Platform Overview

AddressValid is not a static address database. It is an Address Intelligence and Location Infrastructure Platform designed to solve complex addressing realities globally.

Traditional location services assume standard Western addressing grids (door numbers, ZIP codes, structured street grids). In contrast, AddressValid natively understands:

• Landmark-based directions ("Opposite Domino's Pizza, Blue Gate")
• Gated estate and district names ("Chevron Cooperative Estate, Lekki")
• Informal settlement names & local market districts ("Computer Village, Ikeja")
• Road aliases and local shorthand ("CMS", "Marina", "VIP")
• Municipal boundaries, LGAs, and informal administrative districts

Every engineering decision across AddressValid improves one or more of our foundational pillars:

1. Discoverability: High-speed, fault-tolerant address search and prefix autocompletion (<150ms).
2. Validation: Deep verification of address deliverability, component breakdown, and typo correction.
3. Geocoding & Spatial Precision: High-accuracy conversion between plain text location descriptions and WGS84 spatial coordinates.
4. Semantic Search: AI vector search (pgvector) to parse natural language descriptions into canonical physical locations.
5. Global Architecture: Designed from day one to support multi-country administrative hierarchies and ISO standards without backend refactoring.

AddressValid uses polyglot persistence to deliver sub-second responses:

• PostgreSQL: System of record for organizations, API keys, usage, and audit trails.
• PostGIS: Spatial indexing, radius queries, boundary polygons, and nearest-neighbor calculations.
• OpenSearch: High-speed autocomplete, fuzzy search, n-gram matching, and relevance ranking.
• pgvector: Semantic vector search for natural language landmark understanding.
• Redis: High-performance caching, distributed locking, and sub-millisecond rate limiting.

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curl -X GET "https://api.addressvalid.io/v1/address/autocomplete?query=Admiralty" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_demo123456"