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 · [email protected]