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Periskop – product discovery (MCP/API) for AI agents

Periskop launches a product discovery API for AI agents, offering structured, hallucination-free shopping results via MCP or REST. The service returns in-stock products with live prices and merchant links, replacing slow web crawling for AI shopping assistants and automation workflows.

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Periskop – product discovery (MCP/API) for AI agents
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Cheap, reliable, hallucination-free product discovery for the agents you're building. One MCP/API call turns shopping intent into real, in-stock products, with live prices and working merchant links.

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Use Periskop through MCP or REST. #

Connect the MCP server to Claude Code, Cursor, and other ChatGPT-compatible or custom agent runtimes, or call the REST endpoint from any app backend. Keys, usage, billing, docs, and OpenAPI live in the developer portal.

// MCP, Claude Code, Cursor, custom agent runtimes
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "periskop": {
      "url": "https://mcp.periskop.ai",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dp_..." }
    }
  }
}
// REST, from any app backend
POST /shopping/discover
Authorization: Bearer dp_...
{ "prompt": "...", "mode": "bundle" }

Create a project, mint a key, and call run_shopping_discovery. Every result carries a result_id, re-fetch it with get_discovery_result.

Drop Periskop into your existing automation stack, native steps for Dify, n8n, and Pipedream.

A generic agent searches, opens page after page, and re-reads it with an LLM on every request, slow, token-heavy, unreliable. Periskop returns the products in one structured call, with a paste-ready reply your agent renders directly.

Onboarded does not mean trusted. #

Periskop validates store structure, product extraction, price readability, link validity, image presence, and stability before a store can influence recommendations. Stores earn the right to shape recommendations.

  • Accessible

  • Product pages found

  • Product cards detected

  • Product extraction

  • Price readability

  • Link validity

  • Image presence

  • Stability / latency

Trusted, can shape best picks** Limited**, alternatives or restricted contexts** Rejected**, cannot influence recommendations

Checkout was always solved. Knowing what to buy wasn't, until Periskop. #

Payments, carts, and fulfillment already have a hundred providers, that part was never the problem. The unanswered question is the valuable one: out of everything for sale, what should your agent actually recommend? Periskop is that layer. It finds the right in-stock products and hands off a clean merchant link; your existing rails do the rest.

  • Intent understanding
  • Retrieval
  • Ranking
  • Alternatives
  • Bundles
  • Caveats
  • Match quality
  • Merchant links

Stripe · merchants · your storefront

  • Checkout
  • Payments
  • Orders
  • Fulfillment
  • Returns

One call. Build whatever needs live products and prices. #

The same run_shopping_discovery call powers a chat assistant, a computer-use agent, a price-monitoring bot, an arbitrage scanner, a procurement workflow, a commerce copilot, a whole shopping app, and whatever you imagine next. You ship the experience; Periskop is the one call underneath.

Real, in-stock picks dropped straight into chat, ranked, priced, and linked.

See pricing →

Product discovery for the agents you are building. #

For AI shopping assistants, browser and computer-use agents, procurement workflows, commerce copilots, recommendation systems, and AI-native shopping apps.

Common questions #

What is Periskop?+ #

Periskop is product discovery for AI agents. One MCP/API call turns a shopping request into real, in-stock products, with live prices, working merchant links, alternatives, inferred bundles, caveats, a paste-ready reply, and a result_id, so your agent can recommend instead of crawling the web on every request.

Who is this for?+ #

Developers building AI shopping assistants, browser and computer-use agents, procurement and ops workflows, commerce copilots, recommendation features, accessibility shopping, and AI-native shopping apps.

How does it work?+ #

You send a prompt to run_shopping_discovery over MCP or REST. Periskop retrieves and ranks across quality-gated merchants and returns a structured response, items or an inferred bundle, plus a paste-ready suggested_agent_reply and next_actions, your agent renders directly. No per-site browsing, no runtime scraping.

Do merchants need to integrate?+ #

No. Periskop validates store structure, extraction, prices, links, images, and stability so only quality-gated, discovery-ready supply can influence results. Merchants don't lift a finger.

No. Search returns links you still have to open and reason over. Periskop returns the products themselves, ranked, in-stock, priced, and linked, in one call, with match_quality and caveats.

Do you handle checkout or carts?+ #

No. No checkout, no payments, merchant links only. Periskop never buys, places orders, or creates merchant checkout carts. Users complete purchases on merchant sites.

What happens when no good product exists?+ #

Periskop marks items match_quality: null and returns caveats rather than a forced or hallucinated pick, plus the closest matches and alternatives. Every result carries a result_id, so you can re-fetch it later with get_discovery_result.

What is the MCP/API?+ #

An MCP server for agent runtimes (Claude Code, Cursor, custom agents) and a REST endpoint for app backends. Keys, usage, billing, docs, and OpenAPI live in the developer portal.

How does pricing work?+ #

Usage-based: €7 per 1,000 shopping requests, with free credits on your first API key. Early access is founder-led onboarding.

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