# Company Screening MCP Server (`tributarydata/company-screening-mcp`) Actor

UK Companies House lookups - profile, directors, beneficial owners, charges, filings - plus US, EU and UN sanctions screening, as MCP tools for AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tributarydata/company-screening-mcp.md
- **Developed by:** [Tributary Data](https://apify.com/tributarydata) (community)
- **Categories:** MCP servers, Agents, Business
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## Pricing

from $15.00 / 1,000 tool calls

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Company Screening MCP Server

Give your AI agent the ability to verify a **UK company** against the official register and screen names against **US, EU and UN sanctions lists** — so due-diligence questions get answered from primary sources.

Every response includes a `source` and a link to the official record.

### What it answers

- *"Is this company real, and is it still active?"*
- *"Who are the directors, and who actually controls it?"*
- *"Does it have secured debts against its assets?"*
- *"Are its accounts overdue, or does it have insolvency history?"*
- *"Does this name appear on any sanctions list?"*

### Tools

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `search_uk_companies` | Find a company on the UK register by name |
| `get_uk_company` | Official entry: status, incorporation date, registered office, insolvency history, overdue filings |
| `get_uk_company_officers` | Directors and secretaries, current and resigned |
| `get_uk_beneficial_owners` | People with significant control — who actually controls the company |
| `get_uk_company_charges` | Secured debts and mortgages registered against the company |
| `get_uk_filing_history` | Filing history, newest first |
| `screen_sanctions` | Screen a name against US OFAC, EU and UN lists, including aliases |

### Built to be read correctly

Due diligence is exactly where a confidently wrong answer does damage, so this server returns the caveats with the data:

- **Sanctions results carry an explicit warning.** A match means a *similarly named* listed entity, not the same party — and no matches does not clear anyone. The screen covers three lists and matches names, not identities. That caveat is part of every response.
- **Aliases are indexed, not just primary names.** Screening only on primary names is how real matches get missed.
- **Empty beneficial-ownership results are explained.** No listed owners usually means control runs through a parent company, or the statement was not filed. It does not mean nobody controls the company, and the response says so.

### Why the data is trustworthy

Company data comes from Companies House, the UK's statutory register, via its official API. Sanctions data comes from the published US OFAC SDN, EU Financial Sanctions and UN Security Council consolidated lists, refreshed daily.

Only the month and year of an officer's birth are returned — that is all Companies House publishes.

### Pricing

$0.004 per tool call. No subscription, no minimum.

### Limits and honesty

- **UK companies only.** No coverage of other registers.
- Sanctions screening covers **US, EU and UN** lists. It is not a complete global screen and does not include PEP or adverse-media checks.
- **This is a screening aid, not a compliance determination.** Regulated firms must verify matches against the official lists and follow their own obligations.

# Actor input Schema

## Actor input object example

```json
{}
```

# Actor output Schema

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tributarydata/company-screening-mcp").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tributarydata/company-screening-mcp").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call tributarydata/company-screening-mcp --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tributarydata/company-screening-mcp"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/0NErQa12S4t8XBle6/builds/M8tqwXMQxaJqA9Jd5/openapi.json