Pre-fill Business
Fast typeahead lookup that returns ranked, already-canonical candidate
business profiles for a name, business number (BN), or registration
number. Designed to power an as-you-type autocomplete that auto-populates
a business record — it is intentionally lightweight and does not run
the full /search orchestration (no website analysis, sanctions, or
report fetch).
Sources are queried in parallel and merged, then deduplicated and ranked.
A slow or unavailable source is skipped without blocking the response —
inspect sourcesSucceeded / sourcesFailed to see which contributed.
Identifier-shaped queries (BN, registration number) are auto-detected and exact matches are pinned to the top.
Typical response time: under 1 second.
Authorizations
API key as Bearer token: Authorization: Bearer cur_live_xxxxx
Body
Response
Ranked candidate businesses
The query that was processed (trimmed).
How the query was interpreted. A ranking hint — all sources still run.
name, bn, registration_number, federal_corp_number Ranked candidates (highest match first), capped at limit.
Sources that responded successfully (a source can succeed with zero matches).
A data source contributing candidates: business_registries Canadian Business Registries · federal_corporations Corporations Canada · orgbook_bc BC registry (OrgBook) · regulatory regulatory registries (charities, MSB, cannabis, etc.).
business_registries, federal_corporations, orgbook_bc, regulatory Sources that timed out or errored. Their absence never blocks the response.
A data source contributing candidates: business_registries Canadian Business Registries · federal_corporations Corporations Canada · orgbook_bc BC registry (OrgBook) · regulatory regulatory registries (charities, MSB, cannabis, etc.).
business_registries, federal_corporations, orgbook_bc, regulatory