# Build on the API

### Build on the API
Full control, end to end. Call the API from your server (`/direct/*`) and your client (`/users/*`) to build a credit experience that looks and feels native to your product. Pull exactly the data you need — scores, reports, alerts, identity, optimal-path plans, and more — and render it however you want.
> **Pick the API** when you have a strong design system and want credit data to feel like a first-class part of your product.

> **Note —** The widget is built on this same API. Anything the widget does, you can do yourself.

Version: v3

## Description:

  - `Build on the API` ()
    Full control, end to end. Call the API from your server (/direct/*) and your client (/users/*) to build a credit experience that looks and feels native to your product. Pull exactly the data you need — scores, reports, alerts, identity, optimal-path plans, and more — and render it however you want. Pick the API when you have a strong design system and want credit data to feel like a first-class part of your product. Note — The widget is built on this same API. Anything the widget does, you can do yourself.