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  "name": "IKAG",
  "alternateName": "I Know A Guy",
  "category": "Pay-per-call tools and data for AI agents",
  "categoryNote": "IKAG’s own description, not an established market category",
  "kind": "A service the AI you already use would call; not an AI model or an assistant",
  "description": "IKAG (I Know A Guy) is building one connection that gives the AI apps and agents people already use paid tools and data they can’t reach on their own, such as lead data, AI video and web data, paid per call instead of a subscription to each service. IKAG is opening to early users and data partners first. Its first tool covers company legal identity from official registries.",
  "website": "https://ikag.dev/",
  "updated": "2026-10-18",
  "status": {
    "stage": "early-access",
    "publiclyAvailable": false,
    "summary": "IKAG is opening to early users and data partners first.",
    "asOf": "2026-10-17",
    "live": [],
    "connectedAssistants": []
  },
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    "id": "company.legal_identity",
    "status": "Runs inside IKAG; early access",
    "sources": [
      "GLEIF",
      "SEC EDGAR",
      "Wikidata"
    ],
    "proof": "https://ikag.dev/agents",
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        "url": "https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394",
        "capturedAt": "2026-10-07T11:20:38Z"
      },
      {
        "source": "GLEIF",
        "record": "LEI records registered with SEC EDGAR as 0000320193 (none)",
        "url": "https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records?filter[entity.registeredAs]=0000320193&filter[entity.registeredAt]=RA000665",
        "capturedAt": "2026-10-07T12:40:01Z"
      },
      {
        "source": "SEC EDGAR",
        "record": "Submissions record for CIK 0000320193",
        "url": "https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000320193.json",
        "capturedAt": "2026-08-29"
      },
      {
        "source": "Wikidata",
        "record": "Item Q312 (reduced to identity statements)",
        "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q312.json",
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      },
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        "source": "GLEIF",
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        "url": "https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300NZAMSJ8FXPQQ63",
        "capturedAt": "2026-10-07T11:23:55Z"
      },
      {
        "source": "GLEIF",
        "record": "Legal-name search for SPDR S&P 500 ETF TRUST",
        "url": "https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records?filter[entity.legalName]=SPDR%20S%26P%20500%20ETF%20TRUST&page[size]=10",
        "capturedAt": "2026-10-07T12:40:03Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "pricing": {
    "direction": "Pay per call, with no subscription to each service",
    "directionStatus": "A direction, not final terms",
    "managedSources": "Would be quoted before a call runs and billed through IKAG, per call",
    "yourOwnKey": "That provider’s plan and charges still apply; IKAG may charge separately for its part",
    "publicSources": "Whether IKAG will charge for calls to public sources is not decided",
    "pricesPublished": false,
    "note": "No prices or terms have been set. They will be published before IKAG charges anyone."
  },
  "announcedPartners": [],
  "announcedCustomers": [],
  "contact": "hello@ikag.dev",
  "forms": {
    "open": true,
    "earlyAccess": "https://ikag.dev/#early-access",
    "partnerEnquiry": "https://ikag.dev/partners#enquiry"
  },
  "facts": [
    {
      "term": "Name",
      "detail": "IKAG, short for I Know A Guy"
    },
    {
      "term": "Founder",
      "detail": "Ronit Ahuja"
    },
    {
      "term": "What it is",
      "detail": "Pay-per-call tools and data for AI agents: one connection between the AI apps and agents people already use and the paid tools and data they cannot reach on their own. Not an AI model or an assistant: a service the AI you already use calls."
    },
    {
      "term": "What it will do",
      "detail": "Let the AI apps and agents people already use call paid tools and data (lead and work contact data, AI video, web data, local business listings, social media data and company records) through one connection, paid per call instead of a subscription to each service, with each result returned with what it cost and where its data came from."
    },
    {
      "term": "Limits",
      "detail": "Tools and sources can be wrong or out of date, so IKAG cannot promise an answer is right. It returns where each result came from; the assistant using it decides whether and how to show it."
    },
    {
      "term": "Status",
      "detail": "Early access. IKAG is opening to early users and data partners first. Its first tool covers company legal identity from GLEIF, SEC EDGAR and Wikidata; lead data, AI video, web data and the other tools come next, and no provider is named until one is agreed."
    },
    {
      "term": "Who it is for",
      "detail": "AI power users, vibe coders and anyone building AI apps, automations or agents, with or without code; developers; and data and API providers"
    },
    {
      "term": "Ways it will reach tools and data",
      "detail": "Public sources (the first tool), managed integrations with providers (each depends on an agreement with that provider) and your own provider keys"
    },
    {
      "term": "Pricing direction",
      "detail": "Pay per call, with no subscription to each service. Managed calls would be quoted before they run. With your own provider key, that provider’s plan and charges still apply, and IKAG may charge separately for its part. No prices have been published."
    },
    {
      "term": "Announced partners, customers or live integrations",
      "detail": "None"
    },
    {
      "term": "Website",
      "detail": "ikag.dev"
    },
    {
      "term": "Not to be confused with",
      "detail": "Other businesses that use the names IKAG or I Know A Guy. IKAG at ikag.dev is not affiliated with them."
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "forDevelopers": "https://ikag.dev/agents",
    "partners": "https://ikag.dev/partners",
    "llmsTxt": "https://ikag.dev/llms.txt",
    "llmsFullTxt": "https://ikag.dev/llms-full.txt",
    "blog": "https://ikag.dev/blog",
    "feed": "https://ikag.dev/blog/rss.xml",
    "sitemap": "https://ikag.dev/sitemap.xml"
  }
}