# NYC Small Business Services Certified Business Search

> NYC Small Business Services Certified Business Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.companyrecords-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-24).

Searches the NYC Small Business Services certified vendor list by name and returns certification type, NAICS industry code, address, website, and renewal date.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.companyrecords-api.workers.dev/api/b2b/nyc-certified-business?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-24
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/nyc-small-business-services-certified-business-search-3f723752
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_jJoP_gCf0VqxmTbKWsqsw

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 nyc-small-business-services-certified-business-search-3f723752
```

Example prompt: Can you look up whether a company called 'Architecture Design Studio' is certified by NYC Small Business Services, and tell me what kind of certification they have and when it expires?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to verify or discover NYC-specific Small Business Services certifications (MBE, WBE, etc.) for vendor due diligence, supplier diversity compliance, or NYC government procurement research. It draws directly from the official NYC Open Data portal, making it authoritative for NYC certifications. Prefer this over generic business lookup APIs when the NYC SBS certification status, NAICS code, or renewal date is specifically needed.

## Known failure modes

- No results found if the vendor name does not match any certified business in the NYC SBS registry
- Query string too short (under 2 chars) or too long (over 60 chars) returns a validation error
- Invalid characters in query (non-alphanumeric except . , & -) may cause rejection
- Limit parameter out of range (outside 1–25) may return an error or be clamped
- Stale data if NYC Open Data source has not been refreshed recently (checkedAt timestamp indicates last check)
- Payment failure if x402 USDC micropayment is not completed

## How this service works

Pay-per-call company registry, government, legal and B2B data tools for AI agents, from official registers and public sources. Payment: x402, USDC on Base, Solana, Arc, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad, World Chain, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo or Stellar, or RLUSD/XRP on the XRP Ledger. No signup, no API key; a failed call is not charged.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a count of matches, the original query, the source data URL, a checkedAt timestamp, and an array of matching businesses. Each business includes formal name, trade name, address, website, NAICS code, NAICS industry title, account number, certification type(s) (e.g. MBE, WBE), and certification renewal date.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Vendor name part, letters, digits, spaces and . , & - only, 2 to 60 characters"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Rows to return, 1 to 25 (default 10)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 5,
  "query": "architecture",
  "source": "https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/ci93-uc8s.json",
  "results": [
   {
    "address": "616 E9th Street, New York, NY, 10009",
    "website": null,
    "naicsCode": "541310",
    "tradeName": null,
    "formalName": "000 Architecture PLLC",
    "naicsTitle": "Architectural Services",
    "accountNumber": "377031",
    "certification": "MBE",
    "certificationRenewalDate": "3/31/2030"
   },
   {
    "address": "645 East 26th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11210",
    "website": "http://www.40sixfourarchitects.com",
    "naicsCode": "541310",
    "tradeName": null,
    "formalName": "40 Six Four Architecture Design Studio, PLLC",
    "naicsTitle": "Architectural Services",
    "accountNumber": "327497",
    "certification": "MBE,WBE",
    "certificationRenewalDate": "12/31/2027"
   }
  ],
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:37:36.564Z"
 }
}
```

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