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Use when the user looks for public contracts to bid on: open tenders from TED, the EU's official journal, by country, CPV code, keywords, deadline and minimum value, with English titles, buyer, deadline and value. For the Netherlands it adds national below-threshold tenders from TenderNed, which TED does not have. Costs 0.005 USDC via x402, or 3 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when the user gives an EU VAT number and you need to know if it is valid: live check in the European Commission's VIES service for all 27 member states plus Northern Ireland, with the registered company name and address where shared. Input: VAT number with country prefix, e.g. IE6388047V. Costs 0.003 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.

Free. Use when the user wants to use Factline's paid checks without a crypto wallet: issues a trial API key (2,000 credits a month) to the user's work email. Ask the user for their email first; never invent one. One key per email.

Use when you need to check an IBAN before a payout or invoice: length per country, mod-97 checksum (catches typos), SEPA membership, and for Dutch IBANs the bank (ING, ABN AMRO, Rabobank, bunq...). Does not confirm the account holder. Costs 0.001 USDC via x402, or 1 credit of a Factline API key.

Use when onboarding a customer, seller or business and you want one answer: screens the name against EU, UN, UK and US sanctions and the PEP list, verifies email and phone, and checks an EU VAT number in VIES, all in parallel, with one verdict: pass, review, block_review or incomplete. Send any of name, email, phone, vat. Costs 0.01 USDC via x402, or 5 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when enriching a list of Dutch addresses (up to 10 per call, 0.0015 USDC each): official BAG address and coordinates, CBS neighbourhood, liveability percentile, crime per 1,000 residents vs national, average home value and optionally the energy label. Unfound addresses are flagged, not charged extra. Costs 0.015 USDC via x402, or 8 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you need to check that a Dutch address exists or get its exact spelling and coordinates: official BAG address from postcode + house number or free text, latitude/longitude, BAG ids, municipality, province and CBS neighbourhood code. Cheap address validation for onboarding, delivery and CRM. Source: Kadaster BAG via PDOK. Costs 0.002 USDC via x402, or 1 credit of a Factline API key.

Use when you have coordinates in the Netherlands and need the address: nearest official BAG address with distance in metres, postcode, city, municipality, province, BAG ids and CBS buurt and wijk codes, plus other nearby addresses. Input: WGS84 latitude and longitude. Source: Kadaster BAG via PDOK. Costs 0.002 USDC via x402, or 1 credit of a Factline API key.

Use when the user asks when a Dutch car's APK (MOT) expires or whether it is still valid: expiry date, days left and a status band (expired, due within 30 or 90 days, ok), with insurance and open-recall flags. Cheap enough to run daily for a fleet. Input: Dutch licence plate. Source: RDW. Costs 0.001 USDC via x402, or 1 credit of a Factline API key.

Free. Use when the user asks how reliable a car model is, or which used car to buy: facts for the model in the Netherlands from RDW data: APK (MOT) defect rate vs the average of all models, the 10 most common APK defects, recalls with component and risk, share with an open recall, share with an illogical (rolled-back) odometer, cars registered. Covers ~450 common passenger-car models.

Use when the user asks whether a Dutch neighbourhood or postcode is safe: police-registered crime per 1,000 residents vs the national rate, split into burglary, bicycle theft, vehicle crime, violence and vandalism, with counts and a ratio. Input: Dutch postcode or CBS buurt code. Source: Politie open data, CBS. Costs 0.003 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when the user asks for the energy label of a Dutch home: the officially registered label (A++++ to G), registration and expiry date, building type and energy index, or a clear 'none registered'. Input: postcode + house number. Source: RVO EP-Online, the Dutch national register. Costs 0.005 USDC via x402, or 3 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when the user asks if a Dutch address can flood: annual flood probability (any water, over 20, 50 and 200 cm) from Rijkswaterstaat LIWO, 2050 and 2100 climate scenarios, worst-case water depth and ground height vs sea level (AHN). Input: postcode + house number. Costs 0.004 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.

Free. Use when the user mentions a Dutch address or asks about a home in the Netherlands: year built, floor area, use, neighbourhood residents and average home value, liveability percentile, in English. Accepts postcode + house number or free text. Sources: BAG, CBS, Leefbaarometer.

Use when the user is choosing between 2 to 5 Dutch addresses: side-by-side liveability, crime, home values, floor area, year built, noise, air quality, ground height and distances to station, supermarket, school and GP, with the best address per metric and the full report for each. Input: addresses separated by ';'. Costs 0.08 USDC via x402, or 40 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when the user asks about a specific Dutch home or address before renting, buying or moving: full English report with year built, floor area, energy label, crime vs national rate, noise, air quality (NO2, PM2.5), ground height, monuments, permits, schools, 18 amenity distances, neighbourhood income and home values. Input: postcode + house number. Sources: Kadaster, CBS, Politie, RIVM, RVO. Costs 0.04 USDC via x402, or 20 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when the user asks what homes cost in a Dutch area: average home value (WOZ) in the neighbourhood with its trend, plus actual average sale prices per year in the municipality vs the national average. Context for an asking price, not a valuation of one home. Input: postcode or CBS buurt code. Source: CBS, Kadaster. Costs 0.003 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you need to know if a Dutch company is bankrupt or in suspension of payments: live check in the Centraal Insolventieregister (Rechtspraak) with active and ended cases, court, case number, dates, administrator and claims deadline. Legal entities only. Input: KvK number or company name. Costs 0.01 USDC via x402, or 5 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when the user asks what a Dutch neighbourhood or postcode area is like: residents and age mix, housing and home values, household income, energy use, distances to 18 amenities, police-registered crime vs national rate and liveability score, in English. Input: any postcode or CBS buurt code. Sources: CBS, Politie, Leefbaarometer. Costs 0.01 USDC via x402, or 5 credits of a Factline API key.

Free. Use when the user asks what a Dutch neighbourhood or postcode area is like, or whether it is safe: headline facts for a postcode: residents, average home value (WOZ) and the municipality's average sale price, share of owner-occupied homes, liveability percentile, crime per 1,000 residents vs the national rate, and distance to supermarket, GP, primary school and train station. Sources: CBS, Politie, Leefbaarometer.

Use when you need every address in a Dutch postcode: street, house number, letter and addition, BAG id and coordinates, sorted. For address pickers, delivery and canvassing routes and data cleaning. Source: Kadaster BAG via PDOK. Costs 0.005 USDC via x402, or 3 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when a tenant asks if their Dutch rent is too high or what the maximum rent is: estimated rent points (WWS) from floor area, energy label and neighbourhood WOZ, the likely segment (social up to 143 points, middle 144-186, free 187+) and the approximate maximum basic rent (2026 limits). An estimate with a link to the official check. Input: postcode + house number. Costs 0.01 USDC via x402, or 5 credits of a Factline API key.

Free. Use when the user asks about schools near a Dutch address or postcode, or is moving with children: the nearest primary and secondary schools, with distance, denomination, pupils, the share of pupils reaching the target reading and maths level on the end-of-primary test (vs national), and secondary exam pass rates per track (vmbo/havo/vwo). Also the nearest daycare (0 to 4) and after-school care (4 to 12) with registered places. Sources: DUO, Landelijk Register Kinderopvang.

Free. Use when the user gives a Dutch licence plate or asks about a specific car in the Netherlands: make, model, age, fuel, Euro class, APK (MOT) expiry, insurance, open recall, RDW odometer verdict and a risk level. Source: RDW.

Use when the user is choosing between 2 or 3 Dutch used cars: plates side by side with make, model, age, APK expiry, insurance, open recall, odometer verdict, import and taxi history, catalogue price, CO2 and power, the best per metric and red flags. Input: Dutch licence plates. Source: RDW. Costs 0.004 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when the user asks about a specific Dutch car or licence plate, for example before buying it used: make, model, APK expiry and full inspection history with defects, insurance, open recalls, RDW odometer verdict, import/taxi/export history, specs, CO2, catalogue price and risk flags, in English. Input: Dutch licence plate. Source: RDW. Costs 0.02 USDC via x402, or 10 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when screening a list of up to 25 names for politically exposed persons in one call (0.0012 USDC per name): top 3 possible matches per name with positions and status. For customer-base and CRM re-screening. Costs 0.03 USDC via x402, or 15 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you must check whether a person is a politically exposed person (PEP) for AML/KYC: heads of state and government, ministers of every country, central bank governors, MEPs and national MPs of the EU, EEA, UK, US and Switzerland, current or former (default 5 years). Fuzzy matching with positions, country and dates. Pairs with sanctions screening. Costs 0.005 USDC via x402, or 3 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you need to send an e-invoice or check if a company can receive one: looks the company up in the Peppol Directory by VAT number, company number (Belgian KBO, French SIREN, Dutch KvK...) or name, and returns its Peppol participant ids and accepted documents (invoice, credit note, self-billing, orders). Belgium requires Peppol B2B e-invoicing since 2026; France requires e-invoice receipt from 2026-09. Costs 0.003 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you need to check a phone number from any country: valid and possible against allocated ranges, E.164 and national format, country, and line type (mobile, landline, VoIP, toll-free, premium) with an SMS-capable hint. National numbers need a country, e.g. 0612345678 with country=NL. Costs 0.003 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when a crypto service sends to or receives from a self-hosted wallet and must document its checks (EU AMLR, Travel Rule files): screens the wallet against OFAC-listed addresses, the claimed owner against EU, UN, UK and US sanctions and PEP, and checks the company register for businesses. Returns no_hits, review or block_review with list versions and a signed receipt. Input: wallet, owner, optional owner_type, birth_year, country. Costs 0.02 USDC via x402, or 10 credits of a Factline API key.

Use before an agent pays a supplier invoice: supplier in official registers; company, directors, owners and parents screened (EU, UN, UK, US sanctions, PEP); VAT match; IBAN valid, same country, on the Polish whitelist; sender email; Dutch bankruptcy; Peppol. With known_iban, a different bank account than the one on file puts it on hold. Verdict: pass, review or hold. Costs 0.08 USDC via x402, or 40 credits of a Factline API key.

Use to verify a US listed company or SEC registrant: finds it by name, ticker or CIK and returns its SEC record (legal name, former names, tickers and exchanges, EIN, state of incorporation, industry code, business address, latest 10-K/20-F and 10-Q dates). Private US companies are not in EDGAR. Input: name, ticker or cik. Costs 0.01 USDC via x402, or 5 credits of a Factline API key.

Use before buying from, selling to or shipping to a company, above all a Chinese or Russian one: screens the name against the US Consolidated Screening List (Commerce, State and Treasury export-control lists, without the SDN list, which the sanctions screen covers) and the DHS UFLPA Entity List (forced-labour import ban). These restrict trade, they are not asset freezes. Input: name, optional type (entity or person), threshold. Costs 0.005 USDC via x402, or 3 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when the user wants to be told later: watches one item for 30 days, paid once, no account. kind=sanctions (a name, re-screened when the EU, UN, UK or US lists change), company (COUNTRY:name or number, register checked daily) or apk (Dutch plate, daily). Alerts go to webhook and to /v1/watch/alerts with the returned token. Input: kind, value, optional webhook, label. Costs 0.05 USDC via x402, or 25 credits of a Factline API key.

Free. Use right before paying an x402 seller: screens the payTo wallet against the OFAC list, checks that payTo is a wallet this seller lists in the x402 Bazaar or Circle catalogue (catches a swapped or injected payTo), looks up the seller's payer history, age and uptime, and checks the amount against the seller's listed price and your budget. Returns allow, review or deny with reasons and a signed verdict. Input: url of the resource, pay_to from its 402, optional amount_usd, max_usd, network, mode (strict: deny instead of review on a wallet mismatch or missing pay_to).

Use before an agent pays an x402 endpoint it has not used before: reads the seller's own 402 challenge, screens every payTo wallet against the OFAC list, checks the domain (age, setup), Factline's daily uptime probes and, with company, the register record and EU/UN/UK/US sanctions. Returns allow, review or deny, plus a trust-provider block (decision, score, evidence, ttl). Input: url, optional wallet, company, country. Costs 0.01 USDC via x402, or 5 credits of a Factline API key.

Free. Use when looking for an x402 API to pay for a task, or to see if a seller is used and up: sellers from the Coinbase x402 Bazaar ranked by unique payers (30 days), with Factline's daily check that their endpoints answer a valid 402, speed and networks. Filter with q (e.g. sanctions, weather, search).