Inquiries

An Inquiry is the starting point for generating a Business Report in the Verdata API. The Inquiry represents a request submitted by a user or system asking Verdata to retrieve and analyze available information about a business entity.

When an inquiry is submitted, the API uses the provided inputs to identify and evaluate the relevant business, gather data from multiple sources, and return a structured Business Report.

What an Inquiry Does

Submitting an inquiry allows you to:

• Request a Business Report from Verdata

• Provide identifying information about a business

• Trigger data collection from multiple sources

• Receive compiled insights and evaluation results

Inquiry Inputs

An inquiry can include various types of inputs to improve matching accuracy and data coverage. These inputs may include business identifiers, location details, or other relevant attributes.

Providing more complete and accurate inputs helps ensure:

• Better entity matching

• More comprehensive source data

• Higher quality report results

Inquiry Submission Formats

There are two ways to submit inquiries to the Verdata platform:

1. Single Inquiry Submission Submit an individual inquiry object when you need to process a single business request.

2. Batch Inquiry Submission Submit multiple inquiries at once using a batch request. This method allows you to send an array of inquiry objects in a single request for more efficient processing. Current Batch Limit: 1000

Both submission formats support the use of an external ID. This optional identifier allows you to include your own match key so that data can be associated with the inquiry and the resulting Business Report within your internal systems.

Inquiry Results

After an inquiry is processed, the API generates a Business Report that includes:

• Business details

• Source records from contributing data providers

• Facts and properties associated with the business

• Scores and insights derived from the collected data