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Map a market before you enter it. Players, prices, demand and complaints.

Market research maps who sells what, at what price, how much demand exists and where buyers are unhappy. With Agentik, your AI finds the companies with Exa, reads their pricing pages with Firecrawl, measures search demand and trends with DataForSEO, and hears buyers on Hacker News and X.

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Prices from the live catalog · updated

One request to your AI5 providers, 5 steps, one connection
  1. Step 1: Find the playersExa$0.03
  2. Step 2: Read their pricingFirecrawl and Browser Use$0.05
  3. Step 3: Measure demandDataForSEO$0.11
  4. Step 4: Hear the buyersHacker News and X$0.25
  5. Step 5: Write the market mapYour AI, no tool call

Paid from one prepaid balanceat most $0.43

Why 5 providers

Each provider does one part. Your AI does the rest.

No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection.

  1. Exa

    The companies in the space, found by what they do rather than by keywords.

    1 tool · step 1$0.03

  2. Firecrawl

    Each company’s pricing and product pages, as text.

    1 tool · step 2$0.05

  3. DataForSEO

    Monthly Google searches for the category, and five years of Google Trends.

    2 tools · step 3$0.11

  4. Hacker News

    Threads where buyers compare tools and complain.

    1 tool · step 4Free

  5. X

    This week’s posts from buyers about the category.

    1 tool · step 4$0.25

Without Agentik

4 accounts, 4 API keys, 4 bills, and 1 open API to learn.

  • ExaSign-up, card, API key, bill
  • FirecrawlSign-up, card, API key, bill
  • DataForSEOSign-up, card, API key, bill
  • Hacker NewsOpen API: its own format and limits
  • XSign-up, card, API key, bill

Then code to call each API, retry it and join the results before your AI can use them.

With Agentik

One connection. One prepaid balance.

  • Company search, page reading, search demand and buyer opinion come from five providers through one connection.
  • Hacker News is free; your agent quotes the rest, and any browser task, before running.
  • Your AI shows the price before each call, and a call that ends in an error is refunded.

Step by step

How to map a market in Claude or ChatGPT. Step by step.

Prices are for this example: One market in the United States, 25 companies found, 10 pricing pages read, 50 keywords measured, 5 trend terms, 50 Hacker News comments and 50 posts on X. They are the most each call can reserve at today’s catalog prices.

  1. Step 1: Find the players

    Exa

    Exa searches by meaning, so it finds companies that describe themselves differently.

    Tools called in step 1
    Web searchexa/search25 companiesat most $0.03

  2. Step 2: Read their pricing

    Firecrawl and Browser Use

    Firecrawl reads the pricing pages. When a page needs clicks, such as a monthly or yearly toggle, a browser agent reads it instead.

    Tools called in step 2
    Scrape a page to markdownfirecrawl/scrape10 pagesat most $0.05
    Autonomous browser taskbrowser-use/run-task2 pages · optionalat most $0.50

  3. Step 3: Measure demand

    DataForSEO

    Google Ads volumes for 50 category keywords, and Google Trends over five years.

    Tools called in step 3
    Keyword search volumedataforseo/google-ads-search-volume50 keywordsat most $0.09
    Google Trendsdataforseo/google-trends5 terms, 5 yearsat most $0.02

  4. Step 4: Hear the buyers

    Hacker News and X

    Hacker News comments and this week’s posts on X about the category.

    Tools called in step 4
    Hacker News searchhackernews/search50 commentsFree
    Recent searchx/search-recent50 postsat most $0.25

  5. Step 5: Write the market map

    Your AI

    Your AI builds the map, compares the offers and names the gaps, with a source for each claim.

What you get

What you get: a market map with prices and demand. In your conversation.

You provide

  • The market, in a sentence
  • Your country
  • Companies you already know (optional)

Your AI returns

  • 25 companies in the space, with what they do
  • A pricing table: plans, entry price, what each includes
  • Search demand for the category and its trend over five years
  • What buyers praise and complain about, and the gaps worth taking
Market mapExample layout
CompanyPositioningEntry priceSearch demandComplaints
Competitor ASales teamsAccuracy
Competitor BAgenciesPrice
Competitor CEnterpriseSetup

Placeholders: your rows come from your run.

Give this to your agent
Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: market research. Map a market for me. First ask me for the market in a sentence, my country and any companies I already know. Find the companies with exa/search. Read the pricing pages of the ten closest with firecrawl/scrape; if a page hides prices behind a toggle or a form, use browser-use/run-task. Measure demand for the category’s keywords with dataforseo/google-ads-search-volume and five years of interest with dataforseo/google-trends. Read what buyers say with hackernews/search and x/search-recent. Finish with a market map (company, positioning, entry price, plans), demand and trend, the main complaints, and three gaps worth taking. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged.

The prompt

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor.

Once Agentik is connected, your AI asks for your inputs, checks each tool and shows the price before anything runs.

Or ask it your way

  • “Map the European e-bike subscription market: players, prices and demand.”
  • “Which AI meeting note takers sell to sales teams, and at what price?”
  • “Is search demand for home batteries growing in Germany?”
  • “What do buyers complain about in current invoicing tools?”

What it costs

At most $0.43. From one balance.

Each provider’s own price, with 0% markup. Each call reserves at most the amount shown, is billed for what it actually used, and the rest is released. A call that ends in an error is refunded.

This exampleat today’s catalog prices

Exa$0.03

  • Web search25 companies$0.03

Firecrawl$0.05

  • Scrape a page to markdown10 pages$0.05

DataForSEO$0.11

  • Keyword search volume50 keywords$0.09
  • Google Trends5 terms, 5 years$0.02

Hacker NewsFree

  • Hacker News search50 commentsFree

X$0.25

  • Recent search50 posts$0.25

Total, at most$0.43

Not in the total, run only if needed: Autonomous browser task (Browser Use), $0.50.

Good to know

  • Pricing pages change often: the map is dated with the day it was read.
  • Search volume measures demand from search only; markets sold through other channels can be larger.

When to use something else

For audited market sizes and forecasts, buy an analyst report; Agentik maps the market from public sources, with links.

Questions

Market research: straight answers.

Still unsure? Ask us.

Can it size the market?

It gives demand signals with sources: searches, trends and the companies serving them. A market size in dollars needs published estimates, which your agent cites when it finds them.

Couldn’t I just use one research tool?

No single provider finds companies, reads pages, measures search demand and reads buyers’ posts. Through Agentik your AI uses five from one connection; the example costs at most $0.43.

What does the example cost?

At most $0.43, without browser tasks: they are quoted only when a pricing page needs one.

Keep going

More playbooks for your AI.

  • DataForSEO, Adspy.sh and Exa

    Amazon product research

    Amazon search demand, the listings that win and their sellers, seasonality, who advertises, and what buyers complain about.

    3 providers7 toolsexample at most $0.18

  • X, Hacker News, DataForSEO and Serper

    Social listening

    Posts on X, Hacker News threads, YouTube comments and news coverage, read together and sorted into themes.

    4 providers6 toolsexample at most $1.25

  • Firecrawl, Serper, SEC EDGAR and Icypeas

    Account research

    Their site, latest news, official filings and the profiles of the people you’ll meet, in a one-page brief with sources.

    4 providers6 toolsexample at most $0.12

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