business.uk-companies

Official UK company registry (Companies House). Two modes: pass query to search companies by name (returns company number, name, status, type, incorporation date, address), or pass companyNumber for the full registry profile — legal name, status, company type, jurisdiction, incorporation/cessation dates, SIC activity codes, registered office address, accounts (next due, last made-up-to), confirmation-statement due date, charges and insolvency flags, previous names, and the officers list (name, role, appointed/resigned dates, nationality, occupation). Free, Open Government Licence (commercial use permitted). The authoritative UK-company KYB lookup — complements business.lei (GLEIF) and business.br-cnpj (Brazil).

price

$0.0014 USDC per call

method

GET/api/business/uk-companies

payment

x402 v2 · USDC on Base (EIP-3009) or Solana (SPL transfer)

auth

None. Sign the payment, retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.

tier

Tier 0 — no paid upstream

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`query`	string	min 1 chars · max 120 chars
`companyNumber`	string	min 1 chars · max 12 chars
`limit`	integer	min 1 · max 50

Code samples

cURLbash

# 1. Probe with no auth → 402 envelope with PaymentRequirements
curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/business/uk-companies?query=example&companyNumber=example&limit=1'

# 2. Sign + retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE:
curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/business/uk-companies?query=example&companyNumber=example&limit=1' \
  -H 'PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: <base64-json-payload>'

# Or use the canonical runner (handles probe → sign → retry):
#   EVM_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... node --env-file=.env.local \
#     --experimental-strip-types scripts/x402-pay.ts \
#     'https://2s.io/api/business/uk-companies?query=example&companyNumber=example&limit=1'

TypeScript / Node — @2sio/sdktypescript

import { TwoS } from '@2sio/sdk'

const client = new TwoS({
  privateKey: process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY as `0x${string}`,
})

const result = await client.business.ukCompanies({
  "query": "example",
  "companyNumber": "example",
  "limit": 1
})

console.log('endpoint:', result.endpoint)
console.log('cost:', result.costUsd, 'USDC')
console.log('tx:', result.settlement?.txHash)
console.log('data:', result.data)

Python — 2siopython

import os
from twosio import TwoS

client = TwoS(private_key=os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])

result = client.business.uk_companies(query="example", companyNumber="example", limit=1)

print("endpoint:", result.endpoint)
print("cost:", result.cost_usd, "USDC")
print("tx:", (result.settlement or {}).get("tx_hash"))
print("data:", result.data)

MCP — Claude Desktop / AgentKit / any MCP hostjson

// 1. Add @2sio/mcp to your MCP host config (Claude Desktop example below).
//    EVM_PRIVATE_KEY funds x402 payments per call.

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "2sio": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@2sio/mcp"],
      "env": { "EVM_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..." }
    }
  }
}

// 2. Once the server is running, agents call this tool via standard MCP:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "business.uk-companies",
    "arguments": {
      "query": "example",
      "companyNumber": "example",
      "limit": 1
    }
  }
}

Response

Field	Type	Description
`ok`	boolean	one of: true
`items`	array
`total`	integer	Total matching rows upstream; null when unknown.
`source`	object

Example response datajson

{
  "ok": true,
  "items": [
    {
      "mode": "profile",
      "query": {
        "query": "example",
        "companyNumber": "example",
        "limit": 1
      },
      "total": 1,
      "company": {
        "companyNumber": "example",
        "name": "example",
        "status": "example",
        "type": "example",
        "jurisdiction": "example",
        "dateOfCreation": "example",
        "dateOfCessation": "example",
        "sicCodes": [
          "example"
        ],
        "registeredOfficeAddress": "example",
        "accountsNextDue": "example",
        "accountsLastMadeUpTo": "example",
        "confirmationStatementNextDue": "example",
        "hasCharges": false,
        "hasInsolvencyHistory": false,
        "previousNames": [
          "example"
        ],
        "officers": [
          {
            "name": "example",
            "role": "example",
            "appointedOn": "example",
            "resignedOn": "example",
            "nationality": "example",
            "occupation": "example"
          }
        ]
      },
      "results": [
        {
          "companyNumber": "example",
          "name": "example",
          "status": "example",
          "type": "example",
          "dateOfCreation": "example",
          "address": "example"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "provider": "example",
        "url": "example",
        "license": "example"
      },
      "note": "example"
    }
  ],
  "total": 1,
  "source": {
    "provider": "example",
    "url": "example",
    "license": "example"
  }
}

Discovery

/api/directory — full catalog of every endpoint
/openapi.json — OpenAPI 3.1 spec (per-op x-payment-info, x402Payment security)
/.well-known/x402 — machine-readable service descriptor for x402-aware crawlers
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json — MCP SEP-1649 server card
/llms.txt — plain-text manifest for LLM ingestion

2s.io is x402-native. Every call is paid per-request from a USDC-funded EVM wallet on Base — no signup, no API keys, no monthly fees. Source code: github.com/2s-io/sdk.