The Enigma Data Catalog: Every Attribute, Explained
A complete reference of all Enigma data attributes — card revenues, transactions, firmographics, verification, and more — with key fields for each.
Enigma provides a single reliable source of data about the business identity, firmographics, and financial health of small and medium businesses. This catalog covers every attribute available across card transaction data, business identity, compliance signals, and public records.
Use this as a reference when building integrations, evaluating data packages, or scoping a new use case.
Card Transaction Data
This group of attributes is derived from a panel of 700 million+ debit and credit cards, aggregated and matched to U.S. businesses using proprietary entity resolution.
| Data | Description | Key Fields |
|---|---|---|
| Card Revenues | Monthly revenue a business receives from credit and debit card transactions, built from a panel of 700 million+ debit and credit cards. | Average monthly card revenue for the previous month, the previous three months, and the previous twelve months. |
| Card Revenue Growth | How card revenue is trending at a business over time. | Card revenue growth rate for the last twelve months compared to the previous twelve months; card revenue growth rate for the previous three months (seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted). |
| Card Transactions | Monthly number of credit and debit card transactions at a business. | Average monthly number of card transactions for the previous month, the previous three months, and the previous twelve months. |
| Card Transactions Stability | Distribution of card transactions at a business over time. Shows how many days, weeks, or months saw purchases at a business within a given time period. | Number of days transactions were present, number of weeks transactions were present, number of months transactions were present. Available over one month, three month, and twelve month time periods. |
| Customer Counts | Average number of daily customers a business has, based on credit and debit transactions. | Average daily count for the previous month, the previous three months, and the previous twelve months. |
| Card Refunds | Distribution of card refunds issued directly from the business. | Total refunds, average refund transaction size, refund to revenue ratio, refund to revenue growth rate. Available over one month, three month, and twelve month time periods. |
Business Identity and Firmographics
These attributes cover the core identity of a business — who they are, where they operate, and how they’re structured.
| Data | Description | Key Fields |
|---|---|---|
| Industry | Industry classification equivalent to a 2–6 digit NAICS code, signifying the primary purpose of a business. | Industry classification code (integer), industry classification description, industry classification type (string). |
| Enigma ID | Enigma’s unique identifier for the business. | Enigma ID. |
| Aliases | The various names for the business found in Enigma’s data sources. Names are ordered by prevalence. | Alias. |
| Addresses | List of addresses for the business. | Street, city, state, and postal code. |
| EIN Number | The EIN numbers associated with the business — the nine-digit employer identification number assigned by the IRS. | EIN. |
| Phone Numbers | The phone numbers associated with the business. | Phone numbers. |
| Year Incorporated | Year of the earliest incorporation date found in Enigma’s data sources. | Year incorporated. |
| Websites | List of website URLs associated with the business. | Websites. |
| Associated People | People associated with the business and their titles. | Name, Titles. |
| Registered Agents | Registered agents associated with the business. A registered agent is a business or individual designated to receive service of process when a business is involved in a legal matter. | — |
| Corporate Structure | The legal structure under which the business is incorporated. | Corporate structure. |
Business Verification and Compliance
These attributes support KYB workflows, compliance checks, and onboarding decisioning. See Enigma KYB for more on how these signals power verification.
| Data | Description | Key Fields |
|---|---|---|
| Business Verification | Enigma’s confidence that a business exists and is in good standing. Computed using several verification components: data freshness, footprint, and activity. | Verification score, data freshness, source quality, data footprint, business activity. |
| Match Confidence | Indicates the extent to which a query matched a business record in Enigma’s SMB data asset, where 1 represents an exact match. | Match confidence (number from 0 to 1). |
| Matched Fields | Shows the name, address, and person in Enigma’s data asset that were found. | Name, Person, Address. Address includes street address 1, street address 2, city, state, and postal code. |
| Match | Whether the match confidence for a returned business exceeds the match threshold. | Is matched (“True” or “false”). |
Corporate Registrations
| Data | Description | Key Fields |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate Registrations | List of a company’s corporate registrations, with full details. Can be used to verify a business. | Business name, domestic or foreign, mailing address, registered agent address, registered business address, site address. |
| Corporate Registrations (basic) | A list of states and corresponding registration dates for state-level corporate registrations found in Enigma’s data sources. Does not provide details such as domestic or foreign status or mailing address. | State, Issue date, File number. |
Public Records and Risk Signals
| Data | Description | Key Fields |
|---|---|---|
| Construction Licenses | Data about businesses that currently hold (or previously held) a construction license. | License history flag, license start and end dates, license number, licenses classification, state-specific details. |
| SBA Loans | Data about loans backed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). | Total number of loans in each category, total value of loans in each category, loan status, loan approval date, number of months in loan term, approval amount, loan type. |
| WARN Notifications | Data about layoffs or closings provided in compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. | Layoff or closing, number of employees impacted, total headcount before layoff, percent of employees laid off, reason, notice received date, layoff or closing date. |
| Business Bankruptcies | Publicly filed bankruptcy information for a given company. | Bankruptcy flag, chapter type, filing date, case number. |
How to Access This Data
Enigma’s data is available via API and through the Enigma Console. Attributes are available individually or bundled into packages depending on your use case.
For go-to-market teams using card transaction data to identify fast-growing prospects, see the GTM guide to prospecting with card transaction data.
For risk and underwriting teams, see the guide to mitigating risk with card transaction data.
Ready to explore what’s available for your use case? Talk to the Enigma team.