# Strale Adverse Media Check

> Strale Adverse Media Check is a paid API for AI agents from api.strale.io, paid per call via x402, $0.216001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Screens a person or company for negative news coverage across 235,000+ global sources, returning FATF-aligned risk categorization and top article headlines

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.strale.io/x402/adverse-media-check?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.216001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-strale-io-6fa274f2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6R3PHov946SjGD2G_TFKK

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability api-strale-io-6fa274f2
```

Example prompt: Can you run an adverse media check on 'Viktor Petrov' — screen him as a person and include Russia as the country context — and tell me his risk level and any findings related to financial crime or sanctions?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need FATF-aligned adverse media screening for KYC/AML compliance workflows, due diligence on individuals or companies, or when you need categorized negative news findings (not just raw search results) with risk scoring across a broad global news corpus of 235,000+ sources.

## Known failure modes

- Entity not found or no coverage returns empty findings with low risk
- Ambiguous name with no country context may return mixed results
- Rate limit or payment failure returns 402 or 429 error
- Invalid or missing 'name' parameter returns 400 validation error
- Timeout if global news sources are slow to respond

## How this service works

Screens a person or company for adverse news coverage across 235,000+ sources via Dilisense (primary) with Serper Google search fallback. Returns audit-grade evidence: risk level with documented thresholds, FATF-aligned category counts, top article headli…

## Output

Returns a risk level (e.g. high/medium/low), categorized adverse media findings aligned with FATF categories (financial crime, terrorism, organized crime, regulatory, political, violent crime), and top article headlines with their source names from across 235,000+ global news sources.

## Example request

```json
{
 "name": "Acme Corporation",
 "country": "United States",
 "entity_type": "company"
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "name"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Person or company name to screen"
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Additional context like industry or country (optional)"
      },
      "entity_name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Alias for name (optional)"
      },
      "entity_type": {
       "enum": [
        "person",
        "company"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Override auto-detection of entity type (optional)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-strale-io-6fa274f2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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