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Truework

Truework operates a unified income and employment verification platform for mortgage lenders, credit unions, and fintechs. The Truework API orchestrates six verification methods — Instant Data, Payroll Credentials, Bank Credentials, Tax Credentials, Smart Outreach, and Document Upload — behind a single REST surface (api.truework.com), asynchronous webhooks, and the Truework.js / Truework Direct widget for consumer-permissioned verifications. The platform claims coverage of more than 97% of U.S. workers and 75% completion rates versus a ~48% industry average. Core resources are Orders, Verification Requests, Reports, and Order Events, with beta surfaces for Qualification Checks and Tenant Properties.

agent native

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Truework the way a machine reads it — 36 machine-readable artifacts across 5 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 — Truework scores 70.4/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 62/100 (agent native). 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 70.4/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 17.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 9.9 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 62/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Truework

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Truework. 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 5

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.

Truework.js (Truework Direct)

Truework.js is the client-side JavaScript library that powers Truework Direct, the borrower-driven (consumer-permissioned) verification flow. The host page loads `https://js.tru...

Truework subpackage_orders API

The subpackage_orders API from Truework — 8 operation(s) for subpackage_orders.

Truework subpackage_qualificationChecks API

The subpackage_qualificationChecks API from Truework — 3 operation(s) for subpackage_qualificationchecks.

Truework subpackage_reports API

The subpackage_reports API from Truework — 1 operation(s) for subpackage_reports.

Truework subpackage_tenantProperties API

The subpackage_tenantProperties API from Truework — 2 operation(s) for subpackage_tenantproperties.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

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.

Truework Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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 18

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.

Six verification methods orchestrated automatically — Instant Data, Payroll Credentials, Bank Credentials, Tax Credentials, Smart Outreach, Document Upload
Coverage of over 97% of U.S. workers from a single platform
Truework Direct (Truework.js) borrower-driven verification widget loaded from https://js.truework.com/v1
Dated API versioning (current 2023-10-30) with per-key version pinning via the Accept header
Bearer-token API keys, prefixed tw_sk_ (production) and tw_sk_test_ (sandbox)
Publishable keys (tw_pk_, tw_pk_test_) for client-side Truework.js
Sandbox environment at https://api.truework-sandbox.com with deterministic test SSN fixtures
Webhook delivery with 48-hour retry and X-Truework-Token header authentication
Up to 10 webhook destinations per account
10 req/s per source IP and 10 req/s per account rate envelope, with 429 on overage
Order lifecycle states pending-approval, processing, action-required, completed, canceled, invalid
Asynchronous target-employer orders plus synchronous employer-search orders
Reverification endpoint POST /orders/reverification for refreshing prior reports
Beta Qualification Checks for low-latency knockout decisioning on verified income/employment
Beta Tenant Properties for tenant-scoped verification configuration
GSE-ready unified reporting (Day 1 Certainty, AIM, GUS) for mortgage lenders
LOS integrations (Encompass, Empower) and POS integrations (Blend, nCino)
Public OpenAPI specs published from truework.docs.buildwithfern.com

Scroll within the panel for all 18 ·

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.

Truework Context

0 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

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.

Truework API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Truework Order

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Truework Verification Report

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

Truework Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Truework Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Truework Agentic Access

16 operations · 8 acting

16 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Truework — 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.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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