The Best Competitive Intelligence API for Autonomous AI Agents (2026)

curl -X POST https://api.intelica.dev/demo \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "Notion is an all-in-one workspace for notes, databases, and project management", "mode": "competitive"}'

{
  "company_or_product": "Notion",
  "positioning_summary": "Notion is a flexible all-in-one workspace...",
  "detected_competitors": ["Confluence", "Asana", "Monday.com"],
  "unique_angle": "Counter with specialist depth: Notion sacrifices best-in-class...",
  "confidence": "high",
  "sources": [
    "https://example.com/notion-competitors",
    "https://example.com/notion-analysis"
  ],
  "market_score": {
    "threat_level": "high",
    "moat_strength": 0.72,
    "market_maturity": "mature",
    "agent_recommendation": "counter"
  }
}

{
  "company_or_product": "Uniswap",
  "market_score": {
    "threat_level": "high",
    "moat_strength": 0.82,
    "market_maturity": "mature",
    "agent_recommendation": "monitor"
  },
  "unique_angle": "Uniswap's v4 hooks architecture and first-mover network effects create defensible liquidity moat, but regulatory risk on governance token is asymmetrically high",
  "detected_competitors": ["Curve Finance", "dYdX", "Balancer"],
  "sources": ["https://...", "https://...", "https://..."]
}

{
  "market_score": {
    "threat_level": "high",
    "moat_strength": 0.15,
    "market_maturity": "declining",
    "agent_recommendation": "monitor"
  },
  "user_pain_points": [
    "EU AI Act Article 5 prohibition on real-time biometric identification",
    "GDPR violation — no lawful basis for image scraping",
    "BIPA class action exposure: $1B+"
  ],
  "unique_angle": "Clearview's competitive advantage — massive unregulated image corpus — is simultaneously its primary regulatory liability"
}

import httpx

# Step 1: Request without payment → receive 402 challenge
response = httpx.post(
    "https://api.intelica.dev/intel",
    json={"text": "Stripe payment API", "mode": "competitive"}
)
# response.status_code == 402

# Step 2: Pay $0.05 USDC on Base or Solana
# Step 3: Retry with X-PAYMENT header
response = httpx.post(
    "https://api.intelica.dev/intel",
    json={"text": "Stripe payment API", "mode": "competitive"},
    headers={"X-PAYMENT": payment_token}
)
# response.status_code == 200

from langchain.tools import tool
import httpx

@tool
def analyze_competitor(text: str, mode: str = "competitive") -> dict:
    """Analyze a competitor using Intelica. Returns market score and positioning."""
    response = httpx.post(
        "https://api.intelica.dev/intel",
        json={"text": text, "mode": mode},
        headers={"X-PAYMENT": get_x402_token()}
    )
    return response.json()["analysis"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "intelica": {
      "url": "https://api.intelica.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

curl -X POST https://api.intelica.dev/batch \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-PAYMENT: <token>" \
  -d '{
    "items": [
      {"text": "Notion workspace", "mode": "competitive"},
      {"text": "Confluence Atlassian", "mode": "sales_enablement"},
      {"text": "Monday.com project management", "mode": "competitive"}
    ]
  }'

{
  "text": "Uniswap v4 AMM protocol",
  "mode": "crypto_protocol",
  "force_refresh": true
}