Bosco Labs blog: official-source data for AI agents https://boscolabs.dev/blog/index.html 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z Bosco Labs How to check if a company is sanctioned, with an APIhttps://boscolabs.dev/blog/check-if-company-is-sanctioned-api.html2026-11-09T00:00:00Z2026-11-09T00:00:00ZScreen a company name against the OFAC, UK, EU and UN sanctions lists from code, read a match properly, and know what a name check can't catch. Check UK company insolvency with the Companies House APIhttps://boscolabs.dev/blog/companies-house-api-insolvency-check.html2026-11-09T00:00:00Z2026-11-09T00:00:00ZWhich Companies House API fields show liquidation or administration, why has_insolvency_history is deprecated, and what the register misses. With Python. We lost our own benchmark: web search vs. one API callhttps://boscolabs.dev/blog/counterparty-check-benchmark.html2026-11-09T00:00:00Z2026-11-09T00:00:00ZWeb search vs. one counterparty-check API call on 25 companies: we lost the first run, found four bugs and reran it. Scores, cost, time and limits. A KYB MCP server for AI agents: setup and limitshttps://boscolabs.dev/blog/kyb-mcp-server-ai-agents.html2026-11-09T00:00:00Z2026-11-09T00:00:00ZConnect a remote MCP server that checks register status, insolvency and sanctions in one tool call, and teach your agent what 'unverified' means. Validate EU VAT numbers with the VIES API in Pythonhttps://boscolabs.dev/blog/vies-vat-check-api-python.html2026-11-09T00:00:00Z2026-11-09T00:00:00ZThe official VIES REST endpoint, a small Python function around it, the errors you'll hit, and what a valid VAT number does and doesn't prove.