# Account research with LinkedIn data. A one-page brief before every call.

> Research a target account from LinkedIn: company facts, decision makers, their recent posts and current job openings. About $0.10 per brief.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/use-cases/account-research · Updated 2026-10-16

Before a call or a pitch: the company's size and focus, the people who decide, what they have posted lately and what the company is hiring for. One brief, a few cents, every fact dated.

- For: Account executives and founders
- Billed: Per record
- Free to start: $0.10
- Minimum top-up: $5

## How it works

1. Look up the company.
2. List its leaders by seniority and function.
3. Read the last posts of the two or three that matter, and the open roles.

## The calls

the company:

```json
{
  "op": "companies",
  "subjects": [
    "hubspot"
  ]
}
```

its leaders:

```json
{
  "op": "searchPeople",
  "company": "hubspot",
  "seniority": [
    "cxo",
    "vice_president"
  ],
  "limit": 10
}
```

## What it costs

At today's per-record prices, pay as you go. Quotes are free, records that do not come back are refunded, and a record your account already fetched today is free.

| Job | Records | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Company + 10 leaders + 15 posts + 20 jobs | 46 records | $0.094 |

## Why API for Agents

- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
- A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
- Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
- $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
- Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
- Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
- Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

## Start

The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type. Open it at https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run (sign in first).

Agents register at https://apiforagents.dev/auth.md (one POST, $0.10 free). People: https://apiforagents.dev/docs#start. Prices: https://apiforagents.dev/pricing.md