Direct Tool API

Use the Direct Tool API when your application controls the retrieval workflow and needs structured JSON rather than a synthesized AI answer. Every endpoint accepts POST JSON requests at:

https://app.usehindsight.com/api/v1/tools/{tool-name}

Include your API key with every call:

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
Content-Type: application/json

Tool calls share authorization, role checks, rate limits, and usage accounting with their MCP equivalents. See Rate Limits for the shared per-organization limits and returned headers. The access column below shows the default role policy. Organization administrators can further restrict individual tools.

Deal Research

Endpoint	Required input	What it returns	Default access
`/tools/select-deal`	None; filters are optional	Lean, paginated analyzed-deal rows. Filter by name, semantic theme, competitor, stage, amount, close date, type, region, owner, or segment.	All roles
`/tools/get-deal`	`deal_ids` (1–10)	Full deal records, including summaries and per-competitor positioning.	All roles
`/tools/search-across-deals`	`query`	Relevant source-document chunks across all deal documents. Optional: `limit` (up to 25), `include_deal_metadata`.	All roles
`/tools/search-deal-documents`	`deal_ids`, `query`	Relevant chunks within specified deals. Optional: `document_types`, `limit` (up to 30).	All roles

For a typical deal lookup, call select-deal, then pass its returned deal_id values to get-deal. Use either document-search tool when you need source evidence rather than the deal record itself.

Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge

Endpoint	Required input	What it returns	Default access
`/tools/search-competitive-assets`	`query`, `competitor_id`	Relevant approved competitive assets and battlecards. Optional: `date_filter`, `limit` (up to 25).	All roles
`/tools/search-competitive-intel`	`query`, `competitor_id`	Relevant saved competitive intelligence. Optional: `limit` (up to 25).	All roles
`/tools/search-knowledge-base`	`query`	Relevant company knowledge-base content, such as messaging and playbooks. Optional: `limit` (up to 25).	All roles
`/tools/pull-full-document`	`doc_ids` (1–5)	Full content for documents returned by a search tool.	All roles

Web Research

Endpoint	Required input	What it returns	Default access
`/tools/search-web`	`query`	Public web search results. Optional: competitor name/ID, domain, search type, time filter, result limit, and `search_only`.	All roles
`/tools/scrape-url`	`urls` (1–5)	Markdown and optional metadata from specific public URLs. Optional: `competitor_id` to apply that competitor’s approved-domain scope.	All roles
`/tools/map-site-urls`	`url`	Discovered, filtered URLs from a site. Optional: competitor name/ID, `limit` (up to 100), and `aggressive_filter`.	All roles

search-web, scrape-url, and map-site-urls access public web content. When a competitor ID is supplied, Hindsight applies that competitor’s configured allowed-domain restrictions.

Data Analysis

Endpoint	Required input	What it returns	Default access
`/tools/pull-schema`	None	The Deal Grid schema and available column IDs. Optional: `sample_size` (1–200).	Admin, manager
`/tools/create-dataset`	None	A materialized dataset with schema and a download URL. Optional: `column_ids`, `date_range`.	Admin, manager
`/tools/analyze-dealgrid-subset`	None	Aggregated analysis tables for a Deal Grid subset. Optional: `json_id`, `filters`, `requested_tables`.	Admin, manager

Call pull-schema before create-dataset when you need custom columns. create-dataset creates a dataset record; the other listed tools are read operations.

Error Handling

All tool endpoints return JSON errors in this shape:

{
  "error": {
    "code": "bad_request",
    "message": "Invalid parameters",
    "details": {}
  }
}

Common status codes are 400 for invalid input, 401 for an invalid API key, 403 for a role without access to the tool, and 429 for a rate or monthly usage limit. For exact request and response examples of the deal lookup flow, see Select Deal and Get Deal.

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Deal Research

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​Deal Research

​Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge

​Web Research

​Data Analysis

​Error Handling

Deal Research

Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge

Web Research

Data Analysis

Error Handling