# Eckari UK Company Legal Status

> Eckari UK Company Legal Status is a paid API for AI agents from api.eckari.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-09).

Returns the current legal status of a UK company from the Companies House register, including active/dissolved/liquidation states and derived flags for liveness and strike-off proposals.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.eckari.com/v1/companies/uk/:company_number/status?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-09
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eckari-uk-company-legal-status-93269659
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_X_b1j1HKuYCV3lT2oPL2g

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 eckari-uk-company-legal-status-93269659
```

Example prompt: Can you check the legal status of UK company number 00445790 on Companies House — I need to know if it's still active, dissolved, or in any kind of insolvency proceedings?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a single, authoritative answer about a UK company's legal status from the Companies House register with minimal latency and cost. It is purpose-built for agent workflows that need a yes/no liveness check or insolvency flag rather than the full company profile. Prefer it over web scraping or third-party aggregators when regulatory accuracy and freshness matter, and when you only need status (not full filings, accounts, or officer data).

## Known failure modes

- Invalid company number format (non-alphanumeric, >8 chars, internal spaces) returns INVALID_INPUT before any charge
- Company number not found on register returns a not-found error
- Companies House upstream unavailability may cause timeout or 5xx response
- Whitespace-only company number rejected without payment
- Transient network errors may require retry

## How this service works

Return the current legal status of a UK company from the Companies House register — active, dissolved, liquidation, administration, receivership, voluntary-arrangement and others — with status detail, cessation date, a derived is_active (true for the live-on-the-register statuses active, open and registered) and a derived is_striking_off for an active company with a proposal to strike off. One call, one authoritative register answer. Use when: Is this UK company still active?

## Output

Returns the company's current legal status string (e.g. active, dissolved, liquidation, administration, receivership, voluntary-arrangement), a status detail field, a cessation date (if applicable), a boolean is_active (true for active/open/registered statuses) and a boolean is_striking_off (true if active but with a strike-off proposal). All data is sourced authoritatively from the UK Companies House register.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "company_number"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "company_number": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^\\s*(?:[0-9]{1,8}|[A-Za-z][0-9]{7}|[A-Za-z]{2}[0-9]{6}|[A-Za-z]{2}[0-9]{5}[A-Za-z]|[A-Za-z]{2}[0-9]{4}[A-Za-z]{2})\\s*$",
       "maxLength": 10,
       "minLength": 1,
       "description": "Companies House company number, also called the company registration number (CRN), e.g. 00445790, SC123456, NI000001, BR008975. Accepted shapes are the register's own — 1-8 digits (zero-padded to 8, e.g. 445790 → 00445790), one letter + 7 digits (R0000001), two letters + 6 digits (SC002180, NI000001, OC123456, OE000001), or the registered-society suffix forms (two letters + 5 digits + 1 letter; two letters + 4 digits + 2 letters). Case-insensitive; surrounding whitespace is ignored (which is why maxLength is 10); internal spaces and punctuation are not accepted. Any other value (for example PROBE) is rejected as INVALID_INPUT before payment and before any upstream call."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/eckari-uk-company-legal-status-93269659/health.json
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