Quickstart

1. Sign up

Visit the signup page and create your account. Anchord will create your tenant, admin user, assign the Free plan, and generate your first API key.

Save your API key immediately. It is hashed and can never be retrieved again. You can create additional keys later in Settings → API Keys.

2. Verify API access

curl -s https://api.anchord.ai/api/ping \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your-key>"

Expected: {"status":"ok","tenant_id":"...","request_id":"..."}

3. Register sources (optional)

Built-in sources for hubspot and stripe are created automatically. Register custom sources for other systems:

curl -s -X POST https://api.anchord.ai/api/v1/sources \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"key": "salesforce", "display_name": "Salesforce CRM"}'

4. Ingest records

curl -s -X POST https://api.anchord.ai/api/v1/ingest/batch \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "records": [{
      "system": "salesforce",
      "object_type": "company",
      "object_id": "001abc",
      "payload": {"name": "Acme Corp", "domain": "acme.com"}
    }]
  }'

Batch supports up to 100 records per call.

5. Resolve identities

Match records to canonical AnchorID entities:

curl -s -X POST https://api.anchord.ai/api/v1/resolve/company \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "domain": "acme.com",
    "name": "Acme Corp"
  }'

Also available: /api/v1/resolve/person, and batch variants :batch for both.

6. Guard / write evaluation

Before writing to an external system, evaluate the write:

curl -s -X POST https://api.anchord.ai/api/v1/guard/write \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "entity_id": "<anchor-id>"
  }'

Returns allowed or blocked with block codes when blocked. Batch variant at /api/v1/guard/write:batch.

7. Connect integrations

For Salesforce, HubSpot, and Stripe, log in to the Anchord Console, navigate to Integrations, and click Connect. Complete the OAuth flow and use Sync now to pull data.

Salesforce quickstart: Choose your environment (Production, Sandbox, or Custom domain), authorize with read-only scopes, then click Sync now. Anchord pulls Accounts and Contacts via SOQL, detects Person Accounts automatically, and runs nightly syncs at 02:30 UTC.

Alternatively, push Salesforce data directly via the ingest API without needing OAuth — see the Integrations Guide.

8. Merge duplicates

# Dry run — preview without writing
curl -s -X POST https://api.anchord.ai/api/v1/entities/<id_a>/merge \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"other_entity_id": "<id_b>", "reason": "duplicate", "dry_run": true}'

You can also review and merge from the Duplicates Queue in the console.