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# Market map / shortlist
> Request a bounded selection against a supplied market definition.
**Current availability:** Reviewed bounded request. **Execution:** Manual / scoped. **Automated invocation:** Not currently available. **API endpoint:** None. **MCP execution:** None.
Canonical task ID: `bounded-shortlist`.
## When to use this task
Use when you need a small research shortlist rather than an unrestricted database search.
## Build a bounded market map
Fictional request brief, entities, sources, values and dates. This is a documentation example, not a live HTTP response or customer result. Missing dates remain null.
A research brief for human scope review, not an API payload.
```json theme={null}
{
"market": "Industrial automation",
"geography": "United Kingdom",
"criteria": [
"Industrial automation activity"
],
"requested_result_count": 2,
"intended_use": "Initial company research"
}
```
```json theme={null}
{
"task_type": "bounded-shortlist",
"status": "supported_with_unknowns",
"entity": null,
"subject": {
"entity_type": null,
"name": null,
"website": null,
"research_scope": "UK industrial automation companies matching supplied research criteria; two illustrative results"
},
"as_of": null,
"result": {
"summary": "Two fictional companies illustrate a bounded selection against supplied UK industrial-automation criteria; not an exhaustive market map.",
"company": null,
"criteria": [],
"sections": [
{
"entity_type": "company",
"data": {
"name": "Example Automation Ltd",
"description": "Industrial automation company",
"website": "https://example.com",
"sector": "Industrial automation",
"subsector": null,
"location": null,
"country": "United Kingdom",
"founded_year": null,
"employee_count": null,
"ownership_context": [
{
"name": "Example Industrial Holdings",
"role": "Recorded parent organization",
"date": null,
"amount": null,
"currency": null
}
],
"people": [
{
"name": "Jamie Chen",
"role": "Chief Executive",
"date": null,
"amount": null,
"currency": null
}
],
"transactions": [
{
"name": "Example Controls Ltd",
"role": "Acquisition target",
"date": "2026-09-12",
"amount": null,
"currency": null
}
]
}
},
{
"entity_type": "company",
"data": {
"name": "Example Sensors Ltd",
"description": "Fictional industrial sensing company.",
"website": null,
"sector": "Industrial automation",
"subsector": null,
"location": null,
"country": "United Kingdom",
"founded_year": null,
"employee_count": null,
"ownership_context": null,
"people": null,
"transactions": null
}
}
]
},
"evidence": [
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.name",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.description",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated description entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.website",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated website entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.sector",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated sector entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.country",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated country entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.ownership_context",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated ownership context entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.people",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated people entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.transactions",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated transactions entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.1.data.name",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-2",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.1.data.description",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-2",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated description entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.1.data.sector",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-2",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated sector entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.1.data.country",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-2",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated country entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
}
],
"unknowns": [
"Current ownership of the second company",
"Completeness of the market"
],
"limitations": [
"Fictional entities, sources, values and dates; no real customer result or live execution.",
"Source coverage and output use remain subject to the agreed purpose and rights review."
],
"rights": {
"scope": "A task purchases the agreed bounded result, not database access, unrestricted API queries, contacts export or graph redistribution. Sources and unknowns accompany results. Purchaser authorization, scope acceptance, agreement and payment are required before manual fulfillment; no automated external task service is offered.",
"raw_graph_access": false,
"bulk_export": false,
"graph_redistribution": false
}
}
```
Each field path identifies the particular value supported by the source note.
| Field path | Illustrated value | Source type | Basis |
| ----------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| result.sections.0.data.name | "Example Automation Ltd" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.description | "Industrial automation company" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated description entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.website | "[https://example.com](https://example.com)" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated website entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.sector | "Industrial automation" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated sector entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.country | "United Kingdom" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated country entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.ownership\_context | \[\{"name":"Example Industrial Holdings","role":"Recorded parent organization","date":null,"amount":null,"currency":null}] | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated ownership context entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.people | \[\{"name":"Jamie Chen","role":"Chief Executive","date":null,"amount":null,"currency":null}] | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated people entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.transactions | \[\{"name":"Example Controls Ltd","role":"Acquisition target","date":"2026-09-12","amount":null,"currency":null}] | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated transactions entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.1.data.name | "Example Sensors Ltd" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.1.data.description | "Fictional industrial sensing company." | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated description entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.1.data.sector | "Industrial automation" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated sector entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.1.data.country | "United Kingdom" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated country entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
```json theme={null}
[
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.name",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.description",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated description entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.website",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated website entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.sector",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated sector entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.country",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated country entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.ownership_context",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated ownership context entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.people",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated people entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.transactions",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated transactions entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.1.data.name",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-2",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.1.data.description",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-2",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated description entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.1.data.sector",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-2",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated sector entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.1.data.country",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-2",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated country entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
}
]
```
## Availability
LIMITED · manual / reviewed request. Automated invocation: not currently callable (automatedInvocation=false).
Market map / shortlist is a documentation template for Bounded shortlist / market map. It is not a new commercial product or invocation transport. The commercial product is Altss Agents.
Use when you need a small research shortlist rather than an unrestricted database search.
## Required input
* Market and geography
* Inclusion criteria
* Requested result count within published scope
* Intended use
## Helpful optional input
* Exclusion criteria
* Reference organizations
* Priority of criteria
## Criteria
* Make inclusion and exclusion criteria explicit; unresolved criteria must be identified.
## Entity and scope
Accepted entity types: organization, company, family-office, institutional-investor.
Maximum published scope: Up to 10 organizations in one agreed market.
Existing task input: Market, geography, criteria and requested result count.
## Possible result sections
A bounded selection with a reason and sources for each result
* Selected organization identities
* Reason for inclusion
* Evidence per result
* Unknowns and limits
## Evidence and unknowns
Available fields depend on source coverage and the agreed purpose. Supporting sources are attached to permitted facts; missing publication, capture, observation or verification dates remain unknown. A source statement is not automatically a verified fact.
A bounded shortlist is not exhaustive market coverage, a ranking guarantee or a bulk export.
Private contact information or customer context is not included by default. Access to a source or a subscription is not blanket permission to redistribute it.
## Rights and review
A task purchases the agreed bounded result, not database access, unrestricted API queries, contacts export or graph redistribution. Sources and unknowns accompany results. Purchaser authorization, scope acceptance, agreement and payment are required before manual fulfillment; no automated external task service is offered.
Scope and price are agreed before agreement, payment and accepted work.
The buyer must authorize the intended purpose and accepted scope. Human review is required before relying on an assessment or using a draft. No message is sent on the buyer’s behalf.
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* [Result format and fictional example](/results)
* [Evidence and date meanings](/evidence-and-dates)