# AI Analytics — FAQ

> Common questions about checking US regulatory and public data. Every answer routes to a concrete endpoint or canonical URL.

## 🔒 Compliance & KYC

### How do I check if a person or company is on the OFAC SDN sanctions list?

Call https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/sanctions/check?name=YOUR_NAME — checks the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list (19,680 entries plus 30k+ aliases) with fuzzy matching. Each match returns the OFAC UID, sanctions program, and a link to the canonical /sanction/{uid} page. For one-shot compliance, use /api/v1/screening/all?name=X (or ?ticker=, ?cik=, ?uei=, ?npi=) to screen across OFAC + SAM + OIG + DOJ + CFPB + courts + Fed enforcement + NHTSA + CISA in a single call.

### How do I check if a healthcare provider is excluded from Medicare or Medicaid?

Use https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/debarments/check?name=NAME — screens against both the HHS-OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (83,256 entries) and SAM.gov federal-contractor exclusions (106,669 entries). Each match links to a /oig-exclusion/{id} or /sam-debarment/{id} canonical page with exclusion type, statutory basis (42 USC §1320a-7), and reinstatement status.

### How do I check if a federal contractor is debarred?

Use https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/debarments/check?name=NAME or browse recent SAM.gov exclusions at /api/v1/sam-exclusions/recent. Each debarred entity has a canonical page at /sam-debarment/{ext_id} showing exclusion type, program, country, and first/last seen dates.

## 🔍 Search & lookup

### How do I look up CVE vulnerability details combining CISA KEV and NIST NVD?

https://api.ai-analytics.org/cve/{cve_id} returns a canonical detail page combining CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities + NIST NVD data. Example: /cve/CVE-2024-21413 shows severity, CVSS score, ransomware-use flag, CWE codes, and CISA remediation deadline. Append .md for Markdown, .json for schema.org TechArticle JSON-LD.

### How do I find recent FDA recalls or look up a specific recall?

Recent: https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/fda/recalls/recent?product=drug (or food / device). Per-recall canonical detail: /recall/{recall_number}. The canonical pages include classification (Class I/II/III), recalling firm, distribution pattern, and primary FDA source link as HTML + Markdown + schema.org NewsArticle JSON-LD.

### How do I find recent NHTSA vehicle recalls or check a specific recall?

Recent: https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/nhtsa/recent — filter by ?park_it=1 for the most serious "do not drive" recalls. By manufacturer: /api/v1/nhtsa/by-manufacturer/Tesla. Per-recall canonical detail: /nhtsa-recall/{campaign_number} — example /nhtsa-recall/23V295000.

### How do I find federal court cases involving a specific company?

https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/courts/by-party/{company} returns all federal court dockets (CourtListener data) where the company appears as a party. Per-case canonical page: /case/{docket_id}. Filter by Nature of Suit: /api/v1/courts/recent?nos=850 (Securities), 830 (Patent), 410 (Antitrust), 365 (Product Liability).

### How do I find CFPB consumer complaints about a specific company?

https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/cfpb/by-company/{company} returns all CFPB consumer complaints against that company. Each complaint has a canonical page at /complaint/{complaint_id} with the consumer narrative (when published), issue/sub-issue classification, and company response.

### How do I look up an NIH or NSF research grant?

Per-grant canonical pages: https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/{appl_id} (NIH RePORTER) and /grant/nsf/{award_id} (NSF). Each includes amount, recipient organization, principal investigator, activity code, and abstract. Recent: /api/v1/nih/recent and /api/v1/nsf/recent. By organization: /api/v1/nih/by-org/Stanford and /api/v1/nsf/by-org/Stanford.

### How do I find open federal grant funding opportunities?

https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/grants-gov/recent lists current federal funding opportunities (grants.gov). Each opportunity has a canonical page at /opportunity/{opp_id} with the opportunity number, issuing agency, open/close dates, status, and CFDA codes.

### How do I look up clinical trials by sponsor or by NCT ID?

https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/{nct_id} returns a canonical detail page for any ClinicalTrials.gov study — example /clinical/NCT04210115. Includes phase, status, conditions studied, interventions, sponsor + collaborators, and the why_stopped reason if terminated. Recent: /api/v1/clinical/recent?phase=PHASE3 for late-stage pipelines.

### How do I check EPA-regulated facilities or their compliance status?

https://api.ai-analytics.org/facility/{frs_id} returns the canonical page for any EPA-regulated facility — example /facility/110000328333. Includes owner organization, regulatory programs (CAA/CWA/RCRA/EPCRA/SDWA), compliance status, and coordinates. Browse: /api/v1/epa/facilities?owner=Cummins.

### How do I find lobbying disclosures by company?

https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/lobbying/by-client/{company} returns all Senate LDA lobbying filings where that company is the client. Each filing has a canonical page at /lobbying/{filing_uuid} with registrant (lobbying firm), quarterly income/expenses, and itemized activities keyed by general issue code (HCR, ENG, TAX, etc.).

### How do I see all entities active across multiple regulators?

https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/cross-vertical/active returns entities that are active in 2+ regulators simultaneously — the "what companies are touched by both FDA and SEC and federal contracts" view. Useful for identifying multi-vertical regulatory exposure. Filter: ?days=180 for last 6 months.

## 📊 Monitoring & dashboards

### How do I see every regulatory event for a company across SEC, FDA, courts, and contracts?

https://api.ai-analytics.org/entity/{ticker-or-cik-or-uei} returns a unified cross-vertical timeline merging SEC filings, insider trades, Form 144, 13D/G, FDA recalls, federal contracts, lobbying, clinical trials, court dockets, CFPB complaints, NIH grants, NHTSA recalls, DOJ press releases, Fed Reserve enforcement. Each event hyperlinks to its canonical record page. JSON: /api/v1/entity/{key}/timeline. Material only: /api/v1/entity/{key}/material-events.

### What major US federal regulatory events happened today?

https://api.ai-analytics.org/today is an on-request cross-vertical digest. By default it includes indexed records whose source event dates fall within 7 UTC calendar dates ending on the generation date; ?days= accepts 1 through 30. Active weather and forward-looking Form 144 dates are documented exceptions. Source freshness varies, so an empty section is not proof that no source event occurred; check /api/v1/freshness and /coverage. Available as /today (HTML), /today.md (Markdown), /today.json (JSON).

## 📚 About the data

### Where does AI Analytics get its data?

AI Analytics combines US federal sources with non-federal, self-regulatory, and third-party sources. Federal examples include SEC EDGAR, openFDA, OFAC Treasury, CFPB, NIST, CISA, NHTSA, DOJ, NIH RePORTER, NSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, EPA ECHO, USAspending, and the Federal Register. Other sources include FINRA, CourtListener (Free Law Project), and OpenSanctions. Provenance identifies the primary source and applicable source terms.

### How current is the data?

Row counts and recorded refresh timestamps are at https://api.ai-analytics.org/coverage; source-level freshness status is at /api/v1/freshness. Cadence varies by source and recorded timestamps can lag. The /today endpoint applies a real UTC source-date window to indexed records, but it does not prove that every upstream source refreshed inside that window.

## 📝 Citation & license

### Is AI Analytics licensed for AI training use? How do I cite it?

There is no blanket license for every source. Works authored by US federal employees as part of official duties are generally public domain under 17 USC §105, while non-federal, SRO, and third-party material retains its source terms. AI Analytics-authored metadata and normalization are CC0 only where expressly stated. Cite the AI Analytics endpoint and retrieval date, the primary source URL, and the source-specific license or terms fields. Keyless access does not change source terms.

## 🛠️ Developer / agent API

### Is there a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for use with Claude / ChatGPT?

Yes. https://api.ai-analytics.org/mcp is a JSON-RPC over Streamable HTTP MCP server exposing 73 tools for cross-vertical regulatory lookups, no auth required. SEP-1649 server card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json. Registry manifest at /server.json.

### Is there an OpenAPI spec or rate limit?

Yes. https://api.ai-analytics.org/openapi.json is the full OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the REST API. No API key required, no rate limit beyond ordinary Cloudflare anti-abuse. Use Accept: text/markdown or .md suffix on most endpoints for Markdown output suitable for chat ingestion. Use .json suffix or Accept: application/ld+json for schema.org JSON-LD.

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