---
title: "Search companies by name or keyword. Returns a normalized Company page."
method: POST
path: "/v2/ops/business.company.search"
tags: ["business"]
---

# Search companies by name or keyword. Returns a normalized Company page.

`POST /v2/ops/business.company.search`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.agentkey.app`
- URL: `https://api.agentkey.app/v2/ops/business.company.search`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Name / keyword search over business-data providers. RootData (crypto projects and funds, plus many non-crypto companies) is tried first, Crunchbase is the fallback. Company.id is provider-scoped (RootData digits, Crunchbase permalink) and routes business.company.get / business.company.funding to the same provider.

Fixed price: 0.1 credits per successful call, whichever provider serves it.

## Request body

- object
  - `cursor` string: Opaque pagination cursor from the previous response's next_cursor. Send the same query parameters with it.
  - `fields` string[]: Projection: keep only these dotted paths of data, e.g. ["items.id", "items.text"].
  - `include_raw` boolean: Attach the raw upstream payload as `raw` (not a stable contract; truncated above 256 KB).
  - `limit` integer: Maximum number of results to return.
  - `provider` string: Shorthand for routing.only = [provider].
  - `query` string, required: Company name or keyword (on RootData also a token symbol or X handle).
  - `routing` Routing: Provider routing override. order: try these providers first; only: restrict to these (equivalent to pinning); allow_fallbacks: false tries only the first eligible provider.
    - `allow_fallbacks` boolean: false = try only the first eligible provider.
    - `only` string[]: Restrict to these providers.
    - `order` string[]: Providers to try first, in order.
    - `strategy` 'auto': How eligible providers are ordered. auto = the method's curated order. fastest / stable / popular are specified but not implemented yet (400 until then). The price is fixed whatever the strategy; mutually exclusive with order.

## Response `200`

Success envelope

- CompanyPageEnvelope: Success envelope whose data is a CompanyPage.
  - `attempts` Attempt[], required
    - `error_type` string: validation | not_found | rate_limit | timeout | upstream_unauthorized | upstream_unavailable | provider_error
    - `provider` string, required: Provider slug.
    - `refunded` boolean: true when the reservation for this attempt was refunded.
    - `status` integer, required: HTTP status AgentKey mapped this attempt to (200 on success).
    - `took_ms` integer, required
    - `tool` string, required: Registry tool name (Provider/operation) that was called.
    - `upstream_status` integer: The provider's real HTTP status; absent when nothing was received.
  - `credits_charged` number, required: Credits charged for this call (the method's fixed price).
  - `data` object, required: One page of companies.
    - `items` Company[], required
      - `categories` string[], nullable, required: Industry / sector tags as the provider names them.
      - `description` string, nullable, required: Short description / one-liner as plain text.
      - `employee_range` string, nullable, required: Headcount band as reported, e.g. 11-50, 1001-5000, 10001+.
      - `founded_at` string, nullable, required: Founding date as the provider reports it: YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD.
      - `funding_total` object, required: Total disclosed funding.
        - `amount` number, nullable, required: Amount in major units.
        - `currency` string, nullable, required: ISO 4217 currency code (RootData reports USD).
      - `id` string, required: Provider-scoped company id: a RootData project id (digits) or a Crunchbase permalink. Pass it to business.company.get / business.company.funding; the server routes on its form.
      - `last_funding_type` string, nullable, required: Most recent round type as the provider names it (seed, series_a …).
      - `location` string, nullable, required: Headquarters / operating region as a display string (city, region, country).
      - `logo_url` string, nullable, required: Logo image URL.
      - `name` string, required: Company name.
      - `status` string, nullable, required: Operating status when reported: active | closed | ipo | acquired.
      - `url` string, nullable, required: Profile page on the provider (rootdata.com / crunchbase.com).
      - `website` string, nullable, required: Company website.
    - `next_cursor` string, nullable, required: Opaque cursor for the next page; null when exhausted or the provider cannot page.
  - `op` string, required: Method name.
  - `op_version` integer, required: Method version that served the call.
  - `provider` string, required: Provider that actually served the call.
  - `raw` unknown
  - `raw_truncated` boolean
  - `request_id` string, required: Correlation id; quote it in support requests.
  - `took_ms` integer, required
  - `unsupported_fields` string[], required: Output paths this provider structurally does not supply; such fields are null for a different reason than 'missing on this record'.

## Other responses

- `400`: Validation error (unknown field, bad cursor, bad routing)
- `402`: Insufficient credits
- `404`: Not found (method, or upstream object)
- `429`: Rate limited upstream
- `502`: All providers failed
- `504`: Timed out

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