AI Company & Person Verification API — Cited Profiles

Give it a company or person's name and get back a researched profile: a summary, key facts, red flags, a confidence rating, and — critically — the real source URLs behind every claim. This isn't a lookup against stale training data; it runs live Google Search grounding through Gemini for every request, so it reflects what's actually findable right now.

Tutorial: how to run it

1. Click Try for free (or Start) on this page.
2. Fill in entityName — or leave the prefilled OpenAI example to see it work immediately.
3. Optionally add context if the name is common and needs disambiguating.
4. Click Start and open the Output tab once the run finishes.
5. Read verdict, confidence, and redFlags for the headline result, and sources for the cited pages behind it.

Common questions, answered directly

How do I verify if a company is legitimate?

Pass the company name (and its website, if the name is common) and get back a sourced profile with red flags and a confidence rating — grounded in a live search, not stale training data.

Is there an API to check if a person or company is real before I do business with them?

Yes — that's exactly what this is: a due-diligence API you can call from your own onboarding, sales, or vendor-vetting flow.

How do I do quick due diligence on a vendor or business partner?

Give it the entity name and optional disambiguating context; it returns key facts, red flags, and cited sources in one call, fast enough for a first-pass screen before a deeper manual review.

What you can use this for

• Due diligence / KYB — a fast first-pass check on a vendor, partner, or investment target before a deeper manual review.
• Lead qualification — verify a company is real, active, and not flagged for anything concerning before your sales team spends time on it.
• Fraud/scam screening — surface red flags (legal issues, sanctions mentions, fraud reports) that a plain company-database lookup wouldn't catch.
• Journalism/research — a sourced starting point for background on a company or public figure.

Input

Field	Description	Default
entityName	Company or person to research	OpenAI
context	Extra detail to disambiguate a common name (optional)	—
model	Gemini model to use	gemini-3.8-flash
apiKey	Your own Gemini API key (optional — leave blank to use the Actor's key)	—

Every field has a working default — hit Start with no changes and you'll get a result.

Output

{
  "entityName": "OpenAI",
  "type": "company",
  "summary": "...",
  "officialWebsite": "https://openai.com",
  "foundedOrBorn": "December 2015",
  "keyFacts": ["...", "..."],
  "redFlags": [],
  "confidence": "high",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "sources": [{ "url": "https://...", "title": "..." }],
  "searchQueries": ["..."],
  "model": "gemini-3.8-flash",
  "verifiedAt": "2026-09-04T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.15 per entity verified. No subscription, no minimum — you only pay for profiles actually returned.

Actor recommendations

• 💼 Job Scam Checker — same cited-verification approach, applied to job postings and recruiter messages.
• 🛒 Online Store Scam Checker — adds a real domain-age lookup for verifying e-commerce storefronts.
• 🔎 Grounded Research API — the general-purpose version of this Actor's pipeline, for any cited fact lookup with a schema you define.