs a cheap rail test.","Use /api/agent-revenue-audit for the $5 builder monetization route only with approved budget.","Stop if Passport says stop."],"batchSettlementPosition":"Batch settlement is future compatibility context. Do not assume ApexScout accepts vouchers or escrowed batch payment today."},"guardrails":["No paid calls are made by this readiness surface.","No escrow, voucher acceptance, or batch settlement is enabled.","No facilitator-sponsored gas claim is made for ApexScout production traffic.","No settlement rail or seller wallet change is made.","No buyer wallet custody, buyer budget management, or automatic buyer spending is added.","No buyer-level data, full wallet addresses, full payment payloads, voucher histories, or paid response bodies are public.","No revenue, conversion, endorsement, compliance, legal, tax, investment, lending, or trading guarantee is made.","No scraping, posting, DMs, email, outreach, third-party discovery, fake traffic, or fake feedback is added."],"note":"ApexScout is aware of x402 batch settlement, but batch settlement, escrow, voucher acceptance, seller wallet changes, and rail changes are not enabled."},"agentSafetyPosture":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-safety-posture","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-safety-posture","mode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","controlScore":{"implemented":6,"possible":6,"status":"owned-safety-surface"},"productionBoundary":{"activeRail":"Base mainnet x402","protocol":"x402","network":"eip155:8453","baseX402Active":true,"facilitator":"https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402","firstPaidRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","firstPaidRoutePrice":"$0.01","firstPaidRouteAmountAtomicUnits":"10000","builderMonetizationRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","builderMonetizationRoutePrice":"$5.00","builderMonetizationRouteAmountAtomicUnits":"5000000","paidCallsMadeByThisPage":false,"paidUpstreamCallsAdded":false,"settlementRailChanged":false,"sellerWalletChanged":false,"automaticBuyerSpendingAdded":false},"guardrails":["Inbound-only","Zero-contact mode","No scraping","No third-party discovery","No outreach automation","No manual messages, posts, DMs, or emails","No paid calls by this readiness surface","No paid upstream calls","No fake traffic, fake feedback, or fake paid completions","No buyer-level public data","No partner or endorsement claim is made","No investment, legal, tax, trading, or revenue guarantee advice"],"privacy":{"publicMetrics":"aggregate-only","aggregateOnly":true,"buyerLevelDataPublic":false,"buyerPromptsPublic":false,"paidResponsesPublic":false,"walletHistoriesPublic":false,"rawFeedbackPublic":false,"fullWalletAddressesPublic":false,"fullPaymentPayloadsPublic":false,"cdpKeysPublic":false},"note":"ApexScout publishes a no-spend safety posture so buyer agents can inspect boundaries, approval gates, credential privacy, and audit-safe aggregate metrics before paid x402 retries."},"agentWonderlandReadiness":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-wonderland-readiness","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-wonderland-readiness","mode":"readiness-only-owned-surface","liveMode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","readyForAgentWonderlandStyleDiscovery":true,"packageName":"@agentwonderland/mcp","packageVersionObserved":"0.1.46","firstPaidRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","builderMonetizationRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","agentWonderlandPackageInstalled":false,"agentWonderlandSetupRun":false,"listingSubmitted":false,"openWalletConnected":false,"stripeConnectAdded":false,"mppSettlementEnabled":false,"tokenActionTaken":false,"settlementRailChanged":false,"sellerWalletChanged":false,"guardrails":["Readiness-only owned surface.","Zero-contact and inbound-only.","No Agent Wonderland package install or setup command.","No Agent Wonderland listing submission.","No OpenWallet connection.","No MPP, Stripe Connect, Solana, or Tempo settlement enabled by ApexScout.","No token purchase, token recommendation, token-gated route, or treasury action.","No paid calls or paid upstream calls.","No scraping, third-party discovery, endpoint scanning, or lead harvesting.","No posts, DMs, emails, manual messages, or contact campaigns.","No official Agent Wonderland, AWS, Coinbase, Stripe, Base, Solana, Tempo, or OpenWallet endorsement claim.","No guaranteed revenue claim.","No buyer-level public data.","No settlement rail change.","No seller wallet change."],"note":"ApexScout is ready for Agent Wonderland-style discovery through owned MCP and x402 surfaces only; no package setup, listing, wallet change, Stripe Connect, MPP, Solana, Tempo, or token action is performed by ApexScout."},"circleAgentStackReadiness":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/circle-agent-stack-readiness","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/circle-agent-stack-readiness","mode":"readiness-only-owned-surface","liveMode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","readyForCircleAgentStackStyleBuyers":true,"firstPaidRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","builderMonetizationRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","circleAgentWalletCreatedByApexScout":false,"circleCliInstalled":false,"circleSkillsInstalled":false,"circleGatewayNanopaymentsEnabled":false,"circleMarketplaceSubmitted":false,"circleWalletCustodyAdded":false,"circleWalletFundingAdded":false,"settlementRailChanged":false,"sellerWalletChanged":false,"guardrails":["Readiness-only owned surface.","Zero-contact and inbound-only.","No Circle Agent Wallet creation, funding, custody, or wallet management by ApexScout.","No Circle CLI command run and no Circle Skill installed.","No Circle Gateway nanopayment integration or settlement rail switch.","No Circle Agent Marketplace submission.","No official Circle endorsement, partnership, listing, or approval claim.","No paid calls or paid upstream calls.","No scraping, third-party discovery, endpoint scanning, or lead harvesting.","No posts, DMs, emails, manual messages, or contact campaigns.","No fake traffic, fake feedback, or fake paid completions.","No guaranteed revenue claim.","No buyer-level public data.","No settlement rail change.","No seller wallet change."],"privacy":{"publicMetrics":"aggregate-only","buyerLevelDataPublic":false,"buyerPromptsPublic":false,"walletHistoriesPublic":false,"paidResponsesPublic":false,"rawFeedbackPublic":false,"fullWalletAddressesPublic":false,"fullPaymentPayloadsPublic":false},"note":"ApexScout is ready for Circle Agent Stack-style paid API buyers through owned x402, MCP, and proof surfaces only; no Circle wallet, CLI, Skill, Gateway nanopayment, marketplace submission, or endorsement claim is performed by ApexScout."},"agenticPaymentsMarketSignal":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/agentic-payments-market-signal","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agentic-payments-market-signal","mode":"market-context-owned-surface","source":"Token Terminal","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/tokenterminal/status/2053895358405652592","monthlyActiveAgenticSenders":"~177.5k","marketContextOnly":true,"apexScoutTractionClaim":false,"revenueClaim":false,"note":"The Token Terminal chart is useful market context for agentic payments and Base, but it is not an ApexScout traction, endorsement, or revenue claim."},"whyApexScoutAgenticPayments":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/why-apexscout-agentic-payments","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/why-apexscout-agentic-payments","mode":"public-positioning-owned-surface","headline":"ApexScout is already shaped like an agent-paid API: inspect, challenge, pay once, get JSON once.","bestMachineRead":"/api/why-apexscout-agentic-payments","primaryBuilderRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","guardrails":["No Token Terminal endorsement claim.","No ApexScout traction claim from this chart.","No guaranteed revenue claim.","No third-party scraping or outreach.","No paid calls.","No fake traffic, feedback, paid completions, or revenue.","No buyer-level public data.","No settlement rail change.","No seller wallet change."]},"conversionClose":{"mode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","primaryRoute":{"label":"Agent Revenue Audit","page":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-revenue-audit","paymentIntent":"https://apexscout.ai/payment-intent?route=agent-revenue-audit&src=conversion-close","path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","price":"$5.00","amountAtomicUnits":"5000000","network":"eip155:8453","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"expectedPaidStatus":200,"paymentModel":"Pay once, get JSON once."},"qualifierRoute":{"label":"Opportunity Check","path":"/api/opportunity-check","page":"https://apexscout.ai/first-paid-call?route=opportunity-check&src=conversion-close","price":"$0.01","amountAtomicUnits":"10000","network":"eip155:8453","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"role":"Use this only when the buyer wants the cheapest payment proof before considering the $5 audit."},"buyerQuestion":"Will this help me turn my agent, API, MCP tool, or x402 route into paid demand?","whyBuyNow":["You already have an agent, API, MCP tool, or x402 service and need a sharper paid offer.","You are seeing 402 pressure, page visits, or buyer questions but not enough paid retries.","You need route pricing, first paid action, and buyer-agent retry instructions in one JSON response."],"notFor":["Investment, legal, tax, lending, compliance, trading, or guaranteed revenue decisions.","Buyers who only need to test payment plumbing; use the $0.01 Opportunity Check instead.","Anyone expecting ApexScout to scrape leads, contact people, inspect third-party domains, or make paid upstream calls."],"guardrails":["Zero-contact and inbound-only.","No posts, DMs, emails, manual messages, or contact campaigns.","No scraping, third-party discovery, endpoint scanning, or lead harvesting.","No paid calls, paid upstream calls, self-payment proofs, or automatic buyer spending from this packet.","No official AWS, Coinbase, Stripe, AgentCore, or marketplace endorsement claim.","No guaranteed revenue claim.","No buyer-level public data, full payment payloads, raw feedback, or full wallet addresses.","No settlement rail change and no seller wallet change."],"privacy":{"publicMetrics":"aggregate-only","buyerLevelDataPublic":false,"buyerPromptsPublic":false,"paidResponsesPublic":false,"rawFeedbackPublic":false,"fullWalletAddressesPublic":false,"fullPaymentPayloadsPublic":false},"note":"Qualified inbound builders should inspect /agent-revenue-audit and its no-spend payment intent before deciding whether a buyer-controlled x402 retry is worth $5."},"agentSpendPassport":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-spend-passport","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport","prepareApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport/prepare","mode":"free-no-spend-preflight","publicCopy":"Not sure what to buy? Generate a free Agent Spend Passport before paying.","explanation":"The Passport does not spend money. It recommends the right route, checks budget fit, warns about sensitive fields, and gives a safe copy-paste paid-call payload.","routeIsFree":true,"paidCallsMadeByPassport":false,"paidUpstreamCalls":false,"buyerLevelDataExposed":false,"note":"Buyer agents should generate this free Passport before selecting /api/opportunity-check or /api/agent-revenue-audit."},"hubSpotAgentReadinessUrl":"/hubspot-agent-readiness","hubSpotAgentReadinessApi":"/api/hubspot-agent-readiness","hubSpotAgentReadiness":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/hubspot-agent-readiness","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/hubspot-agent-readiness","positioning":"External x402 trust and monetization intelligence API for HubSpot-oriented agent builders and buyer agents.","integrationStatus":"readiness-only","recommendedFirstPaidCall":{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","url":"https://apexscout.ai/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"10000"},"recommendedBuilderAudit":{"path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","url":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-revenue-audit","price":"$5.00","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"5000000"},"notes":["HubSpot-oriented builders: ApexScout can be evaluated as an external x402 trust and monetization API.","This release does not connect to HubSpot CRM or use HubSpot OAuth.","ApexScout is not an official HubSpot app and does not claim HubSpot endorsement."]},"buyerAgentChallengeUrl":"/buyer-agent-challenge","buyerAgentChallengeApi":"/api/buyer-agent-challenge","buyerAgentChallenge":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/buyer-agent-challenge","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/buyer-agent-challenge","recommendedFirstPaidCall":{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"10000"},"notes":["Buyer may be a human operator or an authorized buyer agent.","ApexScout is zero-contact and inbound-only. It does not contact agents, post, DM, email, scrape, or manually message people."]},"x402SellerReadiness":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-seller-readiness","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-seller-readiness","purpose":"Help x402 API sellers prove their paid service is understandable, testable, privacy-safe, and buyer-agent ready before they ask buyers to pay.","recommendedFor":["x402 API sellers","agent-tool builders","AI service operators","API founders packaging a pay-per-call route"],"firstPaidRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","firstPaidPrice":"$0.01","notes":["ApexScout helps x402 sellers prove their route is understandable before asking buyer agents to pay.","ApexScout does not inspect third-party endpoints or contact agents."]},"zeroPostDiscoveryIndexing":{"mode":"zero-post-discovery-indexing","url":"https://apexscout.ai/discovery-readiness","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/discovery-readiness","statusApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/discovery-indexing-status","discoveryMetadataRoutes":[{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","bazaarMetadataConfigured":true,"discoveryReadiness":"ready"},{"path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","price":"$5.00","bazaarMetadataConfigured":true,"discoveryReadiness":"needs_settlement"},{"path":"/api/agentic-market-brief","price":"$0.25","bazaarMetadataConfigured":true,"discoveryReadiness":"ready"}],"notes":["ApexScout is in zero-post discovery mode.","The next exposure path is x402 settlement plus discovery metadata, not posts or DMs.","ApexScout is zero-contact and inbound-only. It does not contact agents, post, DM, email, scrape, or manually message people."]},"buyerTrustPacket":{"name":"ApexScout Buyer Trust Packet","mode":"inbound-only-manual-test-kit","updatedAt":"2026-05-04","summary":"ApexScout is an inbound-only SaaS/API surface for buyer agents and operators that want to inspect the product, choose a small first route, see the expected HTTP 402 challenge, and decide whether to retry with their own x402 client.","buyerPromise":["Inspect the public agent card, docs, pricing, guardrails, and sample payloads before paying.","No subscription is required: Pay once and get one JSON response once.","Inspect schemas and the expected unpaid HTTP 402 challenge before deciding whether to pay.","Start with a free helper or the cheapest useful protected route instead of guessing from the whole route list.","Treat unpaid HTTP 402 as the expected pre-payment checkpoint, not as a broken-service error.","Retry with x402 only from a buyer-controlled wallet/client after the route can change a real next decision.","Avoid high-value routes for vague or high-stakes decisions unless you already have outside verification and a specific decision to make."],"whoItIsFor":["Buyer agents choosing which ApexScout route to buy first.","Human operators checking the API before spending.","Agent/API builders deciding whether the $5 Agent Revenue Audit can improve their own paid route."],"whatCanBeTestedBeforePaying":["/public-agent explains the product, prices, guardrails, and first-buy ladder.","/docs.json exposes schemas, sample payloads, route metadata, and the buyer trust packet.","/start and /api/agent-message-intake can help choose a route without payment.","Protected paid routes can be sent unpaid first to confirm the expected HTTP 402 payment challenge."],"manualTestPlan":[{"step":1,"label":"Read the public card","path":"/public-agent","expected":"Buyer sees what ApexScout does, the inbound-only boundary, prices, and no-auto-spend guardrails."},{"step":2,"label":"Inspect machine docs","path":"/docs.json","expected":"Buyer sees schemas, example payloads, route prices, trust boundaries, and payment expectations."},{"step":3,"label":"Ask for a free route recommendation","path":"/api/agent-message-intake","expected":"Buyer gets a safe next-route answer with no payment, no outbound message, and no paid upstream call."},{"step":4,"label":"Run the unpaid protected probe","path":"/api/opportunity-check","expected":"Buyer receives HTTP 402 with the listed $0.01 price and retry instructions."},{"step":5,"label":"Use the rescue or testbench before paying","path":"/instant-x402","expected":"Buyer can copy the payload, confirm the route, and choose whether a paid retry is justified."},{"step":6,"label":"Retry paid only when ready","path":"/402-rescue","expected":"Buyer pays through their own x402 client on Base mainnet only if the output can change the next action."}],"safeManualProbe":{"method":"POST","path":"/api/opportunity-check","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"expectedPaidStatus":200,"price":"$0.01","whyFirst":"This is the cheapest useful paid test. Use it unless the buyer already knows they need a named-company route or the $5 agent/API monetization audit.","samplePayload":{"subject":"Example vendor or agent service","buyer":"operator evaluating whether to spend more time","goal":"Decide whether this subject deserves deeper diligence.","knownContext":"Manually supplied context only. Do not scrape or discover third-party targets."}},"protectedRouteBehavior":{"noSubscription":true,"paymentModel":"Pay once, get JSON once.","unpaidBehavior":"Unpaid protected POST routes return HTTP 402 with x402 payment requirements.","paidBehavior":"After buyer-controlled x402 payment, the same route should return one structured JSON result.","buyerControlsPayment":true,"codexShouldSpendMoney":false},"firstBuyLadder":[{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","useWhen":"The buyer wants the cheapest useful paid proof or is unsure whether deeper work is justified."},{"path":"/api/company-intel","price":"$0.05","useWhen":"The buyer already has one named company and wants a first-pass trust snapshot."},{"path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","price":"$5.00","useWhen":"The buyer is a builder/operator asking how to package, price, or improve their own paid agent/API route."}],"routeResultGuide":[{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","title":"Opportunity Check","price":"$0.01","returns":"Opportunity Check returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/research-brief","title":"Research Brief","price":"$0.05","returns":"Research Brief returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/company-intel","title":"Company Intel","price":"$0.05","returns":"Company Intel returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/company-watch","title":"Company Watch","price":"$0.20","returns":"Company Watch returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/source-check","title":"Source Check","price":"$0.05","returns":"Source Check returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/vendor-risk","title":"Vendor Risk","price":"$0.05","returns":"Vendor Risk returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/deep-diligence","title":"Deep Diligence","price":"$0.50","returns":"Deep Diligence returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/lead-brief","title":"Lead Brief","price":"$0.05","returns":"Lead Brief returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agentic-market-brief","title":"ApexScout Agentic Market Brief","price":"$0.25","returns":"ApexScout Agentic Market Brief returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agentic-service-scorecard","title":"ApexScout Service Scorecard","price":"$0.05","returns":"ApexScout Service Scorecard returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agentic-route-forge","title":"ApexScout RouteForge","price":"$0.25","returns":"ApexScout RouteForge returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agentic-market-watch","title":"ApexScout Market Watch","price":"$0.01","returns":"ApexScout Market Watch returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agentic-launch-plan","title":"ApexScout Launch Plan","price":"$0.50","returns":"ApexScout Launch Plan returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","title":"Agent Revenue Audit","price":"$5.00","returns":"Agent Revenue Audit returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."}],"recommendedFirstRoute":{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","reason":"It is the cheapest useful protected route and is safest when the buyer is still deciding whether deeper work is justified."},"ifPaymentBreaks":["Open /402-rescue and compare the expected unpaid HTTP 402 body with the actual response.","Check /status and /health locally before assuming payment is broken.","Use /api/agent-message-intake or /api/first-buy-advisor for free route help before spending again.","Do not retry high-value routes repeatedly until the 402-to-paid path is clear."],"privateData":["Buyer prompts are not exposed publicly.","Wallet-level request history is not exposed publicly.","Raw feedback text is not exposed publicly.","Paid response bodies are not exposed publicly.","Watched subjects tied to buyers are not exposed publicly."],"trustSignals":["Public docs and card are available before payment.","Base mainnet is the 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claims are explicitly not made."},"paymentGateExpectations":{"opportunityCheck":{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"price":"$0.01","amountAtomicUnits":"10000","network":"eip155:8453"},"agentRevenueAudit":{"path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"price":"$5.00","amountAtomicUnits":"5000000","network":"eip155:8453"}},"guardrails":["Zero-contact and inbound-only.","No scraping or third-party endpoint discovery.","No posts, DMs, emails, manual messages, or contact campaigns.","No paid calls or paid upstream calls from this packet.","No fake traffic, fake feedback, or fake paid completions.","No settlement rail change.","No seller wallet change.","No batch settlement, escrow, off-chain voucher acceptance, or facilitator-sponsored gas claim.","No raw x402 resource URLs, reason strings, payload previews, full wallet addresses, secrets, or buyer-level metadata should be sent before the free metadata preflight passes.","No official AWS, Coinbase, or Stripe endorsement claim.","No official standards-body endorsement claim.","No guaranteed revenue claim.","No buyer wallet custody, buyer budget management, or automatic paid retry.","No regulated compliance enforcement claim.","No investment, legal, tax, compliance, lending, or trading advice.","No buyer-level public data."],"note":"ApexScout turns public x402, MCP, AgentCore, Bazaar, network, ERC-20, Stripe MPP, privacy, and policy-control signals into safe owned metadata without changing payment rails or exposing buyer-level data."},"x402BatchSettlementReadiness":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-batch-settlement","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-batch-settlement","mode":"readiness-only-no-spend","sourceSignal":{"source":"Coinbase Developer Platform x402 batch settlement update","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/CoinbaseDev/status/2054241284651676074","detailUrl":"https://x.com/Jnix2007/status/2054233052872872194","observedCapability":"x402 batch settlement lets agents use off-chain vouchers and one final settlement instead of settling every API call individually.","apexScoutInterpretation":"This is useful future infrastructure for high-volume buyer agents, but ApexScout should not change its live rail until facilitator, seller, privacy, and accounting behavior are explicitly approved."},"currentProductionBoundary":{"activeRail":"Base mainnet x402","network":"eip155:8453","baseX402Active":true,"facilitator":"https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402","firstPaidRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","firstPaidRoutePrice":"$0.01","builderMonetizationRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","builderMonetizationRoutePrice":"$5.00","batchSettlementEnabled":false,"escrowEnabled":false,"offChainVouchersAccepted":false,"facilitatorSponsoredGasEnabled":false,"settlementRailChanged":false,"sellerWalletChanged":false,"automaticBuyerSpendingAdded":false,"paidCallsMadeByThisSurface":false,"paidUpstreamCalls":false},"buyerAgentGuidance":{"recommendedFirstStep":"/agent-spend-passport","normalLowVolumeFlow":["Inspect /x402-proof.","Generate a free /agent-spend-passport.","Use /api/opportunity-check for the $0.01 proof route when the buyer only needs a cheap rail test.","Use /api/agent-revenue-audit for the $5 builder monetization route only with approved budget.","Stop if Passport says stop."],"batchSettlementPosition":"Batch settlement is future compatibility context. Do not assume ApexScout accepts vouchers or escrowed batch payment today."},"guardrails":["No paid calls are made by this readiness surface.","No escrow, voucher acceptance, or batch settlement is enabled.","No facilitator-sponsored gas claim is made for ApexScout production traffic.","No settlement rail or seller wallet change is made.","No buyer wallet custody, buyer budget management, or automatic buyer spending is added.","No buyer-level data, full wallet addresses, full payment payloads, voucher histories, or paid response bodies are public.","No revenue, conversion, endorsement, compliance, legal, tax, investment, lending, or trading guarantee is made.","No scraping, posting, DMs, email, outreach, third-party discovery, fake traffic, or fake feedback is added."],"note":"ApexScout is aware of x402 batch settlement, but batch settlement, escrow, voucher acceptance, seller wallet changes, and rail changes are not enabled."},"agentSafetyPosture":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-safety-posture","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-safety-posture","mode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","controlScore":{"implemented":6,"possible":6,"status":"owned-safety-surface"},"productionBoundary":{"activeRail":"Base mainnet x402","protocol":"x402","network":"eip155:8453","baseX402Active":true,"facilitator":"https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402","firstPaidRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","firstPaidRoutePrice":"$0.01","firstPaidRouteAmountAtomicUnits":"10000","builderMonetizationRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","builderMonetizationRoutePrice":"$5.00","builderMonetizationRouteAmountAtomicUnits":"5000000","paidCallsMadeByThisPage":false,"paidUpstreamCallsAdded":false,"settlementRailChanged":false,"sellerWalletChanged":false,"automaticBuyerSpendingAdded":false},"guardrails":["Inbound-only","Zero-contact mode","No scraping","No third-party discovery","No outreach automation","No manual messages, posts, DMs, or emails","No paid calls by this readiness surface","No paid upstream calls","No fake traffic, fake feedback, or fake paid completions","No buyer-level public data","No partner or endorsement claim is made","No investment, legal, tax, trading, or revenue guarantee advice"],"privacy":{"publicMetrics":"aggregate-only","aggregateOnly":true,"buyerLevelDataPublic":false,"buyerPromptsPublic":false,"paidResponsesPublic":false,"walletHistoriesPublic":false,"rawFeedbackPublic":false,"fullWalletAddressesPublic":false,"fullPaymentPayloadsPublic":false,"cdpKeysPublic":false},"note":"ApexScout publishes a no-spend safety posture so buyer agents can inspect boundaries, approval gates, credential privacy, and audit-safe aggregate metrics before paid x402 retries."},"agentWonderlandReadiness":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-wonderland-readiness","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-wonderland-readiness","mode":"readiness-only-owned-surface","liveMode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","readyForAgentWonderlandStyleDiscovery":true,"packageName":"@agentwonderland/mcp","packageVersionObserved":"0.1.46","firstPaidRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","builderMonetizationRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","agentWonderlandPackageInstalled":false,"agentWonderlandSetupRun":false,"listingSubmitted":false,"openWalletConnected":false,"stripeConnectAdded":false,"mppSettlementEnabled":false,"tokenActionTaken":false,"settlementRailChanged":false,"sellerWalletChanged":false,"guardrails":["Readiness-only owned surface.","Zero-contact and inbound-only.","No Agent Wonderland package install or setup command.","No Agent Wonderland listing submission.","No OpenWallet connection.","No MPP, Stripe Connect, Solana, or Tempo settlement enabled by ApexScout.","No token purchase, token recommendation, token-gated route, or treasury action.","No paid calls or paid upstream calls.","No scraping, third-party discovery, endpoint scanning, or lead harvesting.","No posts, DMs, emails, manual messages, or contact campaigns.","No official Agent Wonderland, AWS, Coinbase, Stripe, Base, Solana, Tempo, or OpenWallet endorsement claim.","No guaranteed revenue claim.","No buyer-level public data.","No settlement rail change.","No seller wallet change."],"note":"ApexScout is ready for Agent Wonderland-style discovery through owned MCP and x402 surfaces only; no package setup, listing, wallet change, Stripe Connect, MPP, Solana, Tempo, or token action is performed by ApexScout."},"circleAgentStackReadiness":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/circle-agent-stack-readiness","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/circle-agent-stack-readiness","mode":"readiness-only-owned-surface","liveMode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","readyForCircleAgentStackStyleBuyers":true,"firstPaidRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","builderMonetizationRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","circleAgentWalletCreatedByApexScout":false,"circleCliInstalled":false,"circleSkillsInstalled":false,"circleGatewayNanopaymentsEnabled":false,"circleMarketplaceSubmitted":false,"circleWalletCustodyAdded":false,"circleWalletFundingAdded":false,"settlementRailChanged":false,"sellerWalletChanged":false,"guardrails":["Readiness-only owned surface.","Zero-contact and inbound-only.","No Circle Agent Wallet creation, funding, custody, or wallet management by ApexScout.","No Circle CLI command run and no Circle Skill installed.","No Circle Gateway nanopayment integration or settlement rail switch.","No Circle Agent Marketplace submission.","No official Circle endorsement, partnership, listing, or approval claim.","No paid calls or paid upstream calls.","No scraping, third-party discovery, endpoint scanning, or lead harvesting.","No posts, DMs, emails, manual messages, or contact campaigns.","No fake traffic, fake feedback, or fake paid completions.","No guaranteed revenue claim.","No buyer-level public data.","No settlement rail change.","No seller wallet change."],"privacy":{"publicMetrics":"aggregate-only","buyerLevelDataPublic":false,"buyerPromptsPublic":false,"walletHistoriesPublic":false,"paidResponsesPublic":false,"rawFeedbackPublic":false,"fullWalletAddressesPublic":false,"fullPaymentPayloadsPublic":false},"note":"ApexScout is ready for Circle Agent Stack-style paid API buyers through owned x402, MCP, and proof surfaces only; no Circle wallet, CLI, Skill, Gateway nanopayment, marketplace submission, or endorsement claim is performed by ApexScout."},"agenticPaymentsMarketSignal":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/agentic-payments-market-signal","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agentic-payments-market-signal","mode":"market-context-owned-surface","source":"Token Terminal","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/tokenterminal/status/2053895358405652592","monthlyActiveAgenticSenders":"~177.5k","marketContextOnly":true,"apexScoutTractionClaim":false,"revenueClaim":false,"note":"The Token Terminal chart is useful market context for agentic payments and Base, but it is not an ApexScout traction, endorsement, or revenue claim."},"whyApexScoutAgenticPayments":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/why-apexscout-agentic-payments","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/why-apexscout-agentic-payments","mode":"public-positioning-owned-surface","headline":"ApexScout is already shaped like an agent-paid API: inspect, challenge, pay once, get JSON once.","bestMachineRead":"/api/why-apexscout-agentic-payments","primaryBuilderRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","guardrails":["No Token Terminal endorsement claim.","No ApexScout traction claim from this chart.","No guaranteed revenue claim.","No third-party scraping or outreach.","No paid calls.","No fake traffic, feedback, paid completions, or revenue.","No buyer-level public data.","No settlement rail change.","No seller wallet change."]},"conversionClose":{"mode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","primaryRoute":{"label":"Agent Revenue Audit","page":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-revenue-audit","paymentIntent":"https://apexscout.ai/payment-intent?route=agent-revenue-audit&src=conversion-close","path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","price":"$5.00","amountAtomicUnits":"5000000","network":"eip155:8453","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"expectedPaidStatus":200,"paymentModel":"Pay once, get JSON once."},"qualifierRoute":{"label":"Opportunity Check","path":"/api/opportunity-check","page":"https://apexscout.ai/first-paid-call?route=opportunity-check&src=conversion-close","price":"$0.01","amountAtomicUnits":"10000","network":"eip155:8453","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"role":"Use this only when the buyer wants the cheapest payment proof before considering the $5 audit."},"buyerQuestion":"Will this help me turn my agent, API, MCP tool, or x402 route into paid demand?","whyBuyNow":["You already have an agent, API, MCP tool, or x402 service and need a sharper paid offer.","You are seeing 402 pressure, page visits, or buyer questions but not enough paid retries.","You need route pricing, first paid action, and buyer-agent retry instructions in one JSON response."],"notFor":["Investment, legal, tax, lending, compliance, trading, or guaranteed revenue decisions.","Buyers who only need to test payment plumbing; use the $0.01 Opportunity Check instead.","Anyone expecting ApexScout to scrape leads, contact people, inspect third-party domains, or make paid upstream calls."],"guardrails":["Zero-contact and inbound-only.","No posts, DMs, emails, manual messages, or contact campaigns.","No scraping, third-party discovery, endpoint scanning, or lead harvesting.","No paid calls, paid upstream calls, self-payment proofs, or automatic buyer spending from this packet.","No official AWS, Coinbase, Stripe, AgentCore, or marketplace endorsement claim.","No guaranteed revenue claim.","No buyer-level public data, full payment payloads, raw feedback, or full wallet addresses.","No settlement rail change and no seller wallet change."],"privacy":{"publicMetrics":"aggregate-only","buyerLevelDataPublic":false,"buyerPromptsPublic":false,"paidResponsesPublic":false,"rawFeedbackPublic":false,"fullWalletAddressesPublic":false,"fullPaymentPayloadsPublic":false},"note":"Qualified inbound builders should inspect /agent-revenue-audit and its no-spend payment intent before deciding whether a buyer-controlled x402 retry is worth $5."},"agentSpendPassport":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-spend-passport","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport","prepareApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport/prepare","mode":"free-no-spend-preflight","publicCopy":"Not sure what to buy? Generate a free Agent Spend Passport before paying.","explanation":"The Passport does not spend money. It recommends the right route, checks budget fit, warns about sensitive fields, and gives a safe copy-paste paid-call payload.","routeIsFree":true,"paidCallsMadeByPassport":false,"paidUpstreamCalls":false,"buyerLevelDataExposed":false,"note":"Buyer agents should generate this free Passport before selecting /api/opportunity-check or /api/agent-revenue-audit."},"hubSpotAgentReadinessUrl":"/hubspot-agent-readiness","hubSpotAgentReadinessApi":"/api/hubspot-agent-readiness","hubSpotAgentReadiness":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/hubspot-agent-readiness","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/hubspot-agent-readiness","positioning":"External x402 trust and monetization intelligence API for HubSpot-oriented agent builders and buyer agents.","integrationStatus":"readiness-only","recommendedFirstPaidCall":{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","url":"https://apexscout.ai/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"10000"},"recommendedBuilderAudit":{"path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","url":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-revenue-audit","price":"$5.00","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"5000000"},"notes":["HubSpot-oriented builders: ApexScout can be evaluated as an external x402 trust and monetization API.","This release does not connect to HubSpot CRM or use HubSpot OAuth.","ApexScout is not an official HubSpot app and does not claim HubSpot endorsement."]},"buyerAgentChallengeUrl":"/buyer-agent-challenge","buyerAgentChallengeApi":"/api/buyer-agent-challenge","buyerAgentChallenge":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/buyer-agent-challenge","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/buyer-agent-challenge","recommendedFirstPaidCall":{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"10000"},"notes":["Buyer may be a human operator or an authorized buyer agent.","ApexScout is zero-contact and inbound-only. It does not contact agents, post, DM, email, scrape, or manually message people."]},"x402SellerReadiness":{"url":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-seller-readiness","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-seller-readiness","purpose":"Help x402 API sellers prove their paid service is understandable, testable, privacy-safe, and buyer-agent ready before they ask buyers to pay.","recommendedFor":["x402 API sellers","agent-tool builders","AI service operators","API founders packaging a pay-per-call route"],"firstPaidRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","firstPaidPrice":"$0.01","notes":["ApexScout helps x402 sellers prove their route is understandable before asking buyer agents to pay.","ApexScout does not inspect third-party endpoints or contact agents."]},"zeroPostDiscoveryIndexing":{"mode":"zero-post-discovery-indexing","url":"https://apexscout.ai/discovery-readiness","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/discovery-readiness","statusApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/discovery-indexing-status","discoveryMetadataRoutes":[{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","bazaarMetadataConfigured":true,"discoveryReadiness":"ready"},{"path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","price":"$5.00","bazaarMetadataConfigured":true,"discoveryReadiness":"needs_settlement"},{"path":"/api/agentic-market-brief","price":"$0.25","bazaarMetadataConfigured":true,"discoveryReadiness":"ready"}],"notes":["ApexScout is in zero-post discovery mode.","The next exposure path is x402 settlement plus discovery metadata, not posts or DMs.","ApexScout is zero-contact and inbound-only. It does not contact agents, post, DM, email, scrape, or manually message people."]},"buyerTrustPacket":{"name":"ApexScout Buyer Trust Packet","mode":"inbound-only-manual-test-kit","updatedAt":"2026-05-04","summary":"ApexScout is an inbound-only SaaS/API surface for buyer agents and operators that want to inspect the product, choose a small first route, see the expected HTTP 402 challenge, and decide whether to retry with their own x402 client.","buyerPromise":["Inspect the public agent card, docs, pricing, guardrails, and sample payloads before paying.","No subscription is required: Pay once and get one JSON response once.","Inspect schemas and the expected unpaid HTTP 402 challenge before deciding whether to pay.","Start with a free helper or the cheapest useful protected route instead of guessing from the whole route list.","Treat unpaid HTTP 402 as the expected pre-payment checkpoint, not as a broken-service error.","Retry with x402 only from a buyer-controlled wallet/client after the route can change a real next decision.","Avoid high-value routes for vague or high-stakes decisions unless you already have outside verification and a specific decision to make."],"whoItIsFor":["Buyer agents choosing which ApexScout route to buy first.","Human operators checking the API before spending.","Agent/API builders deciding whether the $5 Agent Revenue Audit can improve their own paid route."],"whatCanBeTestedBeforePaying":["/public-agent explains the product, prices, guardrails, and first-buy ladder.","/docs.json exposes schemas, sample payloads, route metadata, and the buyer trust packet.","/start and /api/agent-message-intake can help choose a route without payment.","Protected paid routes can be sent unpaid first to confirm the expected HTTP 402 payment challenge."],"manualTestPlan":[{"step":1,"label":"Read the public card","path":"/public-agent","expected":"Buyer sees what ApexScout does, the inbound-only boundary, prices, and no-auto-spend guardrails."},{"step":2,"label":"Inspect machine docs","path":"/docs.json","expected":"Buyer sees schemas, example payloads, route prices, trust boundaries, and payment expectations."},{"step":3,"label":"Ask for a free route recommendation","path":"/api/agent-message-intake","expected":"Buyer gets a safe next-route answer with no payment, no outbound message, and no paid upstream call."},{"step":4,"label":"Run the unpaid protected probe","path":"/api/opportunity-check","expected":"Buyer receives HTTP 402 with the listed $0.01 price and retry instructions."},{"step":5,"label":"Use the rescue or testbench before paying","path":"/instant-x402","expected":"Buyer can copy the payload, confirm the route, and choose whether a paid retry is justified."},{"step":6,"label":"Retry paid only when ready","path":"/402-rescue","expected":"Buyer pays through their own x402 client on Base mainnet only if the output can change the next action."}],"safeManualProbe":{"method":"POST","path":"/api/opportunity-check","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"expectedPaidStatus":200,"price":"$0.01","whyFirst":"This is the cheapest useful paid test. Use it unless the buyer already knows they need a named-company route or the $5 agent/API monetization audit.","samplePayload":{"subject":"Example vendor or agent service","buyer":"operator evaluating whether to spend more time","goal":"Decide whether this subject deserves deeper diligence.","knownContext":"Manually supplied context only. Do not scrape or discover third-party targets."}},"protectedRouteBehavior":{"noSubscription":true,"paymentModel":"Pay once, get JSON once.","unpaidBehavior":"Unpaid protected POST routes return HTTP 402 with x402 payment requirements.","paidBehavior":"After buyer-controlled x402 payment, the same route should return one structured JSON result.","buyerControlsPayment":true,"codexShouldSpendMoney":false},"firstBuyLadder":[{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","useWhen":"The buyer wants the cheapest useful paid proof or is unsure whether deeper work is justified."},{"path":"/api/company-intel","price":"$0.05","useWhen":"The buyer already has one named company and wants a first-pass trust snapshot."},{"path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","price":"$5.00","useWhen":"The buyer is a builder/operator asking how to package, price, or improve their own paid agent/API route."}],"routeResultGuide":[{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","title":"Opportunity Check","price":"$0.01","returns":"Opportunity Check returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/research-brief","title":"Research Brief","price":"$0.05","returns":"Research Brief returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/company-intel","title":"Company Intel","price":"$0.05","returns":"Company Intel returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/company-watch","title":"Company Watch","price":"$0.20","returns":"Company Watch returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/source-check","title":"Source Check","price":"$0.05","returns":"Source Check returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/vendor-risk","title":"Vendor Risk","price":"$0.05","returns":"Vendor Risk returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/deep-diligence","title":"Deep Diligence","price":"$0.50","returns":"Deep Diligence returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/lead-brief","title":"Lead Brief","price":"$0.05","returns":"Lead Brief returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agentic-market-brief","title":"ApexScout Agentic Market Brief","price":"$0.25","returns":"ApexScout Agentic Market Brief returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agentic-service-scorecard","title":"ApexScout Service Scorecard","price":"$0.05","returns":"ApexScout Service Scorecard returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agentic-route-forge","title":"ApexScout RouteForge","price":"$0.25","returns":"ApexScout RouteForge returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agentic-market-watch","title":"ApexScout Market Watch","price":"$0.01","returns":"ApexScout Market Watch returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agentic-launch-plan","title":"ApexScout Launch Plan","price":"$0.50","returns":"ApexScout Launch Plan returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."},{"path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","title":"Agent Revenue Audit","price":"$5.00","returns":"Agent Revenue Audit returns one structured JSON result for the submitted request. Public examples are synthetic and do not expose real buyer history."}],"recommendedFirstRoute":{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","reason":"It is the cheapest useful protected route and is safest when the buyer is still deciding whether deeper work is justified."},"ifPaymentBreaks":["Open /402-rescue and compare the expected unpaid HTTP 402 body with the actual response.","Check /status and /health locally before assuming payment is broken.","Use /api/agent-message-intake or /api/first-buy-advisor for free route help before spending again.","Do not retry high-value routes repeatedly until the 402-to-paid path is clear."],"privateData":["Buyer prompts are not exposed publicly.","Wallet-level request history is not exposed publicly.","Raw feedback text is not exposed publicly.","Paid response bodies are not exposed publicly.","Watched subjects tied to buyers are not exposed publicly."],"trustSignals":["Public docs and card are available before payment.","Base mainnet is the proven production x402 rail.","Paid proof is public, but buyer wallet and buyer-level histories are redacted.","Public dashboard and cash register expose aggregate metrics only.","Every paid response is framed as first-pass decision support with explicit safe-use boundaries."],"willNotDo":["No automatic contact, DMs, emails, agent-to-agent signals, or third-party contact.","No security testing, endpoint scanning, scraping, or broad outside-domain lookup.","No paid upstream calls or automatic buyer spending.","No public buyer prompts, wallet-level histories, raw feedback, watched subjects, or paid response bodies.","No settlement-rail switch away from the proven Base mainnet x402 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