> ## 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.

# Introduction

> Intelligence at the Speed of Business. LENS — TIC's AI-powered platform for real-time credit, compliance, and risk decisions.

**Intelligence at the Speed of Business.** TIC's **LENS** platform delivers real-time intelligence across credit, compliance, and risk — so your teams can make smarter, faster decisions without waiting for stale reports.

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  **LENS** is the TIC intelligence platform. The **LENS API** (v2) gives you programmatic access. A **v1 API** remains available for existing integrations.
</Tip>

TIC is a **licensed credit reference agency** — we go beyond the traditional credit bureau model by combining authoritative public-source data, AI anomaly detection, and intelligent document processing into a single live platform.

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## What you can do with LENS

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  <Card title="Knowledge graphs" icon="diagram-project" href="/technology/graph-visualization">
    Traverse ownership, representation, and relationship networks across companies, persons, properties, and vehicles.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Watchlists & real-time monitoring" icon="bell" href="/webhooks">
    Track entities you care about and receive webhooks, emails, or SMS the moment something changes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="AI document intelligence" icon="file-magnifying-glass" href="/technology/ai-intelligent-document-processing">
    Turn unstructured PDFs and scans into structured data with our IDP engine — the same tech powering our own datasets.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Sentinel forensics" icon="shield-halved" href="/api-lens/sentinel/submit-a-file-for-forensic-analysis">
    Detect document and image fraud with AI-driven forensic analysis — upload a file, get a full report.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Beneficial ownership" icon="user-magnifying-glass" href="/api-lens/companies/get-beneficial-owners-for-a-company">
    Resolve UBOs, verify KYC chains, and spot hidden control structures across jurisdictions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Anomaly detection" icon="wave-pulse" href="/technology/ai-anomaly-detection">
    Surface unusual patterns in financials, filings, and activity before they become incidents.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Built for

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  <Card title="Finance" icon="building-columns" />

  <Card title="Insurance" icon="umbrella" />

  <Card title="Compliance & AML" icon="scale-balanced" />

  <Card title="Legal" icon="gavel" />
</CardGroup>

## Choose your API

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  <Card title="LENS API (recommended)" icon="sparkles" href="/api-lens/introduction">
    **The new standard.** Modern, fully-annotated endpoints with typed schemas, watchlists, Sentinel forensics, and unified search. OpenAPI 3.1. Start here for new integrations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Legacy API (v1)" icon="server" href="/api-core/introduction">
    **Stable and supported.** The original TIC API — still fully supported for existing integrations. Broad dataset coverage across companies, persons, properties, and vehicles.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Get started

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  <Card title="Authenticate" icon="key" href="/authentication">
    API-key and JWT flows. Works for both APIs.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Search" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/search">
    Lightning-fast Typesense-backed search across companies, persons, properties, vehicles.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Generate a client" icon="code" href="/generate-client">
    Generate typed SDKs for 60+ languages from our OpenAPI specs.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Datasets

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  <Card title="Core datasets" icon="globe" href="/datasets/companies">
    Companies, persons, addresses, properties, and vehicles — the foundation of the platform.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Industry datasets" icon="industry" href="/api-industry/introduction">
    European Commission, Finansinspektionen, ICA, and other industry-specific sources.
  </Card>
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## About TIC

The Intelligence Company AB (publ) is a licensed credit reference agency. We aggregate authoritative public and commercial data, apply credit scoring and continuous credit assessment, and turn it into actionable intelligence — powered by AI anomaly detection and our [IDP engine](/technology/ai-intelligent-document-processing).