Policies - safely.bio Customer Screening API

Each request names a screening policy in policy. The policy fixes which checks run and the rules that set the recommendation, so your code never depends on individual checks. We agree the policies you can use when we set up your account.

Policy	Use it for	Areas checked
`basic-onboarding`	A new customer at account creation	Restrictions, organization, affiliation, scientist
`dna-synthesis-standard`	A customer before you ship to them	Everything in `basic-onboarding`, plus the address

What each area checks

Area	Checks
Restrictions	Sanctions lists for the person and the organization, export-control lists and country restrictions.
Organization	Whether the organization appears in public registries, such as the Research Organization Registry (ROR), Wikidata and the Legal Entity Identifier index, and whether it works in the life sciences.
Affiliation	Whether public records, such as publications, ORCID and the email domain, link the person to the organization. A personal email address gives a note, not a flag.
Scientist	Whether the person has a record of life sciences research.
Address	Whether the address is close to the organization and in the country given, and whether it is residential or a mail drop such as a PO box.

When registries and public records cannot settle an area, AI research searches the web for cited evidence before the screening finishes.

Fields each policy uses

Both policies use customer.name, customer.email, customer.organization, customer.country and, when given, customer.orcid. dna-synthesis-standard also uses customer.shipping_address, or customer.billing_address when there is no shipping address. Without an address, the address area is not_checked.

Coming later

A later version adds an optional order object for order screening: your own sequence screening result, the organism and the customer’s intended use. You will not need to change existing requests.