# PayAI Sanctions Screening – Entity Name Check

> PayAI Sanctions Screening – Entity Name Check is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Fuzzy-screens a person or organization name against major public sanctions lists (OFAC SDN, UK, EU, UN) including aliases, returning scored matches with list, program, country, type, and reference.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://payai.agentstools.dev/screen/entity?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/payai-sanctions-screening-entity-name-check-e0b23a7d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_F3NMCqrJhMJ0ZY3B9E8lI

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 payai-sanctions-screening-entity-name-check-e0b23a7d
```

Example prompt: Before we process this wire transfer, can you screen 'Rosneft Oil Company' as an entity against all major sanctions lists — OFAC, UK, EU, and UN — and return any scored matches above 80?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time, fuzzy-matched compliance screening of a name against multiple official government sanctions lists (OFAC SDN, UK, EU, UN) in a single call, especially when spelling variations or aliases may be present. Prefer this over manual list lookups or single-list checks when multi-jurisdictional coverage and scored fuzzy matching are both required.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'name' query parameter returns 400 error
- min_score below 50 or above 100 rejected with validation error
- limit above 50 rejected with validation error
- No matches found returns empty results array (not an error)
- Network or upstream sanctions database unavailability returns 5xx

## How this service works

Fuzzy-screen a person or organization name against the official public sanctions lists (OFAC SDN, UK, EU, UN), including aliases. Returns scored matches with list, program, country, type, and reference.

## Output

A list of scored fuzzy matches, each with the sanctions list name (e.g. OFAC SDN), program, country, entity type (individual/entity/vessel), reference ID, and any matched aliases. Returns up to the requested limit of matches meeting the minimum score threshold.

## 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 organization name to screen"
      },
      "type": {
       "enum": [
        "individual",
        "entity",
        "vessel"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional filter by designation type"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 50,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Maximum matches to return (default 10)"
      },
      "min_score": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 100,
       "minimum": 50,
       "description": "Minimum fuzzy match score (default 85)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "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/payai-sanctions-screening-entity-name-check-e0b23a7d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from payai.agentstools.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/payai.agentstools.dev/llms.txt)