> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tic.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Legacy API (v1)

> TIC's legacy v1 API — still fully supported for existing integrations. For new integrations, use the LENS API (v2).

Our core datasets constitutes our core as a credit reference agency. We gather and process information
continuously every second. Industry datasets are combined with our core datasets to enrich data and offer
much better tools for credit scoring, vendor and customer evaluation, prospecting and statistical data analysis.

# Search

TIC provides an easy to use search API based on [Typesense](https://typesense.org) lightning-fast search database.

Check out examples and [documentation here](/api-core/search).

## Accounts

<Note>
  In the [LENS API (v2)](/api-lens/introduction), "accounts" have been renamed to **watchlists** and their scope expanded to include addresses, properties, and vehicles in addition to companies and persons. The v1 term "account" and the v2 term "watchlist" refer to the same concept.
</Note>

An account groups together companies and persons — technically it's a list. Each account can contain one or more users with access.

Accounts are useful for:

* Grouping vendors
* Grouping customers
* Tracking arbitrary lists of companies and persons

Each account references one or more companies and/or persons, and can have a webhook attached to post event changes for those members.

## Companies

Each company contains a large number of current and historic records. Each stored in different entities and
urls. When you search you will get an aggregate of certain records that are used for search purposes. but
to get access to all historic records you need to access each endpoint.

Changes in for example in a company purpose is recorded under
[https://api.tic.io/datasets/companies/\{companyId}/purpose](https://api.tic.io/datasets/companies/\{companyId}/purpose) with details when it was changed.