Business Verification API

Verify public business website evidence and return an explainable score, verdict, confidence level, and evidence bundle.

What this Actor does

Business Verification API checks public website evidence for each submitted business. It visits the business website, reads public metadata and contact pages, extracts profile signals, and returns a normalized verification result.

It is designed for lead qualification, vendor checks, enrichment pipelines, CRM cleanup, and AI-agent workflows that need a compact evidence-backed business profile.

Data returned

Each result can include:

• Input business name and website
• Final website domain
• Extracted organization name
• Verification score from 0 to 100
• Verdict and confidence level
• Name-match signal
• Reachability, contact, social, structured-data, and page-depth signals
• Public evidence: title, description, emails, phones, addresses, social links, important pages, pages checked, and JSON-LD types
• Warnings and scrape timestamp

Example input

{
  "businesses": [
    { "websiteUrl": "https://www.apify.com", "name": "Apify" },
    { "websiteUrl": "https://www.mozilla.org", "name": "Mozilla" }
  ],
  "maxPagesPerSite": 5,
  "includeEvidenceText": true,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 25,
  "politeDelayMs": 500
}

Verdicts

Verdict	Meaning
strong_public_evidence	Website and public signals strongly support the business profile.
moderate_public_evidence	Useful public evidence exists, but some signals are missing.
limited_public_evidence	Website is reachable but public evidence is thin.
weak_public_evidence	Public signals are weak or incomplete.

Limitations

This Actor uses public website evidence only. It does not verify government registration, submit forms, log in, bypass CAPTCHA, scrape private accounts, or guarantee that contact details are active. Treat the output as public-evidence scoring, not legal due diligence.

Changelog

• 0.1 Added public website evidence scoring with explainable verification signals.