AI Agent Stack for Los Angeles Media, Tech, and Startups

A Los Angeles company often already pays a model lab. The research feed, the agent that holds the brief, and the machine that runs the script are still separate invoices. SandBase folds those into a single account:

• More than 2,000 models and data APIs, from 100+ platforms, drawn against one balance
• Hosted Agents and Sessions in the OpenAI Agents shape and in OpenAgentCore
• A sandbox that speaks E2B when the job must open a file or run a command
• SKILL.md so a coding assistant can read the catalog

Opening an Agent or a sandbox does not require a charge. Eligible data APIs share a pool of 100 free calls each day for the organization. The pool resets at 00:00 UTC. Model calls are priced on their own listing.

The base URL is https://api.sandbase.ai/v1. Authenticate with Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY.

These public pages describe the city. They are not a SandBase office.

• Startup Genome’s Los Angeles profile says the startup ecosystem thrives at the intersection of entertainment, technology, and creativity, with founders and investors redefining industries from gaming to life sciences and cleantech. In the GSER 2026 Top 40, Los Angeles is tied for #6. That report also says global startup ecosystem value grew by $2.8 trillion from GSER 2025 to 2026, with Los Angeles adding another $650 billion.
• UCLA Computer Science describes artificial intelligence as the computational study of intelligent behavior, including machine learning, causality, and natural language processing. Its graphics research covers rendering, motion capture, and modeling for the movie and game industries.
• USC’s AI for Media & Storytelling is a collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. It experiments with, studies, teaches, and debates artificial intelligence for media and storytelling.

SandBase is the API under that mix of screens and software: one key, rather than a new vendor for every model or dataset.

1. Create the organization key in the Console.
2. Create an Agent through the OpenAI SDK or POST /v1/agents, with a model, instructions, and tools.
3. When projection_status reads ready, open a Session and send the task.
4. Put scripts and media files in the sandbox at https://sandbox.sandbase.ai with the E2B SDK.
5. Or hand the assistant SKILL.md and let it look up the catalog.

Longer paths: Docs · Agents API · Sandbox quickstart

The OpenAI Python SDK pattern from the SandBase docs, with instructions for Los Angeles media and startup readers.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["SANDBASE_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://api.sandbase.ai/v1",
)

agent = client.beta.agents.create(
    model="deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash",
    name="Los Angeles format brief",
    instructions=(
        "Write for a Los Angeles media and startup audience. "
        "Compare more than one source and cite each."
    ),
    metadata={"city": "los-angeles", "team": "media"},
)

print(agent.id, agent.version)  # agt_..., 1
# Open a Session only after projection_status is ready.

curl -X POST https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/agents/sessions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"agent_id": "agt_..."}'

Keep scripts and files in a sandbox. Start with the Sandbox quickstart.

If you searched for an AI agent API Los Angeles teams can adopt while keeping the OpenAI Agents SDK, SandBase is that API.

Use these public pages. Do not add a SandBase office, a phone number, or a latency figure for Los Angeles:

• Startup Genome — Los Angeles ecosystem
• GSER 2026
• UCLA Computer Science — research areas
• USC AI for Media & Storytelling

The tied #6 rank and the ecosystem-value figures are Startup Genome’s for GSER 2026. UCLA is the source for the movie-and-game graphics line. USC AIMS is the source for the cinematic-arts and Annenberg collaboration. SandBase does not publish a Los Angeles phone number, a street address, or a city-specific latency SLA on this page.