What's the difference between the three consortium check surfaces?

Last updated: July 8, 2026

Baselayer allows for 3 different routes to check application data against its fraud consortium:

	When to use	Cost / latency
Inline (in `POST /searches`)	Already running a full KYB.	No extra API call, already included as part of `watchlist_hits`.
Ad-hoc (`POST /consortium/searches`)	Quick screen with raw identifiers, no full KYB.	Synchronous, single round-trip.
Batch (`POST /consortium/searches/batches`)	Portfolio sweeps, monitoring, many businesses at once.	Async; results in JSONL via signed URL.