# AI Analytics — FAQ

> Common questions about checking US federal regulatory 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 the daily-fresh cross-vertical dashboard: CISA KEVs, NHTSA park-it recalls, FDA Class I recalls, federal court filings on high-signal NOS codes (Securities/Patent/Antitrust), DOJ press releases, OFAC sanctions, large insider sells. Updates continuously. Each item links to its canonical detail page. Available as /today (HTML), /today.md (Markdown), /today.json (JSON).

## 📚 About the data

### Where does AI Analytics get its data?

All data comes from US federal primary sources: SEC EDGAR, openFDA, OFAC Treasury, CourtListener (Free Law Project), CFPB, NIST, CISA, NHTSA, DOJ, NIH RePORTER, NSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, USPTO, EPA ECHO, USAspending, Federal Register, Senate LDA, Federal Reserve, USGS, NWS. When .gov SSL endpoints block Cloudflare Workers, we mirror through OpenSanctions. Every record carries dcterms:source pointing to the canonical agency URL.

### How current is the data?

Live row counts and last-refresh timestamps for every dataset are at https://api.ai-analytics.org/coverage. Most datasets refresh daily via Cloudflare cron; some (NPORT-P, 13F) are quarterly because the underlying agency only publishes quarterly. The /today endpoint shows the latest events across all verticals updated continuously.

## 📝 Citation & license

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

Underlying federal works are US public domain under 17 USC §105 and 5 USC §105. Our derived dataset is licensed CC0 1.0 — full attribution-free reuse, including for AI training. Suggested citation: "AI Analytics, retrieved [date] from [endpoint], redistributed under CC0; primary source: [agency URL]." Every endpoint returns a _source envelope with provenance.

## 🛠️ 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 38+ 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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