District of Columbia Company Check — KYB & due diligence MCP

District of Columbia Company Check

Check any District of Columbia legal entity by its DC DLCP file number in one call and get a clean English JSON answer with red flags, source attribution and a date on every field. Built for AI agents (MCP) and for KYB / AML onboarding, counterparty and supplier due diligence, vendor risk and compliance checks.

• One number → one answer from official open registers plus GLEIF Global LEI Index: Level 1 (LEI-CDF), Level 2 (RR-CDF), Reporting Exceptions and Official sanctions lists: US OFAC (SDN and Consolidated non-SDN), EU consolidated financial sanctions (FSF), UK Sanctions List (FCDO) — legal entities only.
• One schema for every country: the same fields and flags whether you check one District of Columbia company or a thousand — your agent parses one format.
• Agent-ready: an MCP server (Streamable HTTP, /mcp) with check_company, check_companies and list_sources, a plain GET /check?country=&id= endpoint, and classic batch runs (list of numbers → dataset).
• Change history: registers publish only the current state; we keep our own snapshots, so every answer shows what was added or removed since history_since (e.g. a status change or a new sanctions listing).
• Pay per check (one charge per company answered; the price is on the Pricing tab), no subscription. Malformed numbers, sole traders and individuals are not charged. In Standby (MCP / HTTP) mode Apify also bills the small platform usage of the server run, as for every Standby Actor. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify to cap spending: when it is reached, the Actor returns an error instead of data.

What we check

Source	Licence	Publisher updates
District of Columbia Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP), Corporations Division — Corporate Registration, Open Data DC (opendata.dc.gov) (US-DC)	Several, see Data licences	daily
GLEIF Global LEI Index: Level 1 (LEI-CDF), Level 2 (RR-CDF), Reporting Exceptions	CC0 1.0	daily
Official sanctions lists: US OFAC (SDN and Consolidated non-SDN), EU consolidated financial sanctions (FSF), UK Sanctions List (FCDO) — legal entities only	Several, see Data licences	daily

Data refreshed at least weekly; every field carries its source date (provenance), and every answer lists each source with the date it was loaded (sources[].loaded_at; list_sources is free).

flags — true is a red flag: not_found (the number is not in the register dump), not_active, insolvency, liquidation, sanctions (match by registration number or LEI), sanctions_name_match (same name, same country: verify manually). false means there is no record in the loaded snapshot — it is not a clean bill of health. null means unknown. Call list_sources (free) for load times.

District of Columbia: Business entities on file with the DC Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (domestic and foreign corporations, nonprofits, LLCs, limited and limited liability partnerships, cooperatives, statutory trusts), including revoked, dissolved, withdrawn and merged ones. File numbers have no check digit, so a number with no record is reported as unknown and not charged. Trade names and sole proprietorships are not in the register. A valid DC DLCP file number without a record therefore returns not_found: null (unknown, not fictitious) and is not charged.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of the District of Columbia or DLCP. Contains data from the DLCP Corporate Registration dataset, Open Data DC (https://opendata.dc.gov), licensed under CC BY 4.0; modified (selected fields only, statuses mapped, personal data masked in names). Status: "Active - In Good Standing" → active; "Active - Not in Good Standing" → inactive (flag not_in_good_standing); "Revoked" means administrative dissolution for a DC entity (dissolved, flag liquidation; it may be reinstated) and revocation of the registration for a foreign entity (inactive, the entity itself may still exist in its home jurisdiction); "Inactive - Cancelled" → dissolved for DC entities and inactive for foreign registrations; Withdrawn, Converted and Domesticated → inactive; Terminated → dissolved for DC entities and inactive for foreign registrations; Dissolved, Merged and Consolidated → dissolved. flags.registration_revoked is true when the register status is "Revoked" (a DC entity administratively dissolved, or a foreign entity whose DC registration was terminated), false for any other known status, and null when the status is unknown or conflicting. flags.insolvency is always null: the register does not record bankruptcy. Registered agents and street addresses are not returned.

Identifiers

Country	Identifier	Format	Example
District of Columbia (US-DC)	DC DLCP file number	letters and digits, e.g. L00007017355, 741703 or US-DC-LL012601487	L00006250577

Spaces, dashes and a country prefix are accepted. Legal entities only: sole traders and other natural persons are not supported, not stored and not charged. No data about people (officers, owners, contacts) is ever returned; addresses are city level only.

Input

{
  "country": "US-DC",
  "ids": [
    "L00006250577"
  ]
}

Up to 10,000 numbers per run.

Output (one dataset item per company, shortened)

{
  "country": "US-DC",
  "id": "L00006250577",
  "id_scheme": "US-DC-DLCP",
  "name": "…",
  "status": "active",
  "legal_form": {
    "code": "…",
    "name": "…",
    "name_en": "…"
  },
  "address": {
    "city": "…",
    "country": "US"
  },
  "flags": {
    "not_found": false,
    "not_active": false,
    "insolvency": null,
    "liquidation": false,
    "sanctions": false,
    "sanctions_name_match": false
  },
  "provenance": {
    "status": {
      "source": "register",
      "as_of": "2026-11-05T03:00:00+00:00"
    }
  },
  "history": [],
  "history_since": "2026-11-05",
  "sources": [
    {
      "key": "register",
      "title": "…",
      "license": "…",
      "loaded_at": "…"
    }
  ],
  "disclaimer": "… Not legal advice."
}

Use from an AI agent (MCP)

Add the Actor as a remote MCP server: https://kyb-data--district-of-columbia-company-check.apify.actor/mcp with your Apify token, or through mcp.apify.com. Tools: check_company(company_id, country), check_companies(company_ids, country) (up to 50), list_sources().

Data licences

All data comes from official open sources under open licences; attribution (title, dataset URL, licence, loaded_at) is included in the sources field of every answer.

• District of Columbia Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP), Corporations Division — Corporate Registration, Open Data DC (opendata.dc.gov): Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ — dataset licence on Open Data DC. Source: Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection; data retrieved from Open Data DC catalog (https://opendata.dc.gov). The District makes no warranties about the data. (licence text: opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::corporate-registration); publisher's terms: https://dc.gov/page/terms-and-conditions-use-district-data; modified: only selected fields; no registered agents, no street addresses; personal data masked in names; statuses mapped to a common scale; dates converted to ISO 8601
• GLEIF Global LEI Index: Level 1 (LEI-CDF), Level 2 (RR-CDF), Reporting Exceptions: CC0 1.0 (GLEIF LEI Data Terms of Use, II.3: "The data available through the Access Service are provided under the CC0 licence"; read 2026-11-05)
• Official sanctions lists: US OFAC (SDN and Consolidated non-SDN), EU consolidated financial sanctions (FSF), UK Sanctions List (FCDO) — legal entities only: OFAC: US government work, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105); EU FSF: © European Union, reuse authorised with acknowledgement (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU, CC BY 4.0); UK: contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (FCDO) (licence text: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3)

Disclaimer

Data from official open registers and official sanctions lists, as attributed in sources, as of the load date shown. Registers can be incomplete or late. Not legal advice — verify important decisions with the original register.