Onboarding businesses
Confirm a new customer's company exists and is active before you open an account.
Existence, status and, where the register publishes them, directors, from the official source.
KYB starts with one question: is this company real and still trading? This check asks the official register of the country directly and returns the name, registration number, status, registration date, address and industry. Where the register publishes officers (the UK, Norway and France), you can ask for the current directors too. Every answer names the register it came from and the time it was fetched.
Confirm a new customer's company exists and is active before you open an account.
Check who you are about to pay or sign with.
Verify sellers that register as companies.
Pair with VAT validation to check a European buyer in two calls.
Create a free account and get a test key.
Send the country and a registration number, or a name to search.
Read the status, the source and the retrieved-at time, then store what you need.
Create a free account and use a test key to see the full response without contacting any register.
Test keys are free and return realistic responses without charging you, so you can build the whole flow before you pay for a single live check.
POST /v1/verify/business-registry, authenticated with your X-IdentifyOrg-Key header.
{
"country": "GB",
"registration_number": "00445790",
"include_officers": false
}{
"id": "ver_01hxyz...",
"type": "business_registry",
"status": "success",
"country": "GB",
"company": {
"name": "EXAMPLE TRADING LIMITED",
"registration_number": "00445790",
"status": "active",
"legal_form": "ltd",
"registered_on": "1948-02-19",
"address": "1 Example Street, London, EC1A 1AA, United Kingdom",
"industry": "47110",
"officers": null
},
"matches": null,
"contains_personal_data": false,
"source": { "name": "UK Companies House", "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk" },
"retrieved_at": "2026-10-18T10:24:00Z",
"cost": 40.0,
"currency": "NGN",
"is_test": false
}When the test convinces you, the developer section shows exactly how to connect it: the endpoint, the request and response, SDKs for your language and webhooks.
The United Kingdom, the United States (companies that file with the SEC only, because there is no free national register of US companies), Norway, Czechia and France. More are added only where a free official register exists and has been tested. Nigeria's CAC check is a separate service.
No. It covers SEC registrants: listed companies and other companies that file with the SEC. Private US companies are registered by each state and are not covered.
Only if you ask, and only where the register publishes them: the UK, Norway and France. Directors are personal data, so request them only when you have a reason.
You get a clear 502 and you are not charged.
US$1.00 per completed check, converted to your currency on the pricing page. You are not charged if the register cannot answer. Test keys are free.