AbstractAPI: Utility Data APIs for Agents

Agents that interact with the real world need clean data. What company is behind this domain? What is the current exchange rate? What time is it for this user? Is this VAT number valid? These are simple questions, but answering them reliably requires specialized infrastructure that most teams don't want to build.

Today we're excited to announce our partnership with AbstractAPI, a platform that provides a full suite of data quality and enrichment APIs trusted by 10,000+ developers and teams at companies like Google, Salesforce, LinkedIn, and Wells Fargo. AbstractAPI handles the undifferentiated data work so your agents can focus on decisions.

What is AbstractAPI?

AbstractAPI offers a set of focused, production-grade APIs that each solve one problem well. Their APIs are RESTful, return JSON, and are backed by SOC 2 Type II compliance, GDPR readiness, and a 99.99% uptime SLA.

Their core products:

Email Reputation API: Assess email reputation, detect risky senders, check deliverability signals, and surface breach context.
Phone Intelligence API: Retrieve carrier, location, messaging, registration, risk, and breach data for phone numbers.
IP Intelligence API: Detect VPNs, proxies, TOR usage, abuse potential, hosting services, relays, and mobile IPs.
Company Enrichment API: Submit a domain or email and get company data such as name, industry, headcount, location, and social profiles.
Web Scraping API: Extract data from websites for agents that need page content without running their own scraping stack.
Website Screenshot API: Capture screenshots of URLs or HTML for monitoring, thumbnails, and visual verification.
Exchange Rates API: Look up live and historical exchange rates for 80+ currencies and convert amounts.
Public Holidays API: Get holidays by country and date.
Timezone API: Get current time for a location or convert time between locations.
IBAN Validation API: Validate International Bank Account Numbers and get associated bank details.
VAT Validation API: Validate VAT numbers and retrieve VAT rate data.
Image Processing API: Compress, convert, and optimize images via URL or upload.

Using AbstractAPI with Orthogonal

AbstractAPI is available through the same Orthogonal SDK your agents already use. One Orthogonal key gives you access to AbstractAPI alongside the rest of your API stack.

Company Enrichment

Turn a domain into a full company profile. Useful for lead qualification, CRM enrichment, and account research.

import Orthogonal from "@orth/sdk";

const orthogonal = new Orthogonal({
  apiKey: process.env.ORTHOGONAL_API_KEY,
});

const company = await orthogonal.run({
  api: "abstractapi/company-enrichment",
  path: "/v2",
  method: "GET",
  query: {
    api_key: "orthogonal",
    domain: "stripe.com",
  },
});

console.log(company.company_name);
console.log(company.industry);
console.log(company.linkedin_url);

Exchange Rates

Get current currency exchange rates for pricing, billing, and financial reporting workflows.

const rates = await orthogonal.run({
  api: "abstractapi/exchange-rates",
  path: "/v1/live",
  method: "GET",
  query: {
    api_key: "orthogonal",
    base: "USD",
    target: "EUR",
  },
});

console.log(rates.base);
console.log(rates.exchange_rates.EUR);

Time Zone Lookup

Resolve a location into local time and timezone metadata for scheduling and international workflows.

const tokyo = await orthogonal.run({
  api: "abstractapi/timezone",
  path: "/v1/current_time",
  method: "GET",
  query: {
    api_key: "orthogonal",
    location: "35.6762,139.6503",
  },
});

console.log(tokyo.datetime);
console.log(tokyo.timezone_location);
console.log(tokyo.timezone_abbreviation);

VAT Validation

Validate VAT numbers and return associated company details for compliance workflows.

const vat = await orthogonal.run({
  api: "abstractapi/vat-validation",
  path: "/v1/validate",
  method: "GET",
  query: {
    api_key: "orthogonal",
    vat_number: "IE6388047V",
  },
});

console.log(vat.valid);
console.log(vat.company.name);
console.log(vat.country.name);

Using x402 Protocol

AbstractAPI on Orthogonal also supports x402, an open protocol that enables native payments in HTTP. Your agents can pay for API calls directly using USDC stablecoins with no separate AbstractAPI account setup.

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "x402-fetch";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const privateKey = process.env.PRIVATE_KEY;
if (!privateKey) {
  throw new Error("PRIVATE_KEY environment variable is required");
}
const account = privateKeyToAccount(
  privateKey.startsWith("0x") ? privateKey : `0x${privateKey}`,
);
const fetchWithPayment = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, account);

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  api_key: "orthogonal",
  domain: "stripe.com",
});

const response = await fetchWithPayment(
  `https://x402.orthogonal.com/abstractapi/company-enrichment/v2?${params}`,
  {
    method: "GET",
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

Using MPP

AbstractAPI also works through MPP, the open standard for machine-to-machine payments co-authored by Tempo and Stripe. Agents can pay for AbstractAPI calls with stablecoins, cards, or Bitcoin on the same endpoint.

import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
import { Mppx, tempo } from "mppx/client";

Mppx.create({
  methods: [tempo({ account: privateKeyToAccount("0x...") })],
});

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  api_key: "orthogonal",
  domain: "stripe.com",
});

const response = await fetch(
  `https://mpp.orthogonal.com/abstractapi/company-enrichment/v2?${params}`,
  { method: "GET" }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

The mppx client handles the 402 challenge, signs a credential with your wallet, and retries with proof of payment.

Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure

AbstractAPI is built for teams that can't afford downtime or bad data:

99.99% uptime SLA backed by a global architecture with redundant service across regions
SOC 2 Type II certified with GDPR compliance baked in
Millisecond response times across all endpoints
Trusted by enterprise including Google, Salesforce, LinkedIn, PepsiCo, Wells Fargo, United Airlines, and Paramount

Use Cases

Lead Verification Pipeline

Before your agent adds a company to a campaign, enrich the domain to understand its name, size, industry, and social profile. Use that context to route the account, personalize outreach, or decide whether it belongs in the campaign at all.

Account Enrichment

A new company domain enters your CRM. Enrich it to get company context, then route it to the right sales team based on size, industry, and geography.

Compliance and KYC

Validate IBAN numbers for banking workflows, verify VAT numbers for cross-border transactions, and resolve geographic context for account records. AbstractAPI covers the data layer so your compliance agents can focus on policy logic.

Utility Data for Agents

Convert currencies for international reporting, resolve local times for scheduled operations, and enrich company records for market monitoring. These utility APIs fill the gaps that most data providers ignore.

Why We Partnered with AbstractAPI

Most enrichment platforms focus on one vertical: either contacts, or companies, or fraud. AbstractAPI covers a different surface area. Their APIs handle the utility data questions that come up across every workflow: what company is behind this domain, what time is it in Tokyo, what is the current exchange rate, is this VAT number valid. These are the building blocks that agents need to operate reliably. The fact that they serve enterprise customers at 99.99% uptime with SOC 2 compliance means your agents can depend on them in production.

Try It Today

Sign up for Orthogonal and get $10 free credits to try AbstractAPI and dozens of other APIs. One key, hundreds of APIs, pay per request.

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