# Check a company before you sign. Registry, history and press, in one report Company due diligence checks that a business is who it says it is, still active, and free of obvious red flags. With Agentik, your AI confirms its legal identity with GLEIF, reads its official entry in the French Sirene registry, checks how long its website has existed with the Wayback Machine, and searches the news and the web for lawsuits or liquidation with Serper. - For: Finance, procurement and investment teams - Providers: 4 (GLEIF, Recherche d’entreprises, Internet Archive and Serper), 7 tools - Example (One French company with an LEI, its registry entry, 2 website snapshots, 3 news searches and 2 web searches): at most $0.05, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-10-07 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **GLEIF** (1 tool, free): Its Legal Entity Identifier record: legal name, address and registration status. - **Recherche d’entreprises** (1 tool, free): Its official French registry entry: SIREN, status, activity and directors. - **Internet Archive** (1 tool, free): How long its website has existed, from the Wayback Machine’s snapshots. - **Serper** (2 tools, at most $0.05): Google News and web results for lawsuits, liquidation or fraud. ## Give this to your agent ```text Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: company due diligence. Run due diligence on a company. First ask me for its name, country and website, and its LEI or registration number if I have it. Confirm its legal identity with gleif/lei-record. If it is French, read its registry entry with recherche-entreprises/search; if it is US-listed, read its filings with sec-edgar/company-filings. Check its website’s first and latest snapshots with wayback/availability. Search the news and the web for lawsuits, liquidation or fraud with serper/news and serper/search. For a US business without filings, offer a KYB check with exa/baselayer and quote it first. Finish with a report (identity and status, registry facts, website history, press, red flags with links) and the questions I should ask before signing. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged. ``` ## You provide - The company’s name and country - Its website - Its LEI or registration number, if you have it ## What you get: a due diligence report with sources - Its legal name, address and status, from two official sources - Its activity and directors, from the registry - How long its website has existed - Red flags in the press, each with a link, and the questions to ask ## How to run due diligence on a company in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: One French company with an LEI, its registry entry, 2 website snapshots, 3 news searches and 2 web searches. ### 1. Confirm who they are GLEIF returns the legal name, address and status registered with the company’s LEI. - [LEI record lookup](/tools/gleif/lei-record.md) `gleif/lei-record` (GLEIF, 1 company): free ### 2. Read the registry For a French company, the Sirene registry gives its SIREN, status, activity and directors. For a US-listed company, its SEC filings. - [French company search](/tools/recherche-entreprises/search.md) `recherche-entreprises/search` (Recherche d’entreprises, 1 company): free - [SEC EDGAR company filings](/tools/sec-edgar/company-filings.md) `sec-edgar/company-filings` (SEC EDGAR, 1 company, optional): free ### 3. Check its history The Wayback Machine shows when the website was first archived, and its latest copy. - [Archived page lookup](/tools/wayback/availability.md) `wayback/availability` (Internet Archive, first snapshot): free - [Archived page lookup](/tools/wayback/availability.md) `wayback/availability` (Internet Archive, latest snapshot): free ### 4. Look for red flags Serper searches Google News and the web for lawsuits, liquidation, fraud or complaints. - [Google News search](/tools/serper/news.md) `serper/news` (Serper, 3 searches): at most $0.03 - [Google web search](/tools/serper/search.md) `serper/search` (Serper, 2 searches): at most $0.02 ### 5. Check a US business For a US business without filings, Baselayer, through Exa, resolves its officers and state registrations. It costs more, so your agent asks first. - [Baselayer](/tools/exa/baselayer.md) `exa/baselayer` (Exa, 1 business, optional): at most $5.00 ### 6. Write the report Your AI writes the report with a source for each fact, and flags what it couldn’t verify. Example total: at most $0.05. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - Check this French supplier before we pay the deposit: SIREN 123 456 789. - Is this company still active, and who are its directors? - How long has this vendor’s website existed? - Any lawsuits or liquidation news about this distributor? ## Why through Agentik - Two official registries, the Internet Archive and Google search through one connection. - The registries and the archive are free, and each search costs at most a cent. ## Good to know - This is a first check from public sources: not legal or financial advice, and not a replacement for a regulated KYC process. - A clean report means nothing turned up in these sources, not that nothing exists. ## When to use something else For regulated KYC or AML checks, use a licensed provider; Agentik gathers the public evidence quickly, before you commit. ## Company due diligence: questions ### Which countries work? GLEIF covers companies with an LEI worldwide. The registry step covers France (Sirene) and US SEC filers; elsewhere your agent relies on GLEIF, the website and the press. ### Couldn’t I check each source myself? You could, one site at a time. Through Agentik your AI queries all four providers from one connection and writes the report; the example costs at most $0.05. ### What does the example cost? At most $0.05: the registries and the archive are free. ## Keep going - [Account research](/account-research.md): Their site, latest news, official filings and the profiles of the people you’ll meet, in a one-page brief with sources. - [B2B lead list](/b2b-lead-list.md): People who match your buyer, emails found by two providers and verified, and a recent news hook for each company. - [Market research](/market-research.md): The companies in the space, their pricing pages, Google search demand for the category, and what buyers say on Hacker News and X. - [Company data tools for your agent](/tools/company.md) - [Knowledge tools for your agent](/tools/knowledge.md) - [News tools for your agent](/tools/news.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/company-due-diligence) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)