Full reference for the live Clous Form ADV endpoints — list/search registered investment advisers and fetch a full adviser profile by CRD.

Advisers (Form ADV)

The advisers endpoints expose Form ADV registered investment advisers, resolved to canonical entities. These are the endpoints that are live in production today.

Base URL: https://api.clous.ai
Auth: Authorization: Bearer clous_live_...

List / search advisers

GET /v1/advisers

List and filter Form ADV investment advisers. Results are returned through the standard envelope and are cursor-paginated.

Query parameters

Prop

Type

Example request

Top NY-based advisers with at least $1B AUM:

curl -s "https://api.clous.ai/v1/advisers?state=NY&aum_min=1000000000&limit=5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer clous_live_..."

Example response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "crd": "105958",
      "business_name": "THE VANGUARD GROUP, INC.",
      "legal_name": "THE VANGUARD GROUP, INC.",
      "regulatory_aum_total": 8500000000000,
      "has_private_funds": false,
      "address": {
        "street1": "100 Vanguard Blvd",
        "city": "Malvern",
        "state": "PA",
        "postal_code": "19355",
        "country": "United States"
      },
      "source": "SEC EDGAR — Form ADV",
      "source_url": "https://reports.adviserinfo.sec.gov/reports/ADV/105958/PDF/105958.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "page": { "limit": 5, "next_cursor": "eyJvIjo1fQ", "has_more": true },
  "as_of": "2026-06-11T00:00:00Z",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR — Form ADV",
  "query_echo": { "state": "NY", "aum_min": 1000000000, "limit": 5 },
  "warnings": []
}

Field values above are illustrative. data records carry the canonical entity fields (CRD, names, regulatory AUM, address, private-fund flag) plus provenance (source, source_url).

Status codes

Status	Meaning
`200`	Success. An empty result still returns `200` with `data: []` and a `warnings` entry.
`422`	Validation error — a parameter was the wrong type or out of range.

Get adviser by CRD

GET /v1/advisers/{crd}

Return the full profile for a single adviser identified by its CRD number.

Path parameters

Prop

Type

Example request

curl -s "https://api.clous.ai/v1/advisers/105958" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer clous_live_..."

Example response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "crd": "105958",
      "business_name": "THE VANGUARD GROUP, INC.",
      "legal_name": "THE VANGUARD GROUP, INC.",
      "regulatory_aum_total": 8500000000000,
      "has_private_funds": false,
      "disciplinary": false,
      "address": {
        "street1": "100 Vanguard Blvd",
        "city": "Malvern",
        "state": "PA",
        "postal_code": "19355",
        "country": "United States"
      },
      "source": "SEC EDGAR — Form ADV",
      "source_url": "https://reports.adviserinfo.sec.gov/reports/ADV/105958/PDF/105958.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "page": { "limit": 1, "next_cursor": null, "has_more": false },
  "as_of": "2026-06-11T00:00:00Z",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR — Form ADV",
  "query_echo": { "crd": "105958" },
  "warnings": []
}

Status codes

Status	Meaning
`200`	Success. The adviser profile is the single record in `data`.
`422`	Validation error on the `crd` path parameter.

A CRD that resolves to no adviser is reported through the not_found error semantics.

Notes

All values derive from public SEC EDGAR — Form ADV filings. Clous is independent of the SEC.
Use query_echo in the response to confirm exactly which typed parameters Clous applied to your request.
For paging through large result sets, follow page.next_cursor — see Pagination, Errors & Rate limits.

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