Business Verification

Lean’s Business Verification product enables you to verify that a business is legitimate and retrieve structured data that supports your KYB (Know Your Business) compliance, onboarding, risk, and fraud workflows. The API is designed to return authoritative registry data that can be consumed programmatically or reviewed manually by compliance teams, supporting compliance with SAMA’s due-diligence standards.

When to use Business Verification

Use Business Verification when you need to:

Confirm a company exists and is registered
Validate critical business identity and governance details
Support AML/KYC and regulatory compliance checks
Reduce onboarding risk and automate decisioning
Support lending, payments, or other trust-related flows

The API returns structured verification results that support both automated systems and manual compliance review.

Use Cases

Business Need	Data Types
Onboarding & KYB	Commercial Registration, National Address
Legal Governance Validation	Articles of Association, Manager Permissions
Address Verification & Risk Scoring	National Address
Ownership & Control Checks	Commercial Registration, Manager Permissions
Compliance & Regulatory Reporting	All available data types

What you can retrieve

The Business Verification API supports multiple data types. Each type can be requested with the type parameter in your API call. Detailed field definitions for each type are covered in their respective subpages.

Commercial Registration (Core Registry Data)

Returns structured company registration data, such as:

Entity identifiers
Company status
Founding and issue dates
Legal form and structure
Capital information
Partners and managers
Contact and registry metadata

This is available in two modes:

Full: retrieves complete commercial registry details
Basic: returns a subset of essential registry attributes

You can review detailed coverage on the Commercial Registration subpage.

National Address

Returns verified location data associated with the business, including:

Official business address lines
City, district, and region
Geolocation coordinates (latitude/longitude)
Address identifiers and metadata

Use this to verify a company’s registered physical location, support address-based risk scoring, and enrich your business profiles. Detailed fields and examples are in the National Address subpage.

Articles of Association

Provides access to legal governance data defined in a company’s Articles of Association, including:

Company contract and registry metadata
Legal entity attributes
Partners and shareholders
Management structure

Manager Permissions

Returns detailed authority and representation information for a specific manager including:

Individual identity and nationality
Positions held within the company
Specific authorities such as signing rights, delegation, and power of attorney permissions

The Articles of Association data is ideal for understanding how a company is legally constituted and governed and helps you verify that individuals have the legal authority to act on behalf of the business . Detailed information is in the Articles of Association subpage.

API Reference

Business Verification API