API v1 · 14 Endpoints Live · African-First Coverage

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Resolve business names, validate entities, enrich leads, and detect data changes — all from one API. With first-class coverage of South African markets that global APIs miss.

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POST /api/v1/find/business
// Request
{
"name": "ERA Real Estate",
"location": "Cape Town"
}
// Response
{
"name": "ERA Real Estate",
"website": "https://www.era.co.za",
"confidence": { "overall": 0.88, "band": "high_confidence" },
"entity": { "id": "ent_era-real-estate_da86f3ba" }
}

Everything you need to enrich business data

14 endpoints covering discovery, validation, reverse lookups, and bulk enrichment.

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Business Discovery

Resolve loose business names into structured, enriched profiles with confidence scores.

find/business find/by-type find/similar
✅

KYC Validation

Validate business details against public sources. Score 0–1 with per-check breakdown.

validate/business find/by-vat-number
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Reverse Lookups

Resolve phone numbers, email domains, addresses, and VAT numbers back to companies.

find/by-phone find/by-email-domain find/by-address
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Bulk Enrichment

Enrich up to 100 businesses asynchronously. Poll for results or get notified via webhook.

bulk/enrich bulk/status
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Change Detection

Subscribe to entity changes. Get webhook notifications when business data updates.

webhooks entity.changed
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African-First Coverage

SA VAT numbers, company registrations, and local business directories. CIPC coming in Phase 5.

ZA VAT CIPC (Phase 5)
14
Live Endpoints
< 300ms
Cached Response
9
Confidence Signals
4
Data Sources

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composer require bdm/datafinder

Official PHP/Laravel SDK

Install in seconds. Auto-discovers in Laravel. Typed responses for every endpoint.

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your-laravel-app.php
// Find a business
$result = DataFinder::business()
->find('ERA Real Estate',
location: 'Cape Town');
echo $result->topName(); // ERA Real Estate
echo $result->topConfidence(); // 0.88

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