In today's global economy, building trusted B2B relationships is paramount. But before you can onboard a new partner, vendor, or customer, you face a critical hurdle: compliance. Know Your Business (KYB) and due diligence processes are essential for mitigating risk, but they have traditionally been slow, manual, and resource-intensive.
Compliance teams spend countless hours sifting through corporate registries, verifying business details, and checking sanction lists. This manual approach is not only costly but also prone to human error and struggles to keep pace with the speed of modern business.
What if you could automate this entire process? What if you could verify a business, retrieve its D-U-N-S number, and gather the data needed for sanction screening with a single, simple API call? With API-driven compliance, this isn't just a possibility—it's the new standard for efficient, scalable, and accurate B2B operations.
Traditional KYB and compliance checks create significant operational friction. The core challenges include:
These challenges don't just slow you down; they expose your business to financial, regulatory, and reputational risks.
An API (Application Programming Interface) acts as a secure bridge between software applications, allowing them to exchange data automatically. A business intelligence API like businesses.do revolutionizes compliance by connecting your internal systems directly to a global network of real-time, authoritative commercial data sources.
Instead of a compliance officer manually searching for a company's details, your application can make a single API request. In seconds, you receive a structured, comprehensive profile of that business.
At businesses.do, our AI-powered agent queries multiple sources, including the Dun & Bradstreet global database, to deliver verifiable data on demand.
Here’s a glimpse of the rich, real-time data you can retrieve instantly:
{
"status": "success",
"company": {
"name": "Example Corp",
"dunsNumber": "123-456-7890",
"legalStatus": "Active",
"address": {
"street": "123 Innovation Drive",
"city": "Palo Alto",
"state": "CA",
"zipCode": "94304",
"country": "USA"
},
"industry": {
"naicsCode": "511210",
"description": "Software Publishers"
},
"employeeCount": 500,
"annualRevenue": {
"value": 150000000,
"currency": "USD"
},
"yearFounded": 2010
}
}
This single response provides immediate confirmation of a company's existence (legalStatus: "Active"), identity, and operational scale, forming the bedrock of any automated compliance workflow.
Integrating an API into your compliance process transforms it from a manual chore into a streamlined, automated workflow. Here’s how it works.
The foundational step of any KYB process is confirming that a business entity is legitimate and active. Instead of searching a government corporate registry, you can use the businesses.do API to perform an instant business verification. A successful API response confirms the company's legal name, address, and operational status, providing a verifiable audit trail.
The Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S Number is a unique nine-digit identifier used worldwide to establish a business's credibility. It's often a prerequisite for securing loans, government contracts, and high-value partnerships. Our API eliminates the friction of a manual D-U-N-S lookup. By fetching this number automatically, you can standardize your data and quickly assess the credibility of any business in the world.
Effective sanction screening requires accurate data on the entity, its key principals, and its location. The businesses.do API automates the most difficult part of this process: collecting the verified company data. By programmatically retrieving the legal name, address, and details on corporate structure or key personnel, you can feed this reliable information directly into your screening engine to check against global watchlists (like OFAC, UN, and EU lists). This automation reduces false positives and ensures you are screening against accurate entity data.
Compliance isn't a one-time event. A business's status, ownership, or risk profile can change. An API-driven approach enables you to schedule periodic, automated checks on your entire portfolio of customers and partners. This proactive monitoring ensures you remain compliant and can identify potential risks as they emerge, not months later.
By replacing manual processes with a powerful business intelligence API, you unlock immense value for your organization:
The era of manual compliance is over. To stay competitive and secure, businesses must embrace automation. The businesses.do API provides the simple, powerful, and reliable data infrastructure needed to build world-class compliance workflows.
With a simple REST API, you can integrate global business intelligence directly into your platform, CRM, or internal tools. Automate due diligence, enrich your data, and empower your business with verifiable information on demand.
Ready to transform your compliance process? Visit businesses.do to explore our API and start building today.