DDockaseAPI

Dockase Developer API · v1

The legal data bank. Build your AI on it.

Is this company real? What does the law actually say — and can you prove it? One API for the answers you can't afford to get wrong: live CAC, TIN and SCUML checks with one-call KYB decisions, 13,000+ Nigerian judgments with citations that actually verify, and stores that turn your own documents into answers. Bank the data. Build on it.

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Quickstart — first call in under a minute

curl
curl https://api.dockase.com/v1/judgments/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer dk_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "locus standi in election petitions",
    "limit": 5
  }'

Every response is wrapped in { data, meta } with a request ID.

Reference

Three suites, one API key. Specialized models next.

Compliance & KYB

Registry-verified onboarding and merchant checks for fintechs.

Merchant onboardingSeller vettingLender underwritingAgent networksProcurementB2B account opening
POSTNigeria
/v1/kyb/assess

KYB assessment

One call, one decision: CAC + TIN + SCUML checked against the merchant's claims — PASS, REVIEW, or FAIL with reason codes. Built for fintech onboarding.

POSTNigeria
/v1/verify/company

Verify a company

Live CAC registry check by RC number — status, directors, share capital. Company-name search included.

POSTNigeria
/v1/verify/tin

Verify a TIN

Tax Identification Number verification against the tax registry — auto-routes RC/BN/IT numbers.

POSTNigeria
/v1/verify/scuml

Verify SCUML

SCUML certification status for reporting entities — the AML check your compliance team asks for.

Knowledge stores

Your documents, embedded and queryable — S3-shaped, RAG-ready.

Support chatbotsContract Q&AUnderwriting reviewPolicy assistantsData-room Q&AOnboarding bases
POSTGlobal
/v1/stores

Create a store

An isolated knowledge bucket for your account. Everything you put in is OCR'd, chunked, and embedded automatically.

POSTGlobal
/v1/stores/{id}/documents

Upload documents

PDFs and scans in, embedded passages out — with per-document ingestion status you can poll.

POSTGlobal
/v1/stores/{id}/query

Query a store

Semantic search scoped to one store: cited passages with document, page, and section anchors.

Legal data

The Nigerian case-law corpus, statutes, and legal embeddings.

Research copilotsLitigation riskHallucination guardsPrecedent alertsLegal analyticsRAG pipelines
POSTNigeria
/v1/judgments/search

Search judgments

Semantic search over 13,000+ Nigerian judgments, with court-level and year filters.

GETNigeria
/v1/judgments/{id}

Get a judgment

Citation, court, ratio, summary — Pro plans and above get the full judgment text.

GETNigeria
/v1/judgments/{id}/citations

Citation graph

Everything a case cites and everything that cites it — followed, considered, distinguished, overruled.

POSTNigeria
/v1/citations/verify

Verify a citation

Check a citation or case name against the real record. Built to catch hallucinated authorities.

GETNigeria
/v1/statutes

Statutes

Nigerian statutes in clean markdown, filterable by category and jurisdiction.

POSTGlobal
/v1/embeddings

Legal embeddings

amicus-embed-ng-v1: a legal-domain embedding model anyone can build on, from anywhere. OpenAI-compatible.

SOONComing soon
/v1/models/*

Specialized contract models

Small, purpose-trained models for contract review, clause extraction, and drafting. Talk to us about early access.

Start on the free tier — 200 calls a month, no card required. See pricing.