# ForgeMesh Federal Recipient Lookup

> ForgeMesh Federal Recipient Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Looks up companies in US federal spending records, returning recipient entities with UEI identifiers, corporate hierarchy, and total recent federal award amounts.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/federal-recipient-lookup?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-federal-recipient-lookup-bf43e98a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_k6ssvY7qItFbPGP9efQQS

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 forgemesh-federal-recipient-lookup-bf43e98a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the US federal spending database for 'Raytheon' and return up to 5 matching recipient entities, including their UEI codes and total recent federal award amounts.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to resolve a company name to its official federal identifier (UEI), verify federal contractor status, retrieve government award totals for vendor due diligence or market sizing, or navigate parent/child corporate structures within federal procurement records. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured, authoritative data directly from the official USAspending.gov dataset.

## Known failure modes

- Company name under 3 characters returns a validation error
- No matching recipients found returns an empty array with matched=0
- Limit exceeds 20 returns an error
- Ambiguous company names may return many loosely-matched results requiring manual filtering
- Network or upstream USAspending.gov API unavailability causes request failure
- Payment failure (402) if USDC balance insufficient

## How this service works

Look up any company in official US federal spending records: returns matching recipient entities with unique entity identifiers (UEI), corporate parent/child structure, and recent total federal award dollars per entity. Structured JSON for vendor vetting and market-sizing agents.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the original query, total number of matched recipients in the database, number returned, and an array of recipient objects — each containing the company name, UEI, recipient ID, recipient level (parent/child/independent), a direct USAspending.gov profile URL, and total recent federal award dollars. Includes data attribution to USAspending.gov.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 20,
   "minimum": 1
  },
  "company": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "company name, min 3 chars (required)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "query": {
   "company": "Lockheed"
  },
  "matched": 287,
  "returned": 3,
  "recipients": [
   {
    "uei": "ZFN2JJXBLZT3",
    "name": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION",
    "profile_url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/b97d19b0-833c-8d8f-3a2c-157d04ea55ef-P/latest",
    "recipient_id": "b97d19b0-833c-8d8f-3a2c-157d04ea55ef-P",
    "recipient_level": "P",
    "total_recent_amount_usd": 40100000000
   }
  ],
  "attribution": "USAspending.gov (public domain)"
 }
}
```

## More

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