For developers and enterprise

The TradeID API.

What you see on this site is what you consume programmatically. Same data, same provenance, same evidence tiering. Read-only, public, and built for insurers, suppliers, government, and product teams.

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Endpoints

Three reads cover the public surface

GET/companies/public
Paginated index of public company summaries. Filterable by category, location, and licence state.
GET/companies/by-slug/:slug
Full public company record, including categories, licences, location, service area hints, and provenance.
GET/search
Free-text and structured search across the public index. Supports company name, ABN, suburb, and category.

Sample response

{
  "id": "01HV...0K",
  "slug": "acme-plumbing",
  "name": "Acme Plumbing Pty Ltd",
  "status": "active",
  "primaryCategory": { "id": "...", "name": "Plumber" },
  "primaryLocation": { "suburb": "Marrickville", "state": "NSW" },
  "licenses": [
    {
      "authority": "NSW Fair Trading",
      "licenseNumber": "123456C",
      "isVerified": true,
      "rawStatus": "Active",
      "sourceUrl": "https://verify.licence.nsw.gov.au/...",
    }
  ],
  "contacts": { "phone": "...", "email": null, "website": "..." }
}

Use cases

Who's building on top of TradeID

Insurance and risk

Underwrite Australian trade businesses with licence-anchored evidence. Refresh exposure on a rolling cadence.

Supplier and distributor

Validate trade accounts at onboarding. Filter prospects by trade, jurisdiction, and licence state.

Government and council

Cross-reference operators against canonical registers in one query, with consistent provenance.

Product teams

Build internal tooling, CRMs, or marketplaces on top of a clean, public-evidence-tiered company graph.