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October 2026 Update

22 days ago by ReadMe API

🎃 October 2026: company admins can manage their own team, the new Age Estimation endpoint tells you whether the person behind an email or a phone number is an adult, the Investigator runs a full onboarding check from a single message, Enterprise customers get their first Agent, Merchant Risk, which re-checks a merchant domain on a schedule, and Contact Match now lives in your dashboard with a dedicated analytics page.

Company Admins Can Manage Their Team

Companies now have their own admin. The person who creates the company becomes its Admin and can run the team without going through support.

🔍 Key Features

  • 👥 Invite, disable and restore members: an Admin adds people from Settings › Team, frees a seat by disabling someone who no longer needs access, and brings them back later with their history intact.
  • 📧 Resend an invitation: invitation emails carry a temporary password valid for 24 hours. Once it expires, one click sends a fresh one and invalidates the old password.
  • 🚀 Rollout: the Admin role applies to every newly created company. Already a customer? Reach out to [email protected] to tell us who your Admin is.

For everyone else nothing is lost: Members see the same Team page in read only, and App Keys now sit in Settings › App Keys.

Learn more on the Manage Users guide.

Investigator: Onboarding Checks and More

The Investigator, the AI assistant in your dashboard, now does more from a single chat message.

The Investigator running an onboarding check, a phone owner lookup and a disposable phone check

🔍 Key Features

  • 🧾 Onboarding in one message: paste an email, a phone number, an IP and a full name together, and the Investigator runs one onboarding check with a single score.
  • 👤 Find a phone owner: ask who is behind a phone number and get the name linked to it.
  • 📵 Disposable phone check: find out whether a phone number is temporary or disposable.
  • 💬 Follow-up questions: after a check, keep asking about the result in the same chat.
  • 📄 Request details in one click: every result card opens the full request detail.

Trustfull Agents: Monitor Merchant Risk

An Agent runs a check for you on a schedule and alerts you when the result gets worse. Agents come in several types: Merchant Risk is the first, and the others are coming soon.

Creating a Merchant Risk Agent and receiving a score alert

🔍 Merchant Risk: a recurring Domain check

  • 🌐 Domain on repeat: each check is a full Domain request on a merchant website, with fresh data.
  • 🔁 Your schedule: daily, weekly or monthly.
  • 🔔 Alerts: an email or a signed webhook when the score falls below your threshold.
  • 🖥️ In the dashboard: create and manage your Agents from the new Agents page.

Enterprise plan only. Each check costs the same credits as a Domain request. Learn more on the Agents guide.

New Endpoint: Age Estimation

Age Estimation tells you if the person behind an email address, a phone number, or both, is an adult.

🔍 Key Features

  • 🔞 Adult confirmation: send an email address, a phone number or both. When our sources confirm the person is an adult, is_adult is true. In every other case it is null: the response never labels anyone as a minor.
  • 🎂 Date of birth when available: when a registry source holds it and the person is confirmed as an adult, the date of birth comes back with the result.
  • ✅ Format validation included: the response tells you whether the email and the phone number you sent could be parsed, so a bad input never looks like a negative result.

📊 Example Output

{
  "phone_is_valid_format": true,
  "email_is_valid_format": true,
  "is_adult": true,
  "date_of_birth": "1992-04-17"
}
  • is_adult (boolean): true when the person can be confirmed as an adult. null otherwise.
  • date_of_birth (string): The date of birth, when available. null unless is_adult is true.
  • email_is_valid_format (boolean): Whether the email sent can be parsed. null when no email was sent.
  • phone_is_valid_format (boolean): Whether the phone number sent can be parsed. null when no phone number was sent.

Learn more on the Age Estimation API Reference, or see it listed with the other Data APIs.

Contact Match in the Dashboard

Contact Match results now sit in the dashboard, alongside every other product.

The Contact Match analytics page: requests over time, hit rate and top countries
  • 📋 All requests: every Contact Match call appears in Requests, with the date of birth on the row.
  • 📊 Analytics page: the hit rate by country, to see where your lookups resolve.
  • 💰 Usage charts: Contact Match consumption counts like everything else.

Learn more on the Contact Match guide.

📚 Resources