The question

Not which wallet bought and not which token is pumping, but:

Which projects are still building, what have they shipped, and which of them is nobody looking at?

Every answer on HEY is a fact with the source it came from. There is no score of a project's worth, no grade, no verdict, and the words rug and scam appear nowhere in the product — an end-to-end test asserts it.

What it looks like

Explore the catalogue	One project's evidence

Builder Radar	HEY Signal

More surfaces: Pulse, Ships, Scout, Bounties, Developers, Methodology, mobile

Pulse — the chain, day by day	Ships — what landed

Scout — earn by finding evidence	Bounties — set in dollars, paid in HEY

Developers	Methodology — every rule, stated

Home, 375px	A project, 375px

Captured from production on 20 September 2026.

In this repository

This is the published half of HEY: the parts that stand on their own and are safe to read.

The ingestion pipeline, the quality gate, the database schema, the web app and the operations tooling stay in the private repository.

Quickstart

Use the packages from npm (published 27 September 2026):

npm i @hey-research-lab/sdk                                   # the typed client
claude mcp add hey-research -- npx -y @hey-research-lab/mcp   # the MCP server

Or build this tree:

pnpm install
pnpm lint && pnpm typecheck && pnpm test     # 686 tests, no network
pnpm --filter @hey-research-lab/sdk build        # packages/sdk/dist
pnpm --filter @hey-research-lab/mcp build        # apps/mcp/dist/index.js

Use the API

No key needed for the read API. 120 requests a minute anonymously, more with a key.

One address, one line — the call a trading bot makes:

curl "https://heyresearch.xyz/api/v1/scan?chain=4663&token=0xB33eb16782776b4D738c0Fd643577cb0284Db610"

{
  "found": true,
  "status": "shipping",
  "status_label": "Shipping",
  "verified_builder": true,
  "activity": { "commits_30d": 100, "releases_30d": 1, "ships_30d": 3, "last_ship": "2026-09-18" },
  "project_url": "https://heyresearch.xyz/project/hey-research-lab",
  "cta": { "label": "See the builder on HEY", "url": "…" }
}

A token HEY has no published page for answers 200 with found: false, so a bot prints nothing rather than guessing.

The same thing, typed:

import { HeyClient, HeyApiError } from '@hey-research-lab/sdk';

const hey = new HeyClient();
const card = await hey.scanCard(4663, address);
if (!card.found) return null;

for await (const project of hey.projects.items({ tab: 'still-building' })) {
  console.log(project.slug, project.lastShippedAt ?? 'no ship recorded');
}

A listed project with a token carries tokenMarket — the market state the card shows — and the single-project route sends everything the listing does. /api/projects/{slug}/market adds the contract's deployer, its pools and 1% depth, and a supply-concentration summary with no addresses (2026-09-25).

/api/projects/{slug}/relationships lists what a project is connected to and why HEY thinks so — every edge with its standing and evidence, never an account and never a "partnership" — and the snapshot's peerContext places some of its figures among comparable projects, one figure at a time, never as a combined score (2026-09-28).

Paging follows the API's own cursor, a 429 arrives as HeyApiError with retryAfterSeconds and is never retried for you, and an absent field means HEY does not know — never a zero.

For an assistant — fourteen read-only tools over the same API, hosted or on your machine:

claude mcp add --transport http hey-research https://heyresearch.xyz/mcp

# or locally
pnpm --filter @hey-research-lab/mcp build
claude mcp add hey-research -- node "$PWD/apps/mcp/dist/index.js"

Full reference: docs/PUBLIC_API.md · docs/MCP.md · docs/INTEGRATIONS.md — the line to render, the three answers to handle, and the four things not to do.

For autonomous agents

From the domain alone, with no JavaScript and no cookies:

An agent that forms a thesis can record it as an AgentResearchReceipt — neutral, for any project, checked but never stored or endorsed by HEY. HEY gives no trade instructions and runs no agents of its own.

The badge

Any project HEY tracks can embed its own status. It updates itself, and it links back to the evidence behind it.

[![My project on HEY](https://heyresearch.xyz/badge/<slug>.svg)](https://heyresearch.xyz/project/<slug>)

?theme=dark and ?style=pill are the other two looks. docs/BADGES.md on the site.

Rules that do not move