analyze_business_vertical
Analyze Business Vertical
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Use this immediately after scan_site to give the user a 'what this means for my business' framing. Detects the site's business vertical (auto dealership, law firm, healthcare, home services, ecommerce, digital agency, etc.) from JSON-LD schema + scraped text. Returns expected AI-search lift %, current competitor adoption %, and a positioning pitch tailored to the vertical. **If should_ask_user is true, the detection is low-confidence — ASK THE USER what category their business is in before continuing, rather than acting on the guessed vertical.** Also returns the site title and meta description so the calling agent can render a Site Summary card.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | Site URL. We fetch the page to detect the vertical. |
| user_provided_vertical_id | string | no | Optional. If the user has already told you their business category (e.g. 'digital_agency', 'healthcare_practice'), pass it here to skip auto-detection. Must match a known vertical id. |
| business_type | string | no | Optional free-text of what the user says they are (e.g. 'pediatric dentist'). Resolved against the schema.org/GBP taxonomy → canonical schema_type, default actions, analytics, value band (returned as `genre`). |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Site URL. We fetch the page to detect the vertical."
},
"user_provided_vertical_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional. If the user has already told you their business category (e.g. 'digital_agency', 'healthcare_practice'), pass it here to skip auto-detection. Must match a known vertical id."
},
"business_type": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional free-text of what the user says they are (e.g. 'pediatric dentist'). Resolved against the schema.org/GBP taxonomy → canonical schema_type, default actions, analytics, value band (returned as `genre`)."
}
},
"required": [
"url"
]
}