whetstone

n8n community node for U.S. public-records data: business registration (KYB) across 25 states, new business filings, federal watchlist screening (OFAC/BIS/State Dept), and federal awards (USAspending). Powered by the Whetstone actors on Apify.

Package Information

Released: 4 mo ago
Downloads: 20 weekly / 425 monthly
Latest Version: 0.1.2
Author: Whetstone Tools

Available Nodes

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Whetstone Public Records
Look up U.S. public-records data: business registration (KYB), new business filings, federal watchlist screening, and federal awards. Powered by the Whetstone actors on Apify.

Documentation

n8n-nodes-whetstone

An n8n community node for U.S. public-records data — business
registration, new business filings, federal watchlist screening, and federal awards —
in one node. Useful for KYB/onboarding automations, sanctions/export screening,
sales-lead monitoring, and company enrichment.

Powered by the Whetstone actors on Apify.
All data is official U.S. government public-record data.

Operations

Operation What it returns Powered by
Business Search (KYB) A company's official Secretary of State registration (status, dates, registered agent) across 25 states SoS registries
New Business Filings Newly registered businesses from 10 states, windowed by date — a feed of brand-new companies Official state sources
Watchlist Screen Fuzzy-matched hits against 12 U.S. government watchlists (OFAC SDN, BIS Entity/Denied/Unverified/MEU, State Dept Debarred/ISN, and more) ITA Consolidated Screening List
Federal Awards A company's federal contracts, grants, and loans with amounts, agencies, and dates USAspending.gov

Installation

In n8n: Settings → Community Nodes → Install, then enter:

n8n-nodes-whetstone

(Self-hosted n8n only; community nodes aren't available on n8n Cloud's verified-only
instances unless allowed.)

Credentials

The operations run as actors on Apify, so you need a free Apify
API token:

  1. Create a free account at apify.com.
  2. Go to Settings → API & Integrations → Personal API tokens and copy a token.
  3. In n8n, create a new Whetstone (Apify) API credential and paste the token.

Billing: each operation runs the matching Whetstone actor on your Apify account and
is billed under Apify's pay-per-result pricing (about $2 per 1,000 result rows; a
query that returns nothing costs only trivial compute). Apify's free monthly usage
covers light use.

Example automations

  • Customer onboarding / KYB: when a new deal closes in your CRM → Business Search +
    Watchlist Screen the company name → flag any hit to Slack and attach the registration
    record.
  • Sales lead feed: every morning → New Business Filings (your states, daysBack: 1)
    → append new companies to a Google Sheet / your CRM.
  • Vendor screening: before a payment → Watchlist Screen the payee → block + alert if
    a match scores above your threshold.
  • Account enrichment: for each account → Federal Awards → write total federal
    contract value back to the record.

This node is also usable as a tool by the n8n AI Agent — an agent can call
"Watchlist Screen" or "Business Search" on its own.

Notes & limits

  • Heavy queries can be slow. Business Search across all 25 states (or filings across
    all 10) runs synchronously and may approach the 300-second limit. Narrow the states
    list for faster, cheaper runs.
  • Name-based matching. Watchlist and federal-award results are matched by name and
    are not identity confirmation — verify a hit against the official source before
    acting. Nothing here is legal, compliance, or financial advice.
  • A free, interactive version of the combined lookup is at
    whetstonetools.com/company-check.

License

MIT © Whetstone Tools · support@whetstonetools.com

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