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TruthFactor is an identity-corroboration API. You submit what you know about a person — a phone number, a first and last name, an email, a professional profile URL — choose which signals you want run, and get back, per person, each signal as a {trusted, confidence} verdict plus an overall score, risk band, and a machine-readable reason. The API is bulk and asynchronous: submit an array of inputs, get a request_id immediately, then read results by polling or receive them on an optional signed webhook.

Quickstart

Submit your first batch and poll for the result in two calls.

Authentication

Bearer keys, how they’re minted, and what a 401 means.

Reading a verdict

Why null is first-class and must never be read as false.

API reference

The endpoints, schemas, and an interactive playground from the OpenAPI spec.

The shape of an integration

1

Get a key

An admin of an active account mints an API key from the dashboard. The tf_live_… secret is shown once. See Authentication.
2

Submit a batch

POST /v1/signals with your inputs and the signals you want. You get a request_id and a 202 straight away.
3

Collect results

Poll GET /v1/signals/{request_id}, or set a webhook_url and receive the completed, signed payload. Results stay fetchable either way.

What you get back

Each person comes back with a per-signal verdict map and an explainable roll-up:
  • signals — each selected signal as {trusted, confidence}. See The verdict model.
  • score (0–100) and band (clear · caution · high_risk) — a transparent, reproducible roll-up over the returned signals. See Scoring and banding.
  • reason — the dominant factor: an override code, or the lowest-scoring signal.
The machine-readable companion to these docs is the OpenAPI 3.1 document at GET /api/v1/openapi.json, generated from the same signal catalogue and contracts as the API itself, so the spec and the API cannot drift. The API reference is rendered directly from it.