curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.getcurrent.ca/v1/verify \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "legalName": "Shopify Inc.",
  "jurisdiction": "ON",
  "registrationNumber": "2033076"
}
'

{
  "meta": {
    "verificationId": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
    "verifiedAt": "2026-02-21T12:00:00.000Z",
    "duration": 23400,
    "submitted": {
      "legalName": "Shopify Inc.",
      "jurisdiction": "ON",
      "registrationNumber": "2033076",
      "address": null
    }
  },
  "results": {
    "status": "verified",
    "fields": {
      "legalName": {
        "status": "matched",
        "score": 1,
        "provided": "Shopify Inc.",
        "registry": "SHOPIFY INC."
      },
      "registrationNumber": {
        "status": "matched",
        "score": 1,
        "provided": "2033076",
        "registry": "2033076"
      },
      "address": null
    },
    "analystSummary": "Verification passed for Shopify Inc. (ON-2033076). The legal name and registration number matched the Canadian business registry exactly. The business is currently active and in good standing. No further action is required."
  },
  "registryData": {
    "legalName": "SHOPIFY INC.",
    "registrationNumber": "2033076",
    "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
    "status": "Active",
    "goodStanding": true,
    "addresses": [
      {
        "street": "150 Elgin Street",
        "city": "Ottawa",
        "province": "Ontario",
        "postalCode": "K2P 1L4",
        "country": "Canada",
        "raw": null
      }
    ],
    "people": [
      {
        "name": "Tobias Lutke",
        "titles": [
          "Director"
        ],
        "addresses": []
      }
    ]
  }
}

Verification

Verify Business

Verify customer-provided business data against Canadian business registry records.

Fetches fresh registry data, performs field-level matching with configurable thresholds, and returns structured results with an AI-generated analyst summary.

What gets verified:

Legal name — normalized comparison (strips corporate suffixes like Inc., Corp., Ltd.)
Registration number — normalized similarity match with configurable threshold (strips formatting and jurisdiction prefixes)
Address — per-field fuzzy matching (optional)
People — name and role matching against registry directors/officers (disabled by default)

Matching thresholds default to 1.0 (100%) for exact matches. Set lower values (e.g. 0.85) to allow minor variations — useful for address fields where “Street” vs “St” is acceptable.

Typical response time: 20-40 seconds (registry lookup is the bottleneck)

POST

verify

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.getcurrent.ca/v1/verify \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "legalName": "Shopify Inc.",
  "jurisdiction": "ON",
  "registrationNumber": "2033076"
}
'

{
  "meta": {
    "verificationId": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
    "verifiedAt": "2026-02-21T12:00:00.000Z",
    "duration": 23400,
    "submitted": {
      "legalName": "Shopify Inc.",
      "jurisdiction": "ON",
      "registrationNumber": "2033076",
      "address": null
    }
  },
  "results": {
    "status": "verified",
    "fields": {
      "legalName": {
        "status": "matched",
        "score": 1,
        "provided": "Shopify Inc.",
        "registry": "SHOPIFY INC."
      },
      "registrationNumber": {
        "status": "matched",
        "score": 1,
        "provided": "2033076",
        "registry": "2033076"
      },
      "address": null
    },
    "analystSummary": "Verification passed for Shopify Inc. (ON-2033076). The legal name and registration number matched the Canadian business registry exactly. The business is currently active and in good standing. No further action is required."
  },
  "registryData": {
    "legalName": "SHOPIFY INC.",
    "registrationNumber": "2033076",
    "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
    "status": "Active",
    "goodStanding": true,
    "addresses": [
      {
        "street": "150 Elgin Street",
        "city": "Ottawa",
        "province": "Ontario",
        "postalCode": "K2P 1L4",
        "country": "Canada",
        "raw": null
      }
    ],
    "people": [
      {
        "name": "Tobias Lutke",
        "titles": [
          "Director"
        ],
        "addresses": []
      }
    ]
  }
}

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

API key as Bearer token: Authorization: Bearer cur_live_xxxxx

Body

application/json

legalName

string

required

Legal name of the business to verify

Example:

"Shopify Inc."

jurisdiction

string

required

Canadian jurisdiction code (AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT, FED) or full name (e.g. "Ontario", "British Columbia", "Federal")

Example:

"ON"

registrationNumber

string

required

Business registration number assigned by the provincial or federal registry

Example:

"2033076"

address

object

Address fields to verify against the registry. All fields are optional — only provided fields are compared.

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people

object[]

People to verify against registry directors/officers. Disabled by default — set matching.people.enabled: true to activate.

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externalId

string

Your internal ID for this business (e.g. a CRM record ID or database UUID). Stored on the business entity so you can look up verifications by your own identifiers. Subsequent verifications of the same business will update this value.

Example:

"acct_1Nxxx"

matching

object

Per-request threshold overrides. All thresholds default to 1.0 (exact match). Set lower values to allow fuzzy matching.

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Response

Verification completed (check status field — may be verified or not_verified)