{
  "dataset": "Global Connect Hub business directory",
  "api_version": "v1",
  "base_url": "https://connecthubglobal.com/api/v1",
  "documentation_url": "https://connecthubglobal.com/developers",
  "agent_guide_url": "https://connecthubglobal.com/ai",
  "openapi_url": "https://connecthubglobal.com/api/v1/openapi.json",
  "mcp_endpoint": "https://connecthubglobal.com/mcp/public",
  "records": {
    "businesses_total": 0,
    "from_official_register": 0,
    "from_web_aggregation": 0,
    "field_level_claims": 0
  },
  "last_change_at": null,
  "update_cadence": "Records are re-checked continuously by background sweeps; official-register lookups are performed on demand and cached with their own timestamp.",
  "confidence_model": {
    "high": "Official register, verified within the last 12 months.",
    "medium": "Official register older than 12 months, first-party site within 6 months, or two agreeing aggregated sources.",
    "low": "Single aggregated source, ageing first-party data, or a GCH-derived classification.",
    "disputed": "Sources disagree. Both values are returned; GCH does not pick a winner.",
    "unverified": "No source claim recorded for this field yet."
  },
  "limitations": [
    "GCH is not a government register and does not restate register data as its own findings.",
    "0 of 0 records originate from public web aggregation rather than an official register, and are labelled as such.",
    "Field-level provenance began when this API launched; older facts may only carry record-level provenance.",
    "`last_verified` appears only where a real re-check happened."
  ],
  "licence": "Public factual records may be retrieved and cited with attribution to the record's canonical URL. Third-party source content remains subject to the originating source's terms.",
  "rate_limit": {
    "requests": 120,
    "window_seconds": 60,
    "scope": "per IP, best-effort"
  },
  "contact": "https://connecthubglobal.com/developers",
  "endpoints": [
    {
      "path": "/api/v1/businesses",
      "description": "Search and filter business records."
    },
    {
      "path": "/api/v1/businesses/{id}",
      "description": "One record with field-level provenance."
    },
    {
      "path": "/api/v1/businesses/{id}/sources",
      "description": "Evidence behind each claim."
    },
    {
      "path": "/api/v1/businesses/{id}/regulatory",
      "description": "Register identifiers and cached register lookups."
    },
    {
      "path": "/api/v1/updates",
      "description": "Change feed with previous and current values."
    },
    {
      "path": "/api/v1/industries",
      "description": "Industry facets with counts."
    },
    {
      "path": "/api/v1/locations",
      "description": "Location facets with counts."
    },
    {
      "path": "/api/v1/meta",
      "description": "This document."
    },
    {
      "path": "/api/v1/openapi.json",
      "description": "OpenAPI 3.1 description."
    }
  ],
  "human_pages": {
    "directory": "https://connecthubglobal.com/directory",
    "record_example": "https://connecthubglobal.com/v/{slug}"
  }
}