OFAC Sanctions Screening for Payment AI Agents

Why Payments agents need sanctions screening

Payment routing agents sit between senders and receivers, deciding how and where funds move. That makes them the natural enforcement point for sanctions screening — the last stop before money leaves. agentmail checks every leg of a route: sender, receiver, and intermediary wallets or names.

When an agent orchestrates payouts, refunds, or splits, it inherits the compliance duty for each hop. Screening each party against OFAC in real time means a flagged receiver is blocked before the transaction is authorized, not reconciled after.

One API call per party, sub-second latency, MCP/HTTP/CLI. The free tier covers prototyping; paid tiers scale to 100,000 checks/month.

Example: screen a wallet before paying

curl "https://sanctionsai.dev/sanctions?wallet=0x098B716B8Aaf21512996dC57EB0615e2383E2f96"

Real OFAC data. Free tier: 50 checks/day, no API key.