# US Company SEC CIK Lookup

> US Company SEC CIK Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from x402-farm.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the SEC CIK identifier, official name, and exchange listings for a US public company

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-farm.vercel.app/v1/us/company
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-company-sec-cik-lookup-5d1a2b9c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_p7VvENlkOdlZ70l84unMC

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 us-company-sec-cik-lookup-5d1a2b9c
```

Example prompt: What is Apple's SEC CIK number and which exchange is it listed on?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, pay-per-call lookup of a US public company's SEC CIK identifier or exchange listing without setting up an account or managing API keys. Ideal for AI agents that occasionally need to resolve company identifiers for SEC EDGAR research, financial data enrichment, or regulatory compliance checks. Prefer this over direct EDGAR scraping when you want a clean JSON response with no parsing overhead.

## Known failure modes

- Company not found in SEC EDGAR returns empty or error response
- Private or foreign companies not registered with SEC may return no results
- Ambiguous company names may return incorrect or unexpected matches
- Network or service unavailability returns HTTP error
- Micropayment failure via x402 protocol blocks the request

## How this service works

Pay-per-call APIs for AI agents — x402 protocol, USDC on Base, no account needed.

## Output

A JSON object containing the company's SEC CIK number (zero-padded string), official registered company name as it appears in EDGAR, and an array of stock exchanges where the company is listed (e.g. Nasdaq, NYSE).

## 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",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "exchanges": [
   "Nasdaq"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-company-sec-cik-lookup-5d1a2b9c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402-farm.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402-farm.vercel.app/llms.txt)