# corporate_registry_lookup

Resolve legal information about a company from its national corporate registry. Returns a normalised, sourced company profile: legal status, registration number, directors, shareholders, recent filings, registered address, share capital, and a quality score (0–100). Coverage: France (INPI, keyless — full SIREN/SIRET with directors), 3M+ entities worldwide via GLEIF LEI (keyless, large companies), UK (Companies House, optional key), Netherlands (KvK, optional key), and OpenCorporates (token required since 2026). Sources are tried in cascade; quality_score increases with each source that succeeds. When to use: due-diligence, KYC screening, supplier verification, M&A research, or any workflow needing verified company identity and legal status. Optional env vars: COMPANIES_HOUSE_API_KEY (UK), KVK_API_KEY (NL), OPENCORPORATES_API_TOKEN (OpenCorporates token).

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `corporate_registry_lookup`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-getgapup-gapup-mcp/corporate-registry-lookup

## Facts

- Tool: `corporate_registry_lookup`
- Server: Gapup Mcp (`https://mcp.gapup.io/mcp`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-getgapup-gapup-mcp.md
- Homepage: https://github.com/getgapup/gapup-mcp-public
- Risk category: Read (Low risk)
- Registry record: grade F, identity unverified
- Server auth posture: open
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 4 (1 required)
- Recommended policy verdict: Allowed

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `async` | boolean | no | If true, returns a job_id immediately (<200ms) instead of waiting for the result. Poll the result with job_result(job_id). Use for slow tools to avoid client ti |
| `country` | string | no | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. 'FR', 'GB', 'NL', 'DE', 'SG', 'AU', 'US'). If omitted, inferred from legal suffix in company name, then falls back to glob |
| `identifier` | string | no | Optional registry identifier for a fast direct lookup: SIREN (FR, 9 digits), Companies House number (GB, 8 chars), KvK number (NL, 8 digits), etc. |
| `company_name` | string | yes | Company name or trading name to look up (e.g. 'Sanofi', 'Tesco PLC', 'Notion Labs Inc') |

Parameters from the server's own tool schema.

## Example call (MCP tools/call, JSON-RPC 2.0)

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "corporate_registry_lookup",
    "arguments": {
      "company_name": "<company_name>"
    }
  }
}
```

## Why corporate_registry_lookup is rated Low

This is clearly a Read category tool—it queries external data sources (corporate registries, GLEIF, Companies House, KvK, OpenCorporates) and returns structured company intelligence. No side effects are described.

From the tool's own definition: "Tool 'resolves legal information about a company from its national corporate registry' and 'returns a normalised, sourced company profile' including 'legal status, registration number, directors, shareholders, recent filings, registered address, share…"

## Use case

AI agents call corporate_registry_lookup to retrieve information from Gapup Mcp without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer)

Verdict: **Allowed**. Enforced by the PolicyLayer MCP gateway (https://policylayer.com/mcp-gateway) before a call reaches Gapup Mcp:

```json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "corporate_registry_lookup": {}
  }
}
```

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## For agents

This record is a snapshot. Live verdicts and the full registry:

- Check every server in your MCP config at once: `npx -y policylayer stack`
- Vet a server before you add it: install the mcp-precheck skill — `npx skills add https://policylayer.com` (skill text: https://policylayer.com/skill.md)
- Query the registry over MCP: endpoint `https://api.policylayer.com/mcp` — tools `check_mcp_server`, `check_mcp_stack`, `check_tool`, `search_registry`, `get_change_events`

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