> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://develop.cotality.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Cotality developer portal

> The data and AI platform for property intelligence — integrate Cotality's property data, analytics, and AI capabilities into your products.

Cotality is the largest provider of property data and analytics in the United States. This portal gives you direct access to the data, AI agents, and integration tools used by the mortgage, insurance, real estate, and enterprise data industries to power their most critical workflows.

## Who are you building for?

Select your industry to see the solutions, use cases, and integration paths built for your business.

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  <Card title="Finance and mortgage" icon="house-circle-check" href="/solutions/mortgage-valuation">
    For lenders, AMCs, and appraisers — automate collateral evaluation, appraisal order management, and UAD compliance review
  </Card>

  <Card title="Property and casualty insurance" icon="shield-halved" href="/solutions/property-insurance">
    For underwriters and claims teams — model climate exposure, assess structural risk, and accelerate hazard policy decisions
  </Card>

  <Card title="Real estate" icon="chart-line" href="/solutions/brokerage-investing">
    For realtors and investors — track listing activity, forecast home prices, and analyze market conditions across any geography
  </Card>

  <Card title="Enterprise data teams" icon="database" href="/solutions/enterprise-data-teams">
    For platform and data engineers — access the full catalog of property data APIs, MCP servers, and AI orchestration tools
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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## Integration options

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  <Card title="AI agents" icon="robot" href="/ai-integrations/valuation-solutions/ai-agents">
    <Badge color="purple">Alpha</Badge>
    Conversational agents for appraisal management, vendor operations, and compliance review — built on Google ADK with A2A protocol support
  </Card>

  <Card title="MCP servers" icon="plug" href="/mcp/overview">
    <Badge color="green">GA</Badge>
    Connect any LLM or AI assistant to Cotality property data and analytics through the Model Context Protocol
  </Card>

  <Card title="REST APIs" icon="code" href="/getting-started/overview#rest-apis">
    <Badge color="green">GA</Badge>
    Traditional HTTP integrations for property data, risk scoring, market analytics, valuation, fraud detection, and more
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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## Platform capabilities

| Capability                         | What it does                                                     | Status                              |
| ---------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| **Property Identification (CLIP)** | Universal property identifier lookup across all U.S. parcels     | <Badge color="green">GA</Badge>     |
| **Property Characteristics**       | Physical, structural, ownership, and tax data for any address    | <Badge color="green">GA</Badge>     |
| **Climate Risk Analytics**         | Age of Roof estimates and multi-peril climate risk scores        | <Badge color="green">GA</Badge>     |
| **Market Trend Analytics**         | Listing trends, rental trends, and Home Price Index forecasts    | <Badge color="green">GA</Badge>     |
| **Valuation AI Agents**            | Appraisal order, vendor management, and compliance review agents | <Badge color="purple">Alpha</Badge> |

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## The data behind it

| Metric                                       | Scale    |
| -------------------------------------------- | -------- |
| Property coverage in our largest markets     | 98%+     |
| Data points refreshed monthly                | 1M+      |
| Verified property and public-record sources  | 22,000+  |
| Years of historical property and market data | 50       |
| Environmental risk forecast horizon          | 30 years |

<Info>
  Figures reflect Cotality's published U.S. platform metrics and are provided for planning
  context. Confirm coverage and freshness for a specific data asset on its
  [data freshness page](/ontology/data-freshness) before building time-critical logic.
</Info>

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## Get started

<Steps>
  <Step title="Understand your use case">
    Browse solutions by industry to see which capabilities map to your business workflows
  </Step>

  <Step title="Get credentials">
    Request OAuth2 `client_id` and `client_secret` credentials from your Cotality account representative
  </Step>

  <Step title="Authenticate">
    Exchange your credentials for a bearer token — works for both MCP and REST API access
  </Step>

  <Step title="Build and test">
    Use the MCP inspector, Python SDK examples, and interactive API playground to validate your integration before going to production
  </Step>
</Steps>

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  <Card title="Platform overview →" href="/getting-started/overview" icon="map">
    Understand the full platform, product lifecycle stages, and access model
  </Card>

  <Card title="Authentication →" href="/mcp/authentication" icon="key">
    Get your first access token in under five minutes
  </Card>
</CardGroup>