Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet is a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, anchored by the D-U-N-S Number — a unique nine-digit identifier assigned to more than 500 million businesses worldwide. Founded in 1841 as The Mercantile Agency in New York City and now headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, D&B operates the D&B Data Cloud, a master commercial database used by enterprises and governments for credit, risk, supply, master data, sales, marketing, compliance, and third-party due diligence. Its primary developer surface is D&B Direct+, a RESTful API platform that lets customers match, enrich, monitor, and stream company data programmatically using OAuth 2.0 access tokens. D&B was taken private by Clearlake Capital in August 2025 for approximately $7.7 billion (including debt).
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API Evangelist profiles Dun & Bradstreet the way a machine reads it — 80 machine-readable artifacts across 15 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Dun & Bradstreet scores 63.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile Dun & Bradstreet
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Dun & Bradstreet. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 15
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
D&B Direct+ Identity Resolution API
The Identity Resolution surface of D&B Direct+ matches an input business record — name, address, phone, email, registration number — to a single authoritative D-U-N-S Number. Th...
D&B Direct+ Search API
The Search surface of D&B Direct+ lets applications find businesses, principals, and related entities using flexible criteria such as company name, address, registration number,...
D&B Direct+ Enrich (Data Blocks) API
The Enrich surface returns standardized "data blocks" for a given D-U-N-S Number. Blocks group attributes by domain — Company Information, Principals & Contacts, Hierarchy & Con...
D&B Direct+ Multi-Process API
Multi-Process combines Identity Resolution and Enrich into a single request: the caller submits a candidate input record plus a set of desired data blocks, D&B resolves the inpu...
D&B Direct+ Data File (Batch) API
The Data File (Batch) surface lets customers submit large input files and receive matched, enriched output files asynchronously. The workflow is upload → process → poll status →...
D&B Direct+ Monitoring API
The Monitoring surface lets customers register a portfolio of D-U-N-S Numbers and subscribe to change events. When D&B detects an update to a monitored attribute — address, owne...
D&B Direct+ Research API
The Research surface lets customers retrieve historical responses Direct+ has previously returned, supporting audit, dispute, and reconciliation use cases where the application ...
Dun & Bradstreet Authentication API
OAuth 2.0 token issuance for Direct+.
Dun & Bradstreet Data File API
Asynchronous batch file submission, status, and download.
Dun & Bradstreet Enrich API
Retrieve Data Blocks for a known D-U-N-S Number.
Dun & Bradstreet Identity Resolution API
Match an input record to a D-U-N-S Number.
Dun & Bradstreet Monitoring API
Subscribe to and consume change notifications on a portfolio.
Dun & Bradstreet Multi-Process API
Combined match plus enrich in a single call.
Dun & Bradstreet Research API
Retrieve historical responses for audit and reconciliation.
Dun & Bradstreet Search API
Find companies, principals, and related entities.
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Postman Collections 1
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
D&B Direct+ API
POSTMANArazzo Workflows 10
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
D&B Authenticate And Match Company
Obtain a Direct+ token, resolve a candidate record to a D-U-N-S Number, and pull its company information block.
ARAZZOD&B Batch Match And Enrich File
Submit a batch input file, poll until processing completes, then download the matched and enriched results.
ARAZZOD&B Cleanse Match And Enrich
Resolve a candidate to a D-U-N-S Number and branch to enrichment only when an acceptable match is found.
ARAZZOD&B Contact Search And Enrich
Find a principal or contact, then enrich the organization they are associated with.
ARAZZOD&B Criteria Search And Get Company
Browse companies by free-form criteria, then enrich the first candidate's Data Blocks.
ARAZZOD&B Manage Portfolio Membership
Match a candidate, remove its D-U-N-S Number from a monitoring registration, and confirm remaining notifications.
ARAZZOD&B Match And Audit History
Resolve a candidate to a D-U-N-S Number, then retrieve a historical Direct+ response for audit and reconciliation.
ARAZZOD&B Match And Monitor Company
Resolve a candidate to a D-U-N-S Number, create a monitoring registration, and add the D-U-N-S Number to its portfolio.
ARAZZOD&B Match Plus Enrich
Obtain a token, then resolve and enrich a candidate record in a single multiProcess call.
ARAZZOD&B Register And Pull Notifications
Create a monitoring registration, enroll a portfolio of D-U-N-S Numbers, and pull pending change notifications.
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Dun And Bradstreet Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
D-U-N-S Number Identity
Every business in the D&B Data Cloud carries a unique nine-digit D-U-N-S Number that acts as a persistent, globally recognized enterprise identifier.
Data Cloud Coverage
More than 500 million company records spanning legal entities, branches, subsidiaries, contacts, and beneficial owners across virtually every country.
Data Blocks
Versioned, domain-grouped attribute bundles (Company, Financials, Hierarchy, Risk, Compliance, ESG, Beneficial Ownership) that callers opt into per request.
Match + Enrich in One Call
Multi-Process combines Identity Resolution and Enrich, eliminating a round-trip for onboarding and CRM-augment workflows.
Synchronous + Batch + Streaming
Direct+ offers REST synchronous calls, Data File asynchronous batch processing, and Monitoring change-notification streams over the same data substrate.
Hierarchy and Linkage
Corporate hierarchies — parent, headquarters, ultimate domestic parent, ultimate global parent, branches — are exposed as first-class relationships rather than denormalized fields.
Beneficial Ownership and Compliance
Enrich includes UBO, sanctions, watchlist, and PEP screening data to support KYB, AML, and third-party risk management programs.
OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials
Authentication is standard OAuth 2.0 client-credentials grant; bearer tokens are scoped per Direct+ subscription.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Dun And Bradstreet Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Dun & Bradstreet API Rules
SPECTRALDun & Bradstreet API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 3
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
DnB Direct+ Match Candidate
JSON SCHEMADnB Direct+ Monitoring Notification
JSON SCHEMADnB Direct+ Organization
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Dnb Direct Plus Organization Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 14
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 7
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Customer Onboarding (KYB)
Resolve a prospective customer's name and address to a D-U-N-S Number, then enrich with financial, ownership, and compliance data before extending credit or signing a contract.
Supplier Master Data Management
Use Multi-Process and Monitoring to keep an internal supplier master synchronized with D&B's authoritative company records, automatically flagging mergers, dissolutions, address...
Third-Party Risk Management
Combine Enrich blocks for compliance, beneficial ownership, ESG, and financial stress to score third parties continuously against a policy.
Credit Decisioning
Retrieve PAYDEX scores, financial-strength indicators, and trade payment history to automate credit limit decisions in lending and B2B trade.
Sales and Marketing Intelligence
Search and Enrich power lead scoring, total-addressable-market modeling, and account-based marketing by attaching firmographic data to CRM records.
Compliance and Sanctions Screening
Use compliance and beneficial-ownership blocks to satisfy AML, KYB, and sanctions-screening obligations.
Government and Grants Eligibility
The D-U-N-S Number remains widely used as a registration identifier for procurement, grants, and supplier qualification programs.
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Integrations 7
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Salesforce
D&B Hoovers and D&B Direct+ data flow into Salesforce CRM via D&B's managed packages and AppExchange listings.
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Direct+ enrichment plugs into Dynamics 365 Sales and Customer Insights to augment accounts and contacts.
SAP
D&B's master-data integrations enrich SAP S/4HANA and SAP Ariba supplier records with D-U-N-S Numbers and Data Blocks.
Oracle
Direct+ data feeds Oracle ERP, EPM, and Procurement Cloud master data pipelines.
Snowflake Marketplace
D&B publishes data products on the Snowflake Marketplace so customers can query Data Cloud attributes directly in their warehouse.
Adobe Real-Time CDP
D&B firmographics enrich Adobe Real-Time CDP profiles for B2B personalization.
HubSpot
Connectors push D&B Hoovers / Direct+ company data into HubSpot CRM properties.
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Solutions 5
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Finance & Credit
Credit risk, accounts-receivable, trade payment, and collections solutions powered by Direct+ financial and risk blocks.
Sales & Marketing
D&B Hoovers, Audience Targeting, and Connect for Salesforce build on Direct+ firmographics and contacts.
Third-Party Risk & Compliance
D&B Risk Analytics, Beneficial Ownership, and Compliance Center combine enrichment and monitoring for vendor risk programs.
Master Data
D&B Optimizer and master-data services use Direct+ to clean, deduplicate, and continuously synchronize enterprise customer and supplier records.
Supply
Supplier intelligence, ESG, diversity, and supply-chain risk analytics combine Direct+ data blocks with D&B portfolio monitoring.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Dun & Bradstreet — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 13
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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