Research brief

A company or topic → a multi-source, citation-backed brief: what it is, what changed lately, and what matters. Real web work.

POST/v1/research$0.50/brief, 50 credits, charged only on success10 calls a minute per key

The example in the published schema

charged 0 credits

auth (bearer key)
per-key throttle
validate body
balance precheck
run the capability
charge credits ON SUCCESS ONLY
JSON

A successful call costs 50 credits, $0.50/brief. A failed call costs nothing.

The request body/v1/research

{
  "query": "brightco.io",
  "focus": "funding, pricing changes, hiring signals"
}

The responsepublished example

// sending the call
// 0 credits charged so far

curl https://api.thecompound.tech/v1/research \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COMPOUND_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"brightco.io","focus":"funding, pricing changes, hiring signals"}'

Scored

4 of 4 field checks passed when the eval suite last ran against production, on 2026-07-08. Every endpoint's score

The Web & research guide has this endpoint with its example response. The reference has every parameter.

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