Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Africa Compliance Data API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Africa Compliance Data API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fafricacompliancedata.com%2Fafricacompliancedata" | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fafricacompliancedata.com%2Fafricacompliancedata" | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Africa Compliance Data API.

Look up VAT rates, registration thresholds, and the legal basis for 54 African countries

Retrieve resident and non-resident withholding tax rates, including treaty rates by partner country

Validate a tax ID against the official format for a country

Get public holidays, business-day calculations, and iCalendar feeds per country

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Africa Compliance Data API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Agent-driven tax lookups with citations

An AI agent preparing a cross-border transaction can ask for a country's VAT rate, withholding tax, and any applicable treaty rate and receive each value with a citation to the law or tax authority page behind it. Because the Africa Compliance Data API sources every response, the agent can show where a number came from rather than asserting an uncited figure.

Look up the standard VAT rate and the registration threshold for a country, then read the cited legal basis returned with the response

Cross-border withholding calculations

A finance team paying a vendor in another country needs the correct withholding tax rate, which often depends on a tax treaty between the paying and receiving countries. The API returns resident and non-resident withholding rates plus the treaty maximum rate per partner country, so the team applies the right rate with a source to back it.

Retrieve the withholding tax rates for a country and the treaty maximum rate for a specific partner country

Compliance-aware scheduling

Operations that run on a working-day cadence across African markets need accurate holiday and business-day data per country. The API answers whether a date is a working day, counts working days between two dates, and serves holiday calendars as iCalendar feeds, so scheduling respects each country's actual calendar.

Check whether a given date is a business day in a country and count the working days until a filing deadline

Key Endpoints

21 endpoints — the africa compliance data api returns tax and compliance reference data for 54 african countries, with every response citing its official source such as a law, gazette, or tax authority page.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/v1/countries

List the 54 countries with currency and coverage per feature

GET

/v1/countries/{country}

Full compliance profile of one country

GET

/v1/countries/{country}/vat

VAT rates, registration threshold, and legal basis

GET

/v1/countries/{country}/withholding-tax

Resident and non-resident withholding tax rates with treaty rates

GET

/v1/countries/{country}/treaties

Tax treaty maximum withholding rates per partner country

GET

/v1/countries/{country}/holidays

Public holidays of a year

GET

/v1/countries/{country}/tax-id/validate

Check a tax ID against the official format

GET

/v1/countries

List the 54 countries with currency and coverage per feature

GET

/v1/countries/{country}

Full compliance profile of one country

GET

/v1/countries/{country}/vat

VAT rates, registration threshold, and legal basis

GET

/v1/countries/{country}/withholding-tax

Resident and non-resident withholding tax rates with treaty rates

GET

/v1/countries/{country}/treaties

Tax treaty maximum withholding rates per partner country

GET

/v1/countries/{country}/holidays

Public holidays of a year

GET

/v1/countries/{country}/tax-id/validate

Check a tax ID against the official format

Why Jentic?

What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.

Setup

Wiring the Africa Compliance Data API by hand means handling its x-api-key header auth (also accepted as a bearer token), its per-plan access tiers that return a 403 outside your plan, and its per-minute limits yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import it from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it.

Permission scoping

The country code sits in the URL path (/v1/countries/{country}/...), so a rule can pin your agent to one country and the read operations you pick for it. You choose the operations it may call, so webhook creation or deletion is not included unless you add it.

Credential isolation

Your Africa Compliance Data key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'look up a VAT rate' or 'get a country's public holidays', and Jentic returns the matching operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without reading the reference docs.

FAQs

Specific to using Africa Compliance Data API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Africa Compliance Data API use?

The Africa Compliance Data API authenticates with an API key sent in the x-api-key header, which the spec also accepts as a bearer token. The public iCalendar holiday feed needs no key. Through Jentic the key is stored once and injected at call time, so it never appears in your agent's prompt or logs.

Does the Africa Compliance Data API cite its sources?

Yes. Every response cites the official source behind the value, such as a law, gazette, or tax authority page, and states the coverage for that feature in the given country, so an agent can show where each figure came from.

What are the rate limits for the Africa Compliance Data API?

The OpenAPI spec states per-key, per-minute rate limits by plan: 30 on Free, 60 on Starter, 300 on Pro, and 1,000 on Compliance, with full country profiles and the holiday watch sharing a limit of 5 per minute.

How do I look up a VAT rate through Jentic with the Africa Compliance Data API?

Search Jentic for 'look up a VAT rate', which returns the GET /v1/countries/{country}/vat operation with its input schema, then call it with the country code. To run it on your own infrastructure, install Jentic One from its GitHub repo.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Africa Compliance Data API?

Yes. Because the country code sits in the URL path, write a rule that allows only the read operations under one country, such as its VAT and holiday lookups, so the agent reads that country's compliance data and nothing else, and every call is logged.

Africa Compliance Data API

AI ReadinessAI-Aware (B)67/100

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Official vendor OpenAPI document · agent-readyFinanceTaxapiKey, bearer21 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Look up tax and compliance reference data for 54 African countries: VAT rates, withholding tax and treaty rates, tax ID validation, filing deadlines, and public holidays, each cited to an official source.

Use for: Look up the standard VAT rate for Kenya, Find the withholding tax rate between two treaty countries, Check whether a date is a business day in Nigeria, Validate a tax ID format for a given country

Not supported: Does not handle tax filing, payment, or accounting. Use for African tax and compliance reference data only.

The Africa Compliance Data API returns tax and compliance reference data for 54 African countries, with every response citing its official source such as a law, gazette, or tax authority page. It covers VAT rates and registration thresholds, resident and non-resident withholding tax with treaty rates, tax treaties, tax ID format validation, and filing deadlines, alongside public holidays, business-day calculations, and iCalendar feeds. Compliance plans add finance-law change digests and webhooks that notify you when the underlying rules change.

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Foundational Compliance

Base layer of spec validity and structural soundness.

Grade: A+Signals: 4

98%

Lint Results

Aggregated quality score from linter diagnostics, weighted by severity.

100%

Resolution Completeness

Percentage of `$ref` references that resolve successfully.

100%

Specification Validity

Checks whether the API description parses successfully and conforms to its declared specification (e.g., OpenAPI).

75%

Structural Integrity

Structural correctness score based on schema issues using logarithmic dampening.

Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility

Clarity, completeness, and ingestion readiness for developers and tooling.

Grade: B+Signals: 4

Example Density

How richly the API is illustrated with examples.

100%

Example Validity

Percentage of examples that conform to their schemas.

74%

Response Coverage

Percentage of operations with complete response definitions (success, client error, server error).

100%

Tooling Readiness

Health of API ingestion, bundling, and resolution within Jentic pipelines.

AI-Readiness & Agent Experience

Semantic breadth, depth, and agent comprehension for AI systems.

Grade: D+Signals: 4

41%

Description Coverage

Coverage of descriptions across API elements.

Error Standardization

Coverage of RFC 9457 Problem Details for error responses.

100%

OperationId Quality

Coverage, uniqueness, and casing consistency of operationIds for AI inference.

52%

Summary Coverage

Coverage of summaries across operations/tags/info.

Agent Usability

Functional utility, complexity comfort, and AI orchestration readiness.

Grade: A+Signals: 1

94%

Complexity Comfort

Agent comfort level based on API operational and structural complexity.

Security

Trust, risk posture, and security compliance.

Grade: CSignals: 1

55%

Authentication Strength

Average quality of security schemes based on authentication method strength (weakest link for OAuth2).

AI Discoverability

Findability, semantic richness, and reasoning readiness.

Grade: A-Signals: 1

74%

Descriptive Richness

Clarity and depth of descriptions across API elements.

Connect the Africa Compliance Data API to your agent

Capabilities

Start building with Africa Compliance Data API

Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

Related APIs

FAQs

Africa Compliance Data API

Jentic AI Readiness Score

Africa Compliance Data API

Foundational Compliance

Lint Results

Resolution Completeness

Specification Validity

Structural Integrity

Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility

Example Density

Example Validity

Response Coverage

Tooling Readiness

AI-Readiness & Agent Experience

Description Coverage

Error Standardization

OperationId Quality

Summary Coverage

Agent Usability

Complexity Comfort

Security

Authentication Strength

AI Discoverability

Descriptive Richness