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Free, no key.","when_to_use":"You need a SIC code for EDGAR industry filtering or to decode one from a filing header.","tags":["sec","sic","industry","lookup","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/sic?q=pharmaceutical","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/sec_sic_lookup"},{"id":"technology_lookup","endpoint":"/v1/technology/lookup","price_usd":0.0,"description":"Look up statistical research momentum for one OpenAlex topic (free) — returns rank among ~4,500 topics, momentum z-score, 1y/3y/5y growth, acceleration and per-year counts. Use to screen a field before paying for a full judgment.","when_to_use":"You have a topic and want its numbers now, or you are screening many topics.","tags":["research-momentum","openalex","technology-scouting","free","science"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/technology/lookup?topic=photonic+computing","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/technology_lookup"},{"id":"funding_naics_lookup","endpoint":"/v1/funding/naics","price_usd":0.0,"description":"NAICS industry code resolution: text or code prefix in, code + description + retired flag out. The identifier layer for any US federal contracting analysis. Free, no key.","when_to_use":"You need a NAICS code for a federal-spending query and have only an industry name or partial code.","tags":["funding","procurement","naics","lookup","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/funding/naics?q=software","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/funding_naics_lookup"},{"id":"funding_program_lookup","endpoint":"/v1/funding/programs","price_usd":0.0,"description":"Federal assistance-listing (CFDA) resolution: topic or name in, program number + title + popular name out. The identifier for US federal grant analyses. Free.","when_to_use":"You need the assistance-listing number behind a federal grant program name or topic.","tags":["funding","grants","cfda","lookup","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/funding/programs?q=cancer+research","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/funding_program_lookup"},{"id":"funding_psc_lookup","endpoint":"/v1/funding/psc","price_usd":0.0,"description":"Federal Product/Service Code resolution: text in, PSC code + description out. The what-was-bought identifier for US federal award filtering. Free, no key.","when_to_use":"You need to filter federal awards by what was purchased and have only a description.","tags":["funding","procurement","psc","lookup","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/funding/psc?q=engineering","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/funding_psc_lookup"},{"id":"funding_recipient_lookup","endpoint":"/v1/funding/recipients","price_usd":0.0,"description":"Federal award recipient name resolution: fuzzy name in, deduplicated canonical recipient names (and UEI when available) out. The entity-resolution step before any who-got-federal-money question. Free, no key.","when_to_use":"You are about to query federal awards by recipient and need the exact name variants the data uses.","tags":["funding","recipient","uei","lookup","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/funding/recipients?q=lockheed","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/funding_recipient_lookup"},{"id":"reg_agency_lookup","endpoint":"/v1/regs/agencies","price_usd":0.0,"description":"Resolve a US federal agency name to its Federal Register slug — searches all ~470 agencies, returns slug, display name, short name and parent. Free. The slug is the agency parameter every other AnswerPool regulation endpoint takes.","when_to_use":"You have an agency name or acronym and need the canonical slug for filtered rule-tracking calls.","tags":["regulation","agency","lookup","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/regs/agencies?q=securities","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/reg_agency_lookup"},{"id":"sec_cik_lookup","endpoint":"/v1/sec/cik","price_usd":0.0,"description":"Resolve a ticker or company name to its SEC CIK — returns zero-padded CIK, ticker and registered name from the SEC's official mapping. Free. Use before any EDGAR call instead of downloading and parsing company_tickers.json yourself.","when_to_use":"You have a ticker or name and need the CIK that filings, facts and insider endpoints take.","tags":["sec","edgar","cik","lookup","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/cik?ticker=NVDA","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/sec_cik_lookup"},{"id":"sec_ticker_lookup","endpoint":"/v1/sec/ticker","price_usd":0.0,"description":"Resolve an SEC CIK to its ticker and registered company name from the SEC's official mapping — the reverse of CIK lookup. Free. Use when a filing gives you a CIK and you need the tradable symbol.","when_to_use":"You hold a CIK (from any filing) and need ticker and name.","tags":["sec","edgar","cik","ticker","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/ticker?cik=0000320193","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/sec_ticker_lookup"},{"id":"funding_resolve","endpoint":"/v1/funding/resolve","price_usd":0.0,"description":"Any federal-spending string in — industry, product, program, recipient or agency — every code space searched at once, each match tagged with the filter parameter it belongs to. One call instead of five lookups. Free, no key.","when_to_use":"You have one string and do not know which federal code space it belongs to.","tags":["funding","resolve","identifiers","lookup","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/funding/resolve?q=cancer","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/funding_resolve"},{"id":"nih_institute_lookup","endpoint":"/v1/nih/institutes","price_usd":0.0,"description":"All 27 NIH institutes/centers with code, full name and research focus, searchable. One call replaces the NIH org-chart crawl. Free, no key.","when_to_use":"You have an NIH institute code to decode, or a research area to map to its funding institute.","tags":["nih","biomedical","institute","glossary","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/nih/institutes?q=cancer","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/nih_institute_lookup"},{"id":"reg_resolve","endpoint":"/v1/regs/resolve","price_usd":0.0,"description":"Any regulatory string in — agency name or acronym, \"40 CFR 60\", a document number — canonical identifier and the ready-to-call endpoint out. One call instead of picking a lookup. Free, no key.","when_to_use":"You have a citation, acronym or document number and need the identifier plus where to send it.","tags":["regulation","resolve","cfr","identifiers","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/regs/resolve?q=40+CFR+60","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/reg_resolve"},{"id":"kev_search","endpoint":"/v1/cyber/kev","price_usd":0.0,"description":"CISA KEV search by vendor, product, CVE or ransomware linkage, with days-since-added and days-to-deadline computed per entry. Exploited-in-the-wild, not just published. Free, no key.","when_to_use":"You need to know whether a vulnerability is actively exploited and how urgent it is.","tags":["security","vulnerability","kev","cve","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/cyber/kev?vendor=Microsoft","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/kev_search"},{"id":"sec_company_search","endpoint":"/v1/sec/search/company","price_usd":0.0,"description":"Search SEC registrants by name substring or ticker — returns candidate filers with CIK, ticker and registered name. Free. Use to disambiguate an informal company name before calling filings or facts endpoints.","when_to_use":"The exact registered name or ticker is unknown.","tags":["sec","edgar","search","lookup","free"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/search/company?q=jefferies","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/sec_company_search"},{"id":"graph_person","endpoint":"/v1/graph/person","price_usd":0.02,"description":"Look up an insider by name or owner CIK and get every issuer they file SEC ownership forms for — roles, filing counts, first/last seen. The person node of the entity graph in one call.","when_to_use":"You have an insider's name or CIK and want their issuer footprint.","tags":["sec","insider","person","graph"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/graph/person?q=INSIDER","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/graph_person"},{"id":"peers_percentile","endpoint":"/v1/peers/percentile","price_usd":0.05,"description":"A company's percentile and rank versus its same-industry XBRL peer group on revenue, assets, net income and margin, with peer median/min/max. One call replaces a peer lookup plus a fundamentals fetch per peer.","when_to_use":"You need a company's standing relative to comparables, quantitatively.","tags":["sec","peers","percentile","benchmarking","xbrl"],"example_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/peers/percentile?ticker=NVDA","sample_url":"https://answerpool.io/v1/samples/peers_percentile"}]}