{"service":"Realask","summary":"Ask the real world a current question about a US local business and get a structured, time-stamped, confidence-scored answer - and, where enabled, have something arranged there on a named customer's behalf with proof of what was agreed.","when_to_use":"The fact changes faster than the web reflects it, or was never published: today's stock, a real all-in price, same-day availability, an edge-case capability, a policy exception, the current wait. Use this instead of guessing from a listing, a cached page, or opening hours.","when_not_to_use":"The answer is reliably published and stable. Search is cheaper and faster for that.","arranges":[],"arranging_limits":["Never negotiates, haggles, or asks for a discount","Never pays, and never gives card or bank details: the customer pays the business directly","Never agrees above the maximum price you set","Never substitutes a different item, time, or business than the one you specified","Shares only the customer name and callback number you supply, nothing else","Commits to exactly one business per job, and can never commit twice"],"arranging_requires":"not enabled on this deployment","verifies":[{"job_type":"single_business","answers":"Does one specific business have or do X right now, and at what price?","example_request":"Does ABC Tire have two Michelin Pilot Sport 4S 235/40R19 in stock today and what is the installed price?","returns":["in_stock","quantity_available","installed_price_minor","earliest_availability"],"typical_price":{"amount_minor":150,"currency":"USD"},"typical_completion_seconds":180,"max_businesses":1,"deliverable":["business","confirmed_match","availability","price_if_provided","verified_at","evidence","confidence","freshness","limitations"]},{"job_type":"find_any","answers":"Find any nearby business that can satisfy X today; stop at the first confirmed match.","example_request":"Find a phone repair shop within 8 miles that can replace an iPhone 16 Pro screen today.","returns":["best_match","alternatives_attempted","in_stock","earliest_availability"],"typical_price":{"amount_minor":400,"currency":"USD"},"typical_completion_seconds":300,"max_businesses":5,"deliverable":["best_match","alternatives_attempted","business","confirmed_match","availability","price_if_provided","verified_at","evidence","confidence","freshness","limitations"]},{"job_type":"compare","answers":"Collect comparable facts from several businesses and rank them.","example_request":"Check up to five shops and find the lowest installed price for two tires today.","returns":["ranked_businesses","installed_price_minor","availability"],"typical_price":{"amount_minor":900,"currency":"USD"},"typical_completion_seconds":420,"max_businesses":5,"deliverable":["ranked_businesses","business","confirmed_match","availability","price_if_provided","verified_at","evidence","confidence","freshness","limitations"]},{"job_type":"capability","answers":"Can a business perform an unusual or edge-case job, and under what constraints?","example_request":"Can a local print shop print white ink on this material by Friday?","returns":["can_perform","by_deadline","constraints","quoted_price_minor"],"typical_price":{"amount_minor":400,"currency":"USD"},"typical_completion_seconds":300,"max_businesses":5,"deliverable":["capable_businesses","constraints","business","confirmed_match","availability","price_if_provided","verified_at","evidence","confidence","freshness","limitations"]},{"job_type":"policy","answers":"Will a specific business accept a policy exception?","example_request":"Will this hotel accept a 1 a.m. check-in and oversized vehicle parking?","returns":["policy_confirmed","conditions"],"typical_price":{"amount_minor":200,"currency":"USD"},"typical_completion_seconds":240,"max_businesses":1,"deliverable":["policy_confirmation","conditions","answered_by_role","business","confirmed_match","availability","price_if_provided","verified_at","evidence","confidence","freshness","limitations"]},{"job_type":"status","answers":"What is the current status right now: walk-ins, wait time, open?","example_request":"Is the restaurant accepting walk-ins and what is the current wait?","returns":["accepting_walk_ins","current_wait_minutes"],"typical_price":{"amount_minor":100,"currency":"USD"},"typical_completion_seconds":120,"max_businesses":1,"deliverable":["current_status","wait_time_if_stated","freshness_warning","business","confirmed_match","availability","price_if_provided","verified_at","evidence","confidence","freshness","limitations"]}],"coverage":{"country":"US","max_businesses_per_job":5,"max_job_seconds":600,"business_types":"any public-facing local business with a callable phone number"},"freshness":{"model":"Three sources, tried in order. (1) A business that has connected its live inventory or booking system answers from its own data, source merchant_feed, at its earned reliability. (2) A fresh fact verified on an earlier call answers from the cache, source cached_verified_fact. (3) Otherwise the business is called, source live_business_call. Every fact carries observed_at, an age and its source.","merchant_feed":"confidence on a merchant_feed fact is that merchant's reliability: how often its feed has agreed with live calls. Below 0.80 the answer is marked uncertain and the business is called to verify.","cached_fact_price":{"amount_minor":25,"currency":"USD"},"windows_seconds":{"volatile":1200,"daily":21600,"stable":2592000},"force_live":"set verification_mode to live_verified on the quote to require a new call"},"confidence":{"scale":"0-1, attached to every fact","0.95-1.00":"direct, unambiguous employee statement, critical values repeated back and confirmed","0.80-0.94":"directly stated once","0.60-0.79":"hedged or indirect: reported as uncertain, never as verified","below_0_60":"returned as unconfirmed evidence only","conflicts":"surfaced explicitly, never averaged into a single number","guarantee":"answer.best_match.facts contains only confirmed values; everything else is in fact_details with its status"},"payment":{"protocol":"x402","x402Version":2,"scheme":"exact","network":"eip155:8453","payTo":"0x8B4d990B8F59ae2e2E169DF4aEfBfdaF12d33fF5","facilitator":"coinbase-cdp","resource":"https://realask.net/v1/jobs","bazaar_discoverable":true,"description":"Ask the real world a question and get a structured, time-stamped, confidence-scored answer. Verifies current facts about a specific US local business - in stock, price, same-day availability, whether it can do an unusual job, a policy exception, current wait time - by calling the business and extracting typed facts with evidence. Use when web and profile data are missing, stale, or unreliable. Get a price from POST /v1/quotes first; this endpoint buys that quote and returns a job_id to poll. Returns the answer, not a transcript.","tags":["verification","ground-truth","local-business","phone-call","real-time-data","availability","inventory","pricing","confirm","fact-check"],"quotes_are_free":true,"price_fixed_at_quote_time":true,"idempotency":"send Idempotency-Key on POST /v1/jobs; retries never double-charge or double-call"},"endpoints":{"capabilities":"https://realask.net/v1/capabilities","quote":"https://realask.net/v1/quotes","purchase":"https://realask.net/v1/jobs","status":"https://realask.net/v1/jobs/{job_id}","result":"https://realask.net/v1/jobs/{job_id}/result","openapi":"https://realask.net/openapi.json","mcp":"https://realask.net/mcp","llms":"https://realask.net/llms.txt"},"not_supported":["Anything outside the United States","Sales, marketing, solicitation, political persuasion, debt collection, or repeated contact","Negotiating, ordering, booking, or committing on the caller's behalf","Medical, legal, emergency, or financial-trading questions","Requests for personal or sensitive data about anyone","Businesses with no callable public phone number"]}