Local partner or acquisition candidates for a market entry (Legend tier)
find_partner_candidatesRank the LOCAL service providers of a target country or region — the firms a practice partners with, subcontracts to, or acquires to enter a market. local_only (default true) keeps firms with NO sister entity in another country (read from the brand-family key of the SSOT): a subsidiary of a global group is a competitor, not a partner. Filter by kind and by DECLARED SAP module; rows carry the declared modules, the sister countries of the brand (when any), the count of declared partnerships and the public directory fields. Ordered by SAP signal, then data completeness. country or region is required: a partner search without a target market is the whole directory. Paginated by cursor. Requires a subscriber API key, Legend tier or above. No person, no e-mail — outreach details stay behind the platform's signed-URL path.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| kind | No | Restrict to one provider kind (placement agencies, ESN/SI practices, Big-4, SAP partners, platforms). SAP's own entities, communities, schools and public bodies are never in this population. | |
| limit | No | Max rows (hard cap 50). | |
| cursor | No | Opaque token from a previous response's `_meta.next_cursor`. Pass it back with the SAME filter arguments; `null` means the last page. Changing a filter refuses the cursor. | |
| module | No | Restrict to firms with a DECLARED link to one SAP module code (UPPERCASE snake_case, e.g. DATASPHERE, BDC, SAC — call count_firms_by {by:"module"} for the live vocabulary). Absence means no declared link, never incapacity. | |
| region | No | Region code of the HQ country — the platform's six-value geography: EMEA (Europe AND the Middle East), AMER (North America), LATAM, APAC, AFRICA (its own region, not folded into EMEA), GLOBAL (country unknown). Case-insensitive on input; anything else is refused. | |
| country | No | ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country code, e.g. DE, FR, CH. | |
| local_only | No | true (default): only firms with no sister entity abroad. false: every provider of the market, groups included. |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| rows | Yes | ||
| tool | Yes | ||
| _meta | No | ||
| _attribution | Yes | ||
| result_count | Yes |