# The Artillerist Vendor Risk Brief

> The Artillerist Vendor Risk Brief is a paid API for AI agents from theartillerist.com, paid per call via x402, $0.025/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Runs a citation-first vendor preflight check screening a vendor against OFAC sanctions lists, GLEIF, SEC EDGAR, and RDAP domain data to surface risk signals and identity gaps

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://theartillerist.com/api/v1/intelligence/vendor-risk
- Price: $0.025/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/the-artillerist-vendor-risk-brief-fd930c18
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rA7TbQlMWd-R7znmhrFQB

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 the-artillerist-vendor-risk-brief-fd930c18 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Before we onboard Apex Global Trading Ltd as a vendor, can you run a vendor risk brief on them — screen the name and any known aliases against OFAC, pull their GLEIF and SEC EDGAR records, and flag any domain age issues or identity gaps?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a citation-first, multi-source vendor preflight that combines OFAC sanctions screening (primary names and aliases), GLEIF legal entity records, SEC EDGAR filings, and RDAP domain intelligence in a single call. Prefer it over generic OFAC-only checkers when identity gaps, domain age signals, and data freshness transparency matter. Best suited for pre-onboarding due diligence, procurement workflows, and agentic compliance pipelines where sourced evidence — not just a pass/fail flag — is required. Not a substitute for a formal compliance determination.

## Known failure modes

- Vendor name not found in any authoritative source — report returns no matches with source gaps noted
- OFAC screening returns false positives for common or generic company names requiring manual disambiguation
- GLEIF or SEC EDGAR records unavailable for non-public or non-registered entities
- RDAP data missing or incomplete for certain domain registrars that do not publish full WHOIS data
- Input company name ambiguity leads to multiple partial matches without a clear identity resolution
- API returns stale data if authoritative source feeds have not been recently refreshed
- Payment failure via x402 protocol prevents request from being processed

## How this service works

Screen a vendor for OFAC sanctions and complete vendor due diligence and company verification. This citation-first Vendor Risk Brief checks exact normalized names against current U.S. Treasury OFAC SDN and Consolidated primary-name and alias files, then adds GLEIF legal-entity records, SEC EDGAR company filings, and authoritative RDAP domain-registration evidence. It returns match status, vendor risk signals, identity gaps, domain-age signals, source URLs, evidence timestamps, confidence, and limitations for vendor onboarding, supplier risk, procurement, AML, and counterparty preflight. A name match requires human review; a no-match result is not sanctions clearance or a compliance determination.

## Output

A structured vendor risk brief containing: normalized OFAC primary-name and alias screening results (matches or non-matches), GLEIF legal entity identity data, SEC EDGAR filing presence, RDAP domain age and registration signals, identified identity gaps, data freshness indicators for each source, and explicit limitations noting this is not a compliance determination.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/the-artillerist-vendor-risk-brief-fd930c18/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from theartillerist.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/theartillerist.com/llms.txt)