The Demand Report issue #12 cover — half a million requests, and the people in them asked how to take money back. 516,891 requests, a record; 48 searches for refunds, new to the top hundred; 3,508 agent searches, the fourth-highest week.

The Demand Report issue #11 cover — the crawler came back and the agents kept climbing. 5,551 MCP searches, a second consecutive all-time high; Stripe the most-searched name at 89; 15,050 bounces off the paid surface.

The Demand Report issue #10 cover — the noise left and the agents stayed. Requests fell 23%, distinct questions rose 8%, and 4,754 of them came from agents, an all-time high.

The Demand Report issue #09 cover — demand arrived as a stack, not a lookup. Five terms, 978 requests, one resilience stack: outage, network status, flight tracking, emergency alerts, satellite imagery.

The Demand Report issue #08 cover — discovery is free; judgement is what people tried to buy. 13,090 attempts on the paid surface, 27 gated resources reached for, and the first pro and business tier requests in the run.

The Demand Report issue #06 cover — the scarcest layer in the API economy is not contracts, it is permissions. 3,858 gated-resource attempts, 9.1% of providers publish scopes, 26,891 providers indexed.