> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.kalent.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Embedded API overview

> Bring Kalent talent search, qualification, and LinkedIn contact enrichment into your own product.

The **Embedded API** is for companies that use Kalent through the API only, usually to offer talent search inside their own product to their own customers. Nothing here depends on the Kalent app: you send a request, you get profiles back, and what you do with them is up to your product.

## What it covers

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Talent search" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/api-reference/search-talents">
    Synchronous search by filters or by prompt. One credit per profile returned.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Qualified search" icon="badge-check" href="/api-reference/qualified-search-overview">
    Asynchronous search that judges every matching profile green, amber, or red against your criteria. Two credits per judged profile.
  </Card>

  <Card title="LinkedIn contact enrichment" icon="address-book" href="/api-reference/contact-enrich">
    Verified email and phone for a LinkedIn profile URL.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What it assumes

* An API key. Create it in the Kalent app under your workspace settings; see [Authentication](/authentication).
* API credits on that workspace. Search, qualification, and enrichment all draw from the same credit balance.
* Nothing else. You do not need to create sourcings or candidates in the Kalent app, and no recruiter has to log in.

## Same key, same credits as the Platform API

The [Platform API](/platform-api-overview) automates a workspace that a team also uses in the Kalent app: sourcings, candidates, and outreach sequences. Both APIs authenticate with the same workspace API key and spend the same API credits, so you can mix them on one workspace. Start with the Embedded API if your users never open the Kalent app; start with the Platform API if they do.

## Next steps

1. Read [Authentication](/authentication) and [Non-deterministic results](/non-deterministic-results).
2. Run your first [`POST /v1/search/talents`](/api-reference/search-talents), or import the [Postman collection](/introduction#try-it-in-postman).
3. When you need verdicts rather than raw profiles, move to the [qualified search overview](/api-reference/qualified-search-overview).