How should I use the officer_names field?

officer_names is a list of people you already associate with the business, typically the owners, officers, or authorized signers declared during the application. Submitting them does three things:

• Confirms the association. The response returns business_officer_match and registered_agent_match so you can see whether each declared person appears on the filing.

• Screens them against watchlists. Every submitted name is checked against the sanctions and exclusion lists alongside the officers we find.

• Monitors them. If the business is added to Portfolio Monitoring, submitted names are included in ongoing screening even if they did not match a filed officer.

Tips:

• Submit full names. First and last name are what the match uses; middle names and suffixes are ignored, and a first name alone will not match.

• Use alternative_names for DBAs and trade names, not officer_names.

• You can include owners and signers who are not formally officers. A NO_MATCH result on them is expected and does not affect the KYB rating.

For liens and litigation on the same people, officers are not searched automatically. Pass them as additional_search_entities on those requests instead.