# The Company Check AI and MCP Usage Guide

The Company Check provides public preview pages for company, brand, director, pricing, and search experiences. AI agents, MCP clients, search crawlers, and research tools may use the public pages to understand publicly visible information and navigate the site.

Base URL: https://www.thecompanycheck.com
AI manifest: https://www.thecompanycheck.com/ai-manifest.json

## Important Routes

- Company profile: /company/{company-name}/{cin}
- Brand profile: /company/b/{brand-name}/{brand-id}
- Director profile: /people-profile/{director-name}/{din}
- Director timeline: /people-profile/{director-name}/directorship-timeline/{din}
- Director shareholding/associated-company shares: /people-profile/{director-name}/associated-company-shares/{din}
- Pricing: /pricing
- Search: /textsearch?q={query}

## Page Context

Public pages expose a JSON script block with id `tcc-ai-page-context`. It identifies the page type, entity type, entity id, route pattern, canonical URL, access state, data sources, and available sections.

Agents should read that context before extracting page content. The context is descriptive and does not grant access to locked or paid data.

## Access Rules

- Use only public, visible content unless you have an authorized account and user permission.
- Do not attempt to bypass locks, paywalls, login, checkout, Cloudflare, rate limits, or API access controls.
- Do not scrape at high rates or parallelize requests aggressively.
- Prefer canonical URLs.
- Respect robots directives and cache responsibly.
- Payment, login, report, and user-account flows must not be automated without explicit user authorization.

## Good Crawlers and AI Agents

Known beneficial crawlers and AI agents should use stable identification, reasonable request rates, and public routes. The site may challenge, throttle, or block anonymous automation, abusive IPs, and non-human traffic that harms normal users.

## Contact

For approved data access, commercial integrations, or crawler allowlisting, contact support@thecompanycheck.com.