aid: advisorcheck
name: AdvisorCheck
description: AdvisorCheck is a consumer-first platform for researching, comparing and continuously monitoring
  US financial advisors and the firms they work for. It compiles verified public regulatory data — FINRA
  BrokerCheck, the SEC's Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) system, court records and six industry
  certification bodies — into profiles covering roughly 380,000 investment adviser representatives and
  620,000 registered representatives. A free tier covers search and basic advisor monitoring; the paid
  AdvisorCheck Premium membership adds Advanced Monitoring with firm-stability insights (AUM changes,
  advisor headcount and retention, client acquisition trends, leadership and ownership changes, new firm
  disclosures). AdvisorCheck was founded in 2019, is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey with
  an office in Los Angeles, and raised a $1.8M seed round in June 2023. The company operates an application
  API at api.advisorcheck.com but publishes no public developer program, API reference or machine-readable
  contract.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/advisorcheck/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelpcenter_logos/jdvki1Q6KfvVYn6WJ5IbzFkAMI1HDBnm3wWzcecsDmKnxPzAOwQgpAeq64xEys7QLTIbrs9OKCX.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-09'
modified: '2026-09-09'
tags:
- Company
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Regulatory Data
- Background Checks
- Investor Protection
- Financial Advisors
- Wealth Management
- Consumer Finance
- Compliance
apis:
- aid: advisorcheck:advisorcheck-platform-api
  name: AdvisorCheck Platform API
  description: 'The first-party HTTP API behind the AdvisorCheck consumer web application, served from
    an AWS API Gateway custom domain at api.advisorcheck.com. It is an internal application backend, not
    a published developer product: every route answers HTTP 403 "Missing Authentication Token" without
    an app-issued credential, /ping returns 200 "healthy", and the /fa/* prefix proxies to an upstream
    fa-service at /v1/fa-service/*. AdvisorCheck publishes no OpenAPI, GraphQL SDL, Postman collection,
    API reference or developer portal for it — see x-coverage.'
  humanURL: https://www.advisorcheck.com/
  baseURL: https://api.advisorcheck.com
  position: Producing
  tags:
  - Financial Advisors
  - Regulatory Data
  x-access: private-application-backend
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.advisorcheck.com/
  image: https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelpcenter_logos/jdvki1Q6KfvVYn6WJ5IbzFkAMI1HDBnm3wWzcecsDmKnxPzAOwQgpAeq64xEys7QLTIbrs9OKCX.png
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/advisorcheck-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.advisorcheck.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.advisorcheck.com/about-us
- type: Support
  url: https://help.advisorcheck.com/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.advisorcheck.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.advisorcheck.com/blog/what-does-a-financial-advisor-do
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.advisorcheck.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.advisorcheck.com/privacy-policy
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/advisorcheck-llms.txt
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://help.advisorcheck.com/en/collections/7-getting-started-with-advisorchceck
- type: Plans
  url: plans/advisorcheck-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/advisorcheck-rate-limits.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/advisorcheck-conformance.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-09'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: 'AdvisorCheck ships a consumer web product only: api.advisorcheck.com is an AWS API Gateway
    custom domain serving the app''s own backend and answers 403 "Missing Authentication Token" on /openapi.json,
    /swagger.json, /api-docs, /graphql and /mcp alike, while the company''s complete public help-center
    index (help.advisorcheck.com/llms.txt, HTTP 200, 95 lines, 9 collections) contains no developer, API,
    SDK or integration topic at all — and the marketing host is separately unreadable behind a Vercel
    Security Checkpoint (x-vercel-mitigated: challenge) on every path.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.advisorcheck.com/openapi.json
    status: 403
  - url: https://api.advisorcheck.com/ping
    status: 200
  - url: https://help.advisorcheck.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.advisorcheck.com/
    status: 429
  checked: '2026-09-09'