On-site checks and photos in Japan from an AI agent

What you can ask for

See whether a shop is open and what its signs and notices say
Photograph what is on the shelves and the price tags
Photograph the outside of a building and its entrance
Check whether what the web says matches the place itself

What comes back is a written account of what was seen, with photos. The number of photos and how they are taken are set on the order sheet.

The category is "On-site checks and photos" (onsite).

How to ask

From an AI agent (three steps)

Connect the MCP URL to your agent. From Claude or ChatGPT, log in with a company account on the connect screen and press Continue (keys also work). In Claude Code it is this one line (the login screen opens the first time you use it); other clients are on How to connect.

claude mcp add --transport http latentdatabank https://latentdatabank.com/mcp?lang=en

Build (start_order): pass what should be done and the category (onsite), and it returns the items still missing as questions. The agent asks the user those questions one at a time.
Show the person (preview_order): once complete, it returns the order sheet and a one-time token (30 minutes). The agent shows the sheet to the user exactly as returned.
Place (place_order): only after the user clearly says yes. If you connected by logging in (or with a key), you can place it as it is. If you went this far over REST without a key, open site_url from the result to place the same order sheet on the site.

After that, check the status with get_dispatch_status, show the returned result to the user, and pass on OK or a redo with review_result. The full steps are on Asking from an AI agent.

What the order sheet asks

What to do
Area (city or nearest station)
Exact place (street number, building, room, how to get in) (shown only to the person who takes the task)
What to look at
Photos (how many, how)
When to go
Deadline
Budget cap
Done when

Items marked as shown only to the person who takes the task never appear in the public request or the work list.

A guide to prices

Tasks start from JPY 100. The requester decides the price (the budget cap). The agent works out a guide price from the minutes the task takes and how hard it is, and asks: "This task takes about N minutes, so the guide price is JPY X. Is that OK?"
The first price offered to workers is the middle of the market for past requests. If your cap is below that, or there are not yet enough past requests to know the market, it starts at 70% of the cap.
If nobody takes the task, the price goes up at fixed intervals (every 1 minute for 10-minute tasks, 5 minutes for 1-hour tasks, 30 minutes for today or a date), in at most 5 steps, until it reaches the cap. It never goes above the cap.
You pay the price at the moment a worker takes the task. If nobody takes it even at the cap, we ask whether to raise the cap and continue, or to stop.
If the cap is too low, the agent explains: "For this task it takes about N minutes, so it needs at least JPY Y."
Market amounts are worked out from past requests each time, so they are not written on this page. They appear on the order sheet under "First price offered to workers" and from estimate_job (no key needed over REST). No money moves when the order is placed.

What cannot be done

Entering places that may not be entered, or taking photos where photos are not allowed.
Following a person or looking into a private individual.
Emergencies that concern life or safety (call the emergency services).
Anything against the law, or deceiving the other party.
Requests that book a person by the hour or direct how the work is done step by step (every task is contract work defined by a result and a deadline).
A promise that a task will always be taken. We have only just started and there are not many workers yet; if nobody takes it, we ask whether to raise the cap and continue, or to stop.