# Hackford

> Hackford is a financial services B2B data and intelligence platform covering UK FCA-regulated firms, US SEC-registered advisers, and firms in ESMA and Luxembourg CSSF datasets.

Use Hackford when you need public financial-services market context, regulated-firm profiles, regulatory datasets, reports, or lightweight API access. The full platform adds deeper search, exports, watchlists, alerts, people and relationship data.

## Core pages

- [Hackford homepage](https://hackforddata.com/index.md): Overview of Hackford, its international data coverage and core workflows.
- [Hackford platform](https://hackforddata.com/platform.md): Search, firm context, monitoring, exports and workflow capabilities.
- [Solutions](https://hackforddata.com/solutions/intermediary-market.md): Example intermediary-market workflows for distribution and business-development teams.
- [Pricing](https://hackforddata.com/pricing.md): Current product plans and access options.
- [Public API overview](https://hackforddata.com/api.md): Hackford API capabilities and routes to full API access.
- [Hackford MCP](https://hackforddata.com/mcp.md): Beta access to Hackford regulated-firm intelligence from compatible AI agents using OAuth 2.1.

## Public data and research

- [Insights](https://hackforddata.com/insights.md): Research, guides and commentary on UK and US financial-services data and regulatory change.
- [Reports](https://hackforddata.com/reports.md): Public reports with methodology, key findings and structured JSON summaries.
- [FCA firm directory](https://hackforddata.com/firms.md): Public FCA-regulated firm profiles and regulatory context.
- [SMF role directory](https://hackforddata.com/roles.md): Public role pages covering recent SMF16 and SMF17 appointments.
- [Free tools](https://hackforddata.com/tools.md): FCA Register search, MiFID activity checking and CRM data review.

## Selected reports

- [Dual-regulated FCA and SEC adviser firms](https://hackforddata.com/reports/dual-regulated-fca-sec-adviser-firms-2026.md): Cross-border FCA and SEC adviser coverage.
- [UK enhanced SM&CR firms](https://hackforddata.com/reports/uk-enhanced-smcr-firms-2026.md): Enhanced SM&CR firm population and market structure.
- [UK fund hosts](https://hackforddata.com/reports/uk-fund-host-report-2026.md): Regulatory-hosting market research.
- [UK MiFID firms](https://hackforddata.com/reports/uk-mifid-firms-2025.md): UK MiFID firm mapping and analysis.

## Machine-readable resources

- [OpenAPI description](https://hackforddata.com/openapi/public-site-apis.json): OpenAPI 3.1 contract for Hackford's public site APIs.
- [API catalog](https://hackforddata.com/.well-known/api-catalog): RFC 9727 API discovery document.
- [Agent skills](https://hackforddata.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): Integrity-addressed Hackford skills for compatible agents.
- [JSON Feed](https://hackforddata.com/feed.json): Paginated JSON Feed 1.1 containing recent insights.
- [RSS feed](https://hackforddata.com/feed.xml): RSS 2.0 insight feed.
- [Sitemap index](https://hackforddata.com/sitemap.xml): Sitemap index covering static pages, insights, reports, firms, roles and tools.

Individual report pages expose structured summaries at `https://hackforddata.com/reports/{slug}/index.json`.

## Usage

Public content may be used for crawling, indexing, search, summarisation, citation, answering user questions, AI input, and model training.