company research · $5 budget

Investment memo: Stripe

Generate a high-confidence investment memo on Stripe with multi-source verification and citations, on a $5 budget.

Sample request

POST /v1/missions
{
  "goal": "Investment memo for Stripe — funding rounds, headcount, recent product launches, key risks, two competitors.",
  "mission_type": "company_research",
  "budget_usd": 5,
  "constraints": {
    "public_data_only": true,
    "min_sources": 4,
    "freshness_days": 30,
    "require_citations": true
  }
}
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Why this is hard without a governance layer

An investment memo on a private company touches half a dozen vendor categories: web search for press, company-data providers for funding/headcount, news APIs for recent moves, social profiles for team signal, verification for cross-checking facts, and an inference vendor for the final synthesis. Doing this with raw API calls means six contracts, six rate-limit policies, six failure modes, and zero cross-source consistency.

How Mission Control runs it

Submit a company_research mission with budget_usd=5 and constraints.min_sources=4. Mission Control's planner emits a typed 6-step DAG; the Smart Router scores candidates per step (recent verification pass rate, latency, price stability, certified status); the Policy Engine authorizes each step against your single-call cap; the Payment Executor settles via x402 with payment-identifier idempotency. The Verifier runs the deterministic + cross-source layers; the synthesis step writes the memo.

What you get back

A memo with confidence_score (typically 0.85–0.97), a list of cited sources, a route explanation that names every chosen vendor and why, the receipt id for every paid call, and the audit_url for the hash-chained event log. Average completed mission runs $1.40–$3.20 of $5 budget; full lifecycle in 8–18 seconds with mock vendors, 30–90s with real x402.

When to use a higher budget

If you need >4 sources, freshness <14 days, or compete-grade detail (governance moves, exec changes by quarter), bump budget_usd=10. The router will pick higher-priced vendors with better verification pass rates, and the LLM synthesis step gets more headroom.

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