# Pennsylvania Business Name Search (Relic Forge API)

> Pennsylvania Business Name Search (Relic Forge API) is a paid API for AI agents from relic-forge-api.bakongi.chatgpt.site, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Searches the Pennsylvania Department of State public business-registration dataset by vendor/business name prefix to screen whether a name appears in state records.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://relic-forge-api.bakongi.chatgpt.site/api/pa-business-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/pennsylvania-business-name-search-relic-forge-api-9a51ef10
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_wWZR6m8r1EDY9DJN2PthW

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 pennsylvania-business-name-search-relic-forge-api-9a51ef10
```

Example prompt: Can you check whether 'Keystone Supply Partners LLC' shows up in the Pennsylvania Department of State's public business registration records?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, low-cost preliminary screen of a Pennsylvania business name against the state's public registration dataset — ideal for vendor due diligence, name availability checks, or compliance screening workflows. It is not a substitute for an official real-time search on the Commonwealth's official business portal, but it is a fast and cheap first pass. Prefer this over manual lookups on data.pa.gov when automating vendor onboarding or procurement validation pipelines.

## Known failure modes

- No matching records found (lookup_status: no_row_returned) — does not confirm the business is unregistered, only absent from this periodic snapshot
- Dataset may be out of date as it is periodically refreshed, not real-time
- Name prefix matching may return too many or too few results if the name is very common or very short
- Payment failure (x402 protocol) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Malformed or empty business name input may yield no results or an error

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the data source name and URL (data.pa.gov PA business registration dataset), an array of matching business records, the number of records returned, the timestamp the check was performed, the match mode used (e.g. 'prefix'), a lookup status (e.g. 'no_row_returned'), and an interpretation note cautioning that absence from this periodic dataset is not proof of non-registration.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "source": "Pennsylvania Department of State public business-registration dataset",
  "records": [],
  "returned": 0,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "match_mode": "prefix",
  "source_url": "https://data.pa.gov/Licenses-Certificates/Filtered-View-Distinct-Registered-Businesses-in-PA/3urc-uaba",
  "lookup_status": "no_row_returned",
  "interpretation": "No candidate row in this periodic dataset is not proof of non-registration; verify current legal status in the Commonwealth's official search."
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/pennsylvania-business-name-search-relic-forge-api-9a51ef10/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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