CrawlDex
Preflight detail

dnb.com

legal_admin.lookup_duns

degraded recipe://dnb.com/legal_admin.lookup_duns/public-preflight-v1
Hold / Collect evidence first

Do not trust this route yet

The current evidence set is too thin for a confident agent decision.

Next: Run a canary or submit a trusted outcome before allowing an agent to attempt this unsupervised.
83AES
83% outcome rate
Evidence and trust

low trust

32%
basisBased on 3 evidence samples from catalog reporters.3
sourceSources: public web observation.
nextTreat this as directional until trusted canaries or operator reports arrive.
Confidence low 31%
Evidence 3 public web observation
Freshness 0d fresh
Blockers 1 known friction
Recipe

DUNS Number lookup and request pages; lookup is public, requesting/managing a DUNS requires an account.

active
recipe://dnb.com/legal_admin.lookup_duns/public-preflight-v1
  1. Open the documented public path for Dun & Bradstreet: DUNS Number lookup and request pages; lookup is public, requesting/managing a DUNS requires an account. Public source or help surface is visible.
  2. Check the listed blockers and policy constraints before entering account, payment, booking, or cancellation state. login_required, policy_parseable
  3. Stop before any irreversible or user-sensitive action and ask for explicit approval. User approval is captured before final action.
Human approval
Keep the user present for authentication. Do not request, store, or replay credentials or one-time codes.
Do not cross
  • DUNS is no longer required for US federal registration (UEI replaced it); clarify when it is actually needed.
  • Provide informational workflow guidance only, not legal advice.
Success signals
  • DUNS located for a business
  • Request flow identified
Dimension scores

Why the route scores this way

reachability 71
navigability 83
task completability 83
transactability 83
recoverability 83
policy parseability 83
trust safety 83
efficiency 83
Issue flags

Known blockers

login_required
Policy notes
public pathDUNS Number lookup and request pages; lookup is public, requesting/managing a DUNS requires an account.
task familylookup
seo angleDo You Still Need a DUNS Number? What Changed with UEI
confidence notePublic lookup/request pages documented; the UEI change is the key informational nuance.
launch setfirst 300 public preflight
Recommended actions

Remediation queue

  • mediumagent
    DUNS is no longer required for US federal registration (UEI replaced it); clarify when it is actually needed. Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries.
Agent handoff

Copy this into an agent runbook

legal_admin.lookup_duns
Before attempting legal_admin.lookup_duns on dnb.com, check CrawlDex. Current verdict: Collect evidence first. Run a canary or submit a trusted outcome before allowing an agent to attempt this unsupervised.
curl -sS -X POST /api/v1/preflight \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"site":"dnb.com","task":"legal_admin.lookup_duns","agent_profile":{"stack":"browser-use","browser_runtime":"playwright"}}'
Preflight contract 
{
  "site": "dnb.com",
  "task": "legal_admin.lookup_duns",
  "agent_profile": {
    "stack": "browser-use",
    "browser_runtime": "playwright"
  }
}