# Company Registry Lookup API

> Company Registry Lookup API is a paid API for AI agents from companyfacts.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-31).

Looks up registered company details (legal name, address, status, activity code, incorporation date) by company name and country from official business registries.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://companyfacts.dev/x402/v1/company-registry?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-31
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/company-registry-lookup-api-ab0dde47
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_25oJAUzrBywG8HjMnMZOe

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 company-registry-lookup-api-ab0dde47
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the official company registration details for Equinox Energy in Norway — I need their legal name, company number, status, and incorporation date from the national business registry?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, first-party company registration data directly from official national business registries (not scraped or aggregated third-party sources). It is especially valuable for due diligence, supplier verification, legal entity resolution, or confirming a company's active status, legal form, and official name in a specific country. Prefer it over generic business search APIs when accuracy and official source attribution matter.

## Known failure modes

- Company not found in the specified country's registry — returns empty results array
- Ambiguous company name matches multiple records — returns multiple results requiring disambiguation
- Country not supported by the registry network — may return error or empty results
- Missing required parameters (name or country) — request rejected with validation error
- Rate limiting or payment failure for $0.003 USDC per call — returns 402 or payment error

## How this service works

Open job postings read first-hand from the applicant-tracking system behind a company's careers page: Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever or Workable. Includes a directory of 8532 company job boards, because none of the vendors publishes one. Salaries are parsed into numbers where the employer publishes them and refused where ambiguous. No personal data.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with count, query echo, country, licence, and a results array. Each result includes: legal name, company number, legal form (e.g. ASA), status (active/dissolved), registered address (city, postcode, country), activity code and description, incorporation date, dissolved date, previous names, LEI, source registry name, verification URL, and attribution text for the data source.

## 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",
      "country"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "state": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 1,
  "query": "Equinor",
  "country": "NO",
  "licence": "NLOD 2.0",
  "results": [
   {
    "lei": null,
    "source": "brreg",
    "status": "active",
    "legal_form": "ASA",
    "legal_name": "EQUINOR ASA",
    "verify_url": "https://virksomhet.brreg.no/nb/oppslag/enheter/923609016",
    "address_city": "STAVANGER",
    "jurisdiction": null,
    "last_updated": null,
    "activity_code": "06.100",
    "activity_text": "Utvinning av råolje",
    "company_number": "923609016",
    "dissolved_date": null,
    "employees_band": null,
    "previous_names": [
     "STATOIL ASA"
    ],
    "source_country": "NO",
    "address_country": "NO",
    "register_number": null,
    "address_postcode": "4035",
    "incorporated_date": "1972-09-18"
   }
  ],
  "register": "Bronnoysund Register Centre (Enhetsregisteret)",
  "attribution": "Contains data from Bronnoysund Register Centre, licensed under NLOD 2.0."
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/company-registry-lookup-api-ab0dde47/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from companyfacts.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/companyfacts.dev/llms.txt)