feat(ecosystem): add AI Talent Atlas — researcher intelligence API

[FuturMix]

Description

Adds AI Talent Atlas to the x402 ecosystem page as a Services/Endpoints provider.

AI Talent Atlas is a pay-per-request data API serving structured intelligence on 643 AI researchers across 14 major labs. Agents and developers can query researcher profiles, organizational charts, talent flow matrices, co-author networks, and departure tracking — all via x402 micropayments.

x402 Integration

• Website: https://www.agentrift.tech
• Price range: $0.01–$0.50 USDC per request
• Network: Base (eip155:8453)
• Scheme: exact
• Facilitator: xpay.sh (zero-fee, non-custodial)
• 8 paid endpoints + 2 free endpoints

Endpoints

Endpoint	Price	Description
GET /api/v1/researchers	$0.01	Search researchers (filters: org, dept, status, chinese, q)
GET /api/v1/researcher/:id	$0.02	Full researcher profile
GET /api/v1/org/:name	$0.03	Organization chart + all researchers
GET /api/v1/talent-flow	$0.05	Talent flow matrix (148 movements)
GET /api/v1/coauthors/:name	$0.03	Cross-org co-author network
GET /api/v1/departures	$0.02	Departure tracking
GET /api/v1/chinese-talent	$0.03	Chinese AI researchers across all labs
POST /api/v1/bulk-export	$0.50	Full CSV/JSON export

Data Coverage

• 643 researchers across 14 organizations: OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, ByteDance, Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Apple, Mistral, Amazon, DeepSeek
• h-index and citation data (Semantic Scholar + DBLP)
• Contact information (X, LinkedIn, personal websites)
• 3,492 cross-org co-author pairs
• 148 talent flow movements

Files

• typescript/site/app/ecosystem/partners-data/ai-talent-atlas/metadata.json
• typescript/site/public/logos/ai-talent-atlas.png (512x512 PNG)

Category

Services/Endpoints, with typeLabel: "Data".

Tests

• Verified metadata.json parses as valid JSON
• Logo is 512x512 PNG

AI tools were used in preparing this submission.

[cb-heimdall]

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[TateLyman]

Quick no-payment discovery check on the submitted site. No payment headers, signatures, wallet, API key, or paid calls.

Repro:

npx --yes x402-surface-check@latest https://www.agentrift.tech --limit 8 --origin https://www.agentrift.tech
for p in /.well-known/x402 /.well-known/agent.json /openapi.json /api/openapi.json /llms.txt; do curl -i https://www.agentrift.tech | head; done

Observed: the public page is reachable, but the common machine-readable discovery paths I checked all return the HTML landing page rather than JSON/OpenAPI/llms text. If this listing is only meant to point humans at a product page, that may be fine. If it is meant to be discoverable by agents from the x402 ecosystem directory, I would add at least one canonical machine-readable entrypoint, for example:

• /.well-known/x402 or /.well-known/agent.json with paid endpoint URLs, methods, prices, network, asset, and facilitator.
• /openapi.json with the paid routes and 402 response shape.
• /llms.txt with a short agent-readable capability description and the discovery URL.

That would make it easier for agents and registry scanners to verify the paid API surface without guessing from the HTML page.