Hackford

Hackford offers a B2B data and intelligence platform that aggregates regulatory, permission and personnel information on financial services firms in the United Kingdom, United States, Luxembourg and the European Union. The service provides searchable firm identities, classifications, change alerts and API access for teams that sell to, consult for, or monitor regulated financial institutions.

Hackford publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Complaints API, Enforcement API, Exports API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Data, Intelligence, Financial Services, Regulatory, and B2B.

The Hackford catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Hackford’s developer surface includes pricing, documentation, authentication, and 18 more developer resources.

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40.0/100 developing Agent 43/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Data Intelligence Financial Services Regulatory B2B Compliance

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 40.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 6.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 43/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Hackford Complaints API

The Complaints API from Hackford — 1 operation(s) for complaints.

Hackford Enforcement API

The Enforcement API from Hackford — 1 operation(s) for enforcement.

Hackford Exports API

The Exports API from Hackford — 2 operation(s) for exports.

Hackford Firm types API

The Firm types API from Hackford — 1 operation(s) for firm types.

Hackford Firms API

The Firms API from Hackford — 5 operation(s) for firms.

Hackford People API

The People API from Hackford — 1 operation(s) for people.

Hackford Public API

The Public API API from Hackford — 1 operation(s) for public api.

Hackford Relationships API

The Relationships API from Hackford — 2 operation(s) for relationships.

Hackford Saved searches API

The Saved searches API from Hackford — 4 operation(s) for saved searches.

Hackford Watchlists API

The Watchlists API from Hackford — 6 operation(s) for watchlists.

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Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

hackforddata-com-create-run-watchlist

AGENT SKILL

hackforddata-com-resolve-and-retrieve-firm

AGENT SKILL

Hackford API pricing

Prices published by Hackford.

Plan	Price
Individual	£2,400 + VAT per year for one named user
Team	£4,800 + VAT per year

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Hackford Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Hackforddata Com Context

64 classes · 170 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Hackford API Rules

48 rules · 40 error-severity 6 warn-severity 2 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

FirmDetail

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FirmExportResponse

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FirmFosDecisionsResponse

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FirmPermissionsResponse

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PublicApiSavedSearch

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PublicApiWatchlist

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Hackford Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Hackford Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Hackford Agentic Access

30 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Newsroom

Newsroom

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hackforddata-com
name: Hackford
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://hackforddata.com/hackford_logo.png
description: Hackford offers a B2B data and intelligence platform that aggregates regulatory, permission and personnel information
  on financial services firms in the United Kingdom, United States, Luxembourg and the European Union. The service provides
  searchable firm identities, classifications, change alerts and API access for teams that sell to, consult for, or monitor
  regulated financial institutions.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/hackforddata-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-11 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-10'
modified: '2026-11-10'
tags:
- Data
- Intelligence
- Financial Services
- Regulatory
- B2B
- Compliance
tags_raw:
- Data
- Intelligence
- Financial Services
- Regulatory
- B2B
- API
- Compliance
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/hackforddata-com-agentic-access.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hackforddata-com-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/hackforddata-com-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/hackforddata-com-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/hackforddata-com-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/hackforddata-com-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/hackforddata-com-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/hackforddata-com-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hackforddata-com-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/hackforddata-com-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/hackforddata-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/hackforddata-com-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://hackforddata.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hackforddata.com/privacy
- type: Pricing
  url: https://hackforddata.com/pricing
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://hackforddata.com/press
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.hackforddata.com/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/hackforddata-com-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hackforddata-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://hackforddata.com/
apis:
- aid: hackforddata-com:hackforddata-com-complaints-api
  name: Hackford Complaints API
  description: The Complaints API from Hackford — 1 operation(s) for complaints.
  humanURL: https://docs.hackforddata.com
  baseURL: https://api.hackforddata.com/v1
  tags:
  - Complaints
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackforddata-com-complaints-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackforddata-com-firm-fos-decisions-response-schema.json
- aid: hackforddata-com:hackforddata-com-enforcement-api
  name: Hackford Enforcement API
  description: The Enforcement API from Hackford — 1 operation(s) for enforcement.
  humanURL: https://docs.hackforddata.com
  baseURL: https://api.hackforddata.com/v1
  tags:
  - Enforcement
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackforddata-com-enforcement-api-openapi.yml
- aid: hackforddata-com:hackforddata-com-exports-api
  name: Hackford Exports API
  description: The Exports API from Hackford — 2 operation(s) for exports.
  humanURL: https://docs.hackforddata.com
  baseURL: https://api.hackforddata.com/v1
  tags:
  - Export
  tags_raw:
  - Exports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackforddata-com-exports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackforddata-com-firm-export-response-schema.json
- aid: hackforddata-com:hackforddata-com-firm-types-api
  name: Hackford Firm types API
  description: The Firm types API from Hackford — 1 operation(s) for firm types.
  humanURL: https://docs.hackforddata.com
  baseURL: https://api.hackforddata.com/v1
  tags:
  - Firm types
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackforddata-com-firm-types-api-openapi.yml
- aid: hackforddata-com:hackforddata-com-firms-api
  name: Hackford Firms API
  description: The Firms API from Hackford — 5 operation(s) for firms.
  humanURL: https://docs.hackforddata.com
  baseURL: https://api.hackforddata.com/v1
  tags:
  - Firms
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackforddata-com-firms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackforddata-com-firm-permissions-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackforddata-com-firm-detail-schema.json
- aid: hackforddata-com:hackforddata-com-people-api
  name: Hackford People API
  description: The People API from Hackford — 1 operation(s) for people.
  humanURL: https://docs.hackforddata.com
  baseURL: https://api.hackforddata.com/v1
  tags:
  - People
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackforddata-com-people-api-openapi.yml
- aid: hackforddata-com:hackforddata-com-public-api-api
  name: Hackford Public API
  description: The Public API API from Hackford — 1 operation(s) for public api.
  humanURL: https://docs.hackforddata.com
  baseURL: https://api.hackforddata.com/v1
  tags:
  - Public APIs
  tags_raw:
  - Public API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackforddata-com-public-api-api-openapi.yml
- aid: hackforddata-com:hackforddata-com-relationships-api
  name: Hackford Relationships API
  description: The Relationships API from Hackford — 2 operation(s) for relationships.
  humanURL: https://docs.hackforddata.com
  baseURL: https://api.hackforddata.com/v1
  tags:
  - Relationships
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackforddata-com-relationships-api-openapi.yml
- aid: hackforddata-com:hackforddata-com-saved-searches-api
  name: Hackford Saved searches API
  description: The Saved searches API from Hackford — 4 operation(s) for saved searches.
  humanURL: https://docs.hackforddata.com
  baseURL: https://api.hackforddata.com/v1
  tags:
  - Saved Searches
  tags_raw:
  - Saved searches
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackforddata-com-saved-searches-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackforddata-com-public-api-saved-search-schema.json
- aid: hackforddata-com:hackforddata-com-watchlists-api
  name: Hackford Watchlists API
  description: The Watchlists API from Hackford — 6 operation(s) for watchlists.
  humanURL: https://docs.hackforddata.com
  baseURL: https://api.hackforddata.com/v1
  tags:
  - Watchlist
  tags_raw:
  - Watchlists
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hackforddata-com-watchlists-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hackforddata-com-public-api-watchlist-schema.json
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-11'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Hackford API — frequently asked questions

Does Hackford have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from Hackford, including Hackford Complaints API, Hackford Enforcement API and Hackford Exports API, and 7 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Hackford API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 10 OpenAPI specifications for Hackford, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Hackford API?

Hackford documents its authentication (apiKey/http · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Hackford Authentication.

How much does the Hackford API cost?

Hackford publishes its prices; its Individual plan is £2,400 + VAT per year for one named user as of 2026-11-11. APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Hackford, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Hackford API ready for AI agents?

Hackford has a Kin Score of 40.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 43.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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