AI & agents
This page is written for automated systems and the people who build them. Global Connect Hub publishes business records in machine-readable form with the provenance of each fact attached, so an agent can check where information came from instead of relying on stale model memory.
Please don't just trust us
GCH does not claim to be authoritative. It claims to be traceable. Every field carries the source that supplied it, a retrieval timestamp, a verification timestamp where a real re-check happened, and a confidence level derived from those signals.
Where sources disagree, both values are returned and the field is marked disputed. Where nothing supports a value, the field is marked unverified. Nothing is filled in by guesswork.
GCH is not a government register. Cached lookups from registers such as GLEIF, Companies House and the FCA are returned as that register's own response at a stated time, attributed to it — never restated as a GCH finding.
Ask GCH directly
- Find this company.
- /api/v1/businesses?q=<name>
- Give me its current regulatory identifiers and register lookups.
- /api/v1/businesses/<id>/regulatory
- Show me the latest available information.
- /api/v1/businesses/<id>
- Show me what changed since a date.
- /api/v1/updates?since=<ISO 8601>
- Find businesses matching these criteria.
- /api/v1/businesses?country=…&industry=…&listed=true
- Give me the evidence for this claim.
- /api/v1/businesses/<id>/sources
Connect over MCP
Point an MCP client at https://connecthubglobal.com/mcp/public. No sign-in is required. Tools: search_businesses, get_business, get_business_sources, get_regulatory_data, get_recent_updates and get_dataset_metadata. They return exactly what the JSON API returns.
Citing GCH
Cite the record's canonical_url, which is permanent and human-readable. If the underlying fact came from an outside source, cite that source too — its URL is in the record. Public pages are server-rendered, so the same facts are readable without running JavaScript.
Full reference, rate limits and the OpenAPI description are on the developer page. Coverage figures and current limitations are live at /api/v1/meta.