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Ideal Postcodes, worked by an AI employee

Not another app for your team to learn, and not a set of rules for you to build. You hire an AI employee, you give it access to your Ideal Postcodes account, and you ask it for things in Slack or Teams the way you would ask anyone else on the team. There is nothing to map and nothing to maintain.

  • Developer Tools
  • Connects with a key
  • 9 ready-made tools
  • Asked in Slack or Teams
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What Ideal Postcodes is

Ideal Postcodes provides UK and international address search, postcode lookup, address cleansing, and contact validation APIs.

You paste in a key from your own Ideal Postcodes account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Ideal Postcodes whenever you like.

How a run works

One message in, the work done in Ideal Postcodes.

  1. 01

    You ask

    You message your AI employee in the chat your team already has open, in one sentence, in your own words.

  2. 02

    It works out the step

    It decides what the job needs in Ideal Postcodes. You do not pick anything from a menu or wire anything together.

  3. 03

    It does the work

    Signed in to your own Ideal Postcodes account, inside the access you granted it, doing the thing you asked for.

  4. 04

    It reports back

    It tells you what it did, in the same thread. If it could not do something, it says so rather than guessing.

9 tools it already has

What it can do in Ideal Postcodes

These are the ready-made tools your AI employee already has in Ideal Postcodes. It is not limited to them, but it never has to be taught these.

  • Find Address SuggestionsReturn ranked address suggestions for a partial address without resolving them; resolving a selected suggestion is a separate paid lookup.
  • Find Place SuggestionsReturn ranked country, city, and administrative-area suggestions without resolving them; resolving a selected place is a separate paid lookup.
  • Get Address by IdentifierRetrieve a UK address by UDPRN or UMPRN. This consumes a paid lookup, and UMPRN requires the optional Multiple Residence dataset.
  • Lookup PostcodeReturn addresses at a UK postcode, or an Irish Eircode when enabled; successful results consume paid lookups.
  • Resolve Address SuggestionResolve an address suggestion ID to a complete GBR or USA address. This consumes a paid lookup, and USA resolution requires an enabled USA dataset.
  • Resolve PlaceResolve a place suggestion ID to full geography and coordinates. This consumes a paid lookup.
  • Search AddressesSearch complete UK address records by text, filters, or coordinates; successful results consume paid lookups.
  • Validate AddressMatch and standardize a GBR or USA address with confidence details. This consumes a paid lookup, and USA verification requires the optional USPS CASS dataset.
  • Validate ContactValidate an email address or international phone number using an optional paid dataset enabled on the connected Ideal Postcodes API key.
Access, and who is in charge of it

You stay the boss of your Ideal Postcodes account.

Nothing connects until you approve it. You grant access one app at a time, you can take it back the same way, and everything your AI employee does in there is written down where you can see it.

How we handle your data
  • It signs in to your own Ideal Postcodes account. You are not moving anything into ours.
  • You grant access one app at a time, and you can take it back the same way.
  • Everything it does in Ideal Postcodes is written down, with what it did and when.
  • Anything you tell it to check with you first, it checks with you first.
Other apps in the same corner of the business

It works in Ideal Postcodes and the rest of your software in the same job

A real job rarely stays in one place. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in another and writing the result in a third is one request to your AI employee, not three.

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Questions people ask about Ideal Postcodes

Can an AI employee really work inside Ideal Postcodes?
Yes. It signs in to your own Ideal Postcodes account and works in it the way a new hire would, from the chat your team already has open. Nobody installs anything, and nobody learns a new screen.
Do I have to move anything out of Ideal Postcodes?
No. Nothing moves and nothing is replaced. Your records stay in Ideal Postcodes, your team carries on in the same screens they used yesterday, and your AI employee works alongside them in there.
How does it get into my Ideal Postcodes account?
You paste in a key from your own Ideal Postcodes account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Ideal Postcodes whenever you like. You approve it before anything connects, and you can take the access back the same way you gave it.
What can it actually do in Ideal Postcodes?
It has 9 ready-made tools in Ideal Postcodes today, among them Find Address Suggestions, Find Place Suggestions and Get Address by Identifier. The full list is on this page. It is not limited to those, but it never has to be taught them.
Can it use Ideal Postcodes and the rest of my software in the same job?
Yes, and that is usually the point. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in Ideal Postcodes and writing the result somewhere else is one request to your AI employee, not three separate ones you stitch together.
Who decides what it is allowed to do in Ideal Postcodes?
You do. You grant access one app at a time and can withdraw it at any time, anything you ask it to check with you first it checks with you first, and everything it does in Ideal Postcodes is written down with what it did and when.