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.

Product discovery for AI agents. 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. Example output · hover to pause, or pick an answer type 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. Search returns links. Periskop returns the right products. 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 → /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. Is this just search?+ 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.