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Credit report output is stored on the Book at book_meta.parser_v2_credit_report. It preserves each bureau as its own view of the subject’s credit file.

Response model

The following models describe the complete credit report payload.
All extracted fields are optional because report formats vary. Check for missing values at the boundary of your workflow.

Read the subject

The fraud-alert and security-freeze fields are null when the report does not provide enough information to decide.

Read FICO scores

A multi-bureau report can return several scores. Keep the bureau name attached to every score instead of collapsing them into one unexplained number.

Select one bureau for account totals

The same tradeline commonly appears under Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion. Summing every bureau together can count one debt several times. Pathway stores the bureau chosen in the UI at book_meta.selected_credit_bureau. Your integration can use that value or apply its own explicit bureau policy.
This keeps account balances, payments, and counts internally consistent. You can still display every bureau side by side.

Work with tradelines

Derogatory history

account_status_normalized describes the current account state. worst_delinquency_days preserves late-payment history even when the account is currently closed or paid.

Authorized-user and self-reported accounts

Pathway flags accounts that should often be handled separately in underwriting.
The flags preserve the report’s account role. Your credit policy decides whether to exclude them from a particular calculation.

Monthly obligations

This is a selected-bureau total. Avoid combining it with the same accounts from other bureaus.

Revolving utilization

Charge accounts can have no conventional credit limit. Keep utilization nullable when a denominator is unavailable.

Read hard inquiries

Inquiries live inside each credit_bureau object.
The API returns the inquiries visible in the source report. Apply any recency window required by your own credit policy.

Produce a selected-bureau summary

For a formatted workbook, use the vlad_full, vlad_summary, or vlad_loc_scrub templates described in Exports.