Does Venue Authority replace entity-level KYB?
No. Venue Authority adds a local facility regulator signal to an existing merchant review. The API does not establish the legal operator, beneficial owner, or corporate registration behind a trade name.
For payment facilitators
Add facility-level regulator evidence to merchant onboarding.
Resolve a food-service merchant name and address to the local regulator record behind the facility.
The recurring decision
Payment facilitators repeatedly decide whether a submitted food-service location has a regulator record that supports the onboarding file.
Why horizontal data falls short
Entity records identify companies. Place listings identify consumer destinations. Neither one establishes which local regulator record belongs to a submitted facility.
What Venue Authority returns
Venue Authority returns a fail-closed match decision, regulator identifier, source link, snapshot identity, and retained evidence where the source supports it.
Production-compatible API shape
The response shape gives an onboarding system a regulator record and the evidence boundary for the decision.
curl -X POST https://venueauthority.com/api/v1/resolve \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ONE_TIME_KEY' \
-H 'X-Request-Id: onboarding-000001' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{"name":"REDACTED MERCHANT","address":"REDACTED STREET ADDRESS"}'{
"disposition": "accepted",
"reason": "The name and address clear the corpus resolution policy.",
"record": {
"jurisdiction": "nyc",
"sourceId": "REDACTED",
"name": "REGULATOR-REPORTED NAME",
"sourceUrl": "https://data.cityofnewyork.us/..."
},
"snapshot": {"manifestSha256":"...","schemaVersion":"runtime-corpus/v1"},
"requestId": "onboarding-000001"
}Questions buyers ask
What happens when facility identity is ambiguous?
The resolver rejects materially tied candidates and conflicting addresses. A rejected result still records the policy reason, request ID, snapshot identity, and evidence boundary for review.
Can payment facilitators monitor accepted facilities?
Yes. A workspace can add canonical regulator records to a watchlist. Venue Authority records supported source changes and sends signed webhook deliveries with stable event identifiers and bounded retries.
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