The Academy
The curated library of lookup intelligence.
Guides and deep dives that teach humans and AI how every Encrata lookup works - from email enrichment to dark web search.
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- Email enrichment deep dive: from address to identity
- Encrata's guide to OSINT for security teams
- How breach data ends up on the dark web (and how to search it)
- Primer on phone number intelligence
- Common misconceptions about email deliverability
- Understanding WHOIS, DNS, and SSL records
- Choosing the right lookup: a guide for builders
- Risk scoring strategies for fraud and abuse teams
- Navigating company data: firmographics explained
- Enrichment strategies for sales and growth teams
- Scraping the modern web: JavaScript, blocks, and JSON
- Everything you need to know about reverse face search
- Tax-free credits: making the most of your free tier
- How to pick the right plan for your workload
- Exit IPs, proxies, and VPN detection for platforms
Latest additions
- An introduction to agent-ready APIs
- An introduction to auth.md for AI agents
- A framework for thinking about lookup chaining with Workflows
- Connecting Claude, ChatGPT & Cursor with the Encrata MCP server
- Case study: validating 1M signups in real time
- Interview-style walkthrough: building an OSINT pipeline
- Primer on Google search at API speed
- Choosing the right lookup: a guide for builders
- The platform team's guide to managing API credits
- Mastering pagination and rate limits at scale
- Embracing webhooks: real-time results without polling
- Token-smart responses: compact JSON for LLM contexts
- Bulk lookups: enriching entire CSVs in one call
- Monitors: tracking changes to people and companies
- CLI essentials: lookups from your terminal
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