# Quick start (/docs)



## Find and understand businesses [#find-and-understand-businesses]

<Cards>
  <Card title="Find the right business" href="/docs/ways-to-use-smb/understand-a-business">
    Match a name, location, or identifier to the correct business.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Review a business" href="/docs/ways-to-use-smb/understand-a-business">
    See its profile, sources, freshness, and available context in one place.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Compare businesses" href="/docs/ways-to-use-smb/understand-a-business">
    Put businesses beside relevant industry and market benchmarks.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Check available business data" href="/docs/business-data">
    See which information is available, missing, or due for another look.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Support small business owners [#support-small-business-owners]

<Cards>
  <Card title="Prepare for a client meeting" href="/docs/ways-to-use-smb/advise-a-client">
    Start with a shared picture of the business and its market.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Find a business to buy" href="/docs/ways-to-use-smb/find-a-business-to-buy">
    Search by place, industry, and the attributes that matter to you.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Prepare for succession or a sale" href="/docs/ways-to-use-smb/prepare-for-a-sale">
    Gather the business and market context needed to start planning early.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Understand a local economy" href="/docs/ways-to-use-smb/understand-a-community">
    Explore businesses across a city, county, region, or industry.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Bring SMB into your work [#bring-smb-into-your-work]

<Cards>
  <Card title="Try the playground" href="/playground">
    Try SMB with business information you provide.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Set up your AI" href="/docs/agent-setup">
    Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, or another MCP
    client.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Use the API" href="/docs/api-reference">
    Build directly with SMB's business data and tools.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API quickstart" href="/docs/api-quickstart">
    Use your signed-in user token to make the first authenticated request.
  </Card>
</Cards>

<Callout title="BETA">
  SMB BETA is evolving quickly. Check the API reference for the operations
  currently available at `https://api.smb.co/docs`.
</Callout>