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search_categories

Discover the taxonomy: categories, use cases and target audiences with live product counts, plus the slugs to pass to search_products.

Auth
None
Side effects
None (read-only)
Returns
text + structuredContent

Founder.best classifies products three ways: categories (broad, e.g. “AI & Machine Learning”), use cases (what the product does, e.g. “Social Media Scheduling”) and target audiences (who it is for, e.g. “Marketers”). This tool searches all three and returns their slugs and live product counts. Call it with no query to list everything.

Parameters

querystring
Words to match against names and slugs, e.g. social, developer, finance. Omit to list all.
limitintegerdefault 20
Maximum entries per group, 1-100.

Response

structuredContent contains three arrays - categories (name, slug, description, product_count, url, api_url), use_cases and audiences (name, slug, product_count, api_url). Only use cases and audiences with at least one live product are included.

Example

Prompt
Which categories on Founder.best are about social media?

The agent calls the tool:

tools/call arguments
{ "name": "search_categories", "arguments": { "query": "social", "limit": 5 } }

and gets back Markdown for the model plus structuredContent shaped like this (trimmed):

structuredContent
{
  "categories": [
    { "name": "Social & Community", "slug": "social", "description": "Social networking and community platforms", "product_count": 15, "url": "https://www.founder.best/categories/social", "api_url": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?category=social" }
  ],
  "use_cases": [
    { "name": "Social Media Automation", "slug": "social-media-automation", "product_count": 4, "api_url": "https://www.founder.best/api/v1/products?use_case=social-media-automation" },
    { "name": "Social Media Management", "slug": "social-media-management", "product_count": 3, "api_url": "…" }
  ],
  "audiences": []
}

Notes

  • Pricing types and platforms are fixed lists and are not searched here; they are documented on search_products and returned by the REST categories endpoint.

REST equivalent

GEThttps://www.founder.best/api/v1/categories

The REST endpoint returns the full taxonomy without filtering.

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