What agents ask for

Software agents — programs that act for people — come to this directory to find paid APIs and datasets they can buy on their own, without a human signing up for anything. Every search they run is logged, and this page publishes those searches: what agents went looking for. A search with no good answer is a service nobody is selling yet. The free list below shows everything that was asked; marking which searches went unanswered is part of the paid report described further down.

Two things to know before reading the tables. It is a week late: nothing appears here until 7 days after it was asked, over a rolling 30-day window, so a search run this morning shows up a week from now. It is complete: every term that passes the rules below is here, free. Nothing is held back to make a paid version look better.

This window is still filling. This feed publishes search terms verbatim under the rules stated at /privacy, which took effect 2026-09-12. Terms logged before then were collected under a stricter rule and are not republished, so the window begins there. It is 30 days long and ends a week behind live, so it is complete on 2026-10-19; it currently covers 23 of 30 days. Emptiness here is the window's age, not a claim about the market.

This page was built 2026-10-16T20:09:58Z and is rebuilt every hour.

The two tables are one list, split only to make it easier to read — not two policies. The split answers the first question anyone has about a need: does it keep coming back, or was it asked once? Both are real. A need asked once today can be somebody's income in six months, which is why it is published rather than thrown away.

Asked on more than one day

Terms that came back on separate days. A single burst cannot fake this column, but one caller checking in daily can — so read days together with client IPs: four days from seven addresses is a pattern, four days from one address is probably somebody watching a service.

Asked on a single day so far

Same feed, same rule, same exclusions — asked on one day up to now. While the window is still filling this is where most of the descriptive needs are, because something that checks in daily collects days quickly and a genuine one-off need does not. Read it as the newer, rawer end of the same signal.

Lookups of a named listing

Searches for one listed service by its own name, asked almost only by clients that searched nothing else — most likely a service checking that it can be found, not someone shopping. They are not hidden: they are listed here, with the same counts, instead of in the tables above. The rule: a term is a lookup of a named listing when it contains a service's own name (a word of 4 or more characters that appears in the listing names of exactly one seller, one registered domain, and in that seller's own hostname) and at least 80% of the client IPs that searched it searched nothing but that seller (since 2026-09-26).

Scripted rotation

Terms asked by many client IPs almost all of which searched only once — one caller on rotating addresses, not many buyers. They are listed here, with the same counts, instead of in the tables above. The rule: a term is listed apart as scripted rotation when at least 50 distinct client IPs asked it and at least 90% of them searched only once in the whole window (one caller on rotating addresses; an agent searching once is normal, a hundred single-use addresses asking the same term is not) (since 2026-09-28).

How to read the numbers

• days — on how many different days the term was searched.
• client IPs — how many different addresses searched it, stored only as a salted hash. Read it as a ceiling on independent demand, never a count of buyers: one caller on serverless infrastructure once showed up as eight addresses in a single second.
• searches — how many times the term was searched in total.

A term appears once at least 1 non-seller client has asked it, on however many days. Searches from clients that also edit listings here are sellers checking their own ranking; they are left out of these tables and counted separately. A term containing a URL, hostname, wallet address or email address is never published, because it names a party rather than describing a need, and any term can be withheld by hand. Both kinds of removal are published as counts, so you can see how much was left out even though you cannot see what.

Free, and what is for sale

Everything above is free, and stays free. What is sold is the current window, with no delay, and with the different ways agents phrase one need grouped together as one need, each marked with whether anything in our index answers it. What money never buys here is raw queries, client identifiers, or anything about an individual caller — the same protections apply on both sides of the paywall.

Buy the current report — $2

One report, everything in it, $2 USDC on Base: the current 30-day window, rebuilt every 15 minutes rather than a week behind, the different ways agents phrase one need grouped together as one need, and each need marked with whether our index answers it today — how many verified listings the same search returns, run by us about once a day for the 1,000 highest-ranked needs, with the top ones linked. The same privacy rules apply as on the free list: no raw queries beyond a few example phrasings, no client identifiers, and a need appears only once enough different clients have asked it.

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Why you can trust this list

Because we check it against ourselves and publish what we find. This feed was rebuilt on 2026-09-01 after we found it publishing catalogue browsing, one seller's checks on its own ranking, and a count of addresses dressed up as a count of clients. Every rule, every change to a rule, and every correction since is dated at methodology and privacy.

Agents and scripts: the same data, as JSON, is at /v1/demand.

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