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# Accelerate onboarding

> Use Signal, Autocomplete, Smart populate, and Business enrichment to efficiently evaluate business risk and improve onboarding conversion.

Use Middesk tools to efficiently evaluate business risk, pre-fill application fields, and improve onboarding conversion.

## Signal

Use Signal to instantly score business identity, legitimacy, and risk.

#### [How Signal works](/accelerate-onboarding/how-signal-works)

Signal generates a score-based result to understand a business' identity, legitimacy, and risk profile.

#### [Score a business profile](/accelerate-onboarding/score)

Score a business profile using Signal through the Middesk Dashboard or API.

#### [Reason code reference](/accelerate-onboarding/reason-codes)

Reference page of the possible reason codes provided when scoring a business.

## Pre-fill onboarding fields

Use these APIs to retrieve business data and pre-populate onboarding forms, reducing friction for applicants.

#### [Integrate Autocomplete API](/accelerate-onboarding/autocomplete)

Return real-time autocomplete suggestions as users type a business name.

#### [Integrate Smart populate API](/accelerate-onboarding/smart-populate)

Get instant business data to pre-fill onboarding fields synchronously.

#### [Create Business enrichment order](/accelerate-onboarding/business-enrichment)

Retrieve business attributes asynchronously with higher coverage for web analysis and industry classification.

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> Use Signal, Autocomplete, Smart populate, and Business enrichment to efficiently evaluate business risk and improve onboarding conversion.

## Docs

- [How Signal works](https://docs.middesk.com/accelerate-onboarding/how-signal-works.md): Signal generates an instant, score-based result to understand a business' identity, legitimacy, and risk profile.
- [Score a business profile](https://docs.middesk.com/accelerate-onboarding/score.md): Score a business profile using Signal through the Dashboard or API to receive an instant risk assessment based on business name, address, and optional TIN/EIN and people data.
- [Reason codes](https://docs.middesk.com/accelerate-onboarding/reason-codes.md): The reason codes that Signal uses to explain its business verification scores across identification, verification, and evaluation categories.
- [Autocomplete business names and addresses](https://docs.middesk.com/accelerate-onboarding/autocomplete.md): Use the Business Identities Autocomplete API to return real-time, structured autocomplete suggestions based on partial business names.
- [Return synchronous business details with Smart populate](https://docs.middesk.com/accelerate-onboarding/smart-populate.md): Use the Smart populate API to return real-time data about a business for pre-filling onboarding fields.
- [Return complete business profiles with Business enrichment](https://docs.middesk.com/accelerate-onboarding/business-enrichment.md): Use Business enrichment orders to retrieve business attributes with higher coverage for web analysis and industry classification.