# Vendor Entity Brief

> Vendor Entity Brief is a paid API for AI agents from vendor-entity-brief.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-14).

Looks up a vendor by legal name and returns a GLEIF LEI match summary, jurisdiction details, and OFAC sanctions screening with a proceed-or-pause recommendation.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://vendor-entity-brief.vercel.app/api/vendor-entity-brief
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vendor-entity-brief-vercel-app-338b38f0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_S3GnN0BFMqkUSpaWL45Nb

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 vendor-entity-brief-vercel-app-338b38f0
```

Example prompt: Can you run a vendor entity brief on 'Sberbank CZ' in the Czech Republic — give me up to 3 GLEIF candidate matches with a minimum score of 90 and tell me whether we should proceed or pause before sending them a payment?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a compact, machine-usable onboarding artifact that combines GLEIF entity resolution and OFAC sanctions screening in a single call — ideal for procurement workflows, payout approvals, or cross-border vendor onboarding where a proceed-or-pause signal is required before transacting.

## Known failure modes

- No GLEIF matches found for the given name and country — returns empty candidate list
- minScore too high results in zero candidates passing threshold
- OFAC service unavailable — screening match count may be unreliable
- Ambiguous legal name yields many low-confidence candidates requiring manual review
- Invalid country code returns validation error

## How this service works

Short vendor entity brief for procurement, payouts, and cross-border onboarding. Query by legal name and get a machine-usable GLEIF entity match summary, LEI candidate shortlist, jurisdiction and registration details, plus OFAC restricted-party screening and a proceed-or-pause recommendation when the buyer needs a compact handoff artifact.

## Output

Returns a summary object with a status (e.g. manual-review-required), count of LEI candidates found, OFAC screening match count, a proceed-or-pause recommended action, and the best-matching entity candidate including its LEI, legal name, entity status, and jurisdiction — plus a boolean manual review flag.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "country",
  "limit",
  "minScore",
  "name"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "name": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "name query parameter"
  },
  "limit": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "limit query parameter"
  },
  "country": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "country query parameter"
  },
  "minScore": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "minScore query parameter"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "data": {
  "query": {
   "name": "SBERBANK",
   "limit": 3,
   "country": "CZ",
   "minScore": 90
  },
  "summary": {
   "status": "manual-review-required",
   "leiCandidateCount": 3,
   "recommendedAction": "pause-and-review",
   "screeningMatchCount": 1,
   "manualReviewRecommended": true
  },
  "bestEntityCandidate": {
   "lei": "31570010000000029583",
   "legalName": "Sberbank CZ, a.s. v likvidaci",
   "entityStatus": "ACTIVE",
   "jurisdiction": "CZ"
  }
 },
 "source": "GLEIF API + OFAC Sanctions List Service",
 "success": true
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/vendor-entity-brief-vercel-app-338b38f0/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from vendor-entity-brief.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/vendor-entity-brief.vercel.app/llms.txt)