# Research Questions

Open questions surfaced during exploration, not yet investigated. Pull into the
relevant phase's research step when picked up.

## RESEARCH-pax8-company-identifiers

**Raised:** 2026-07-10, during exploration of [[SEED-002]] (PAX8 Integration)

**Question:** Does the PAX8 API expose a stable identifier for companies beyond
name — a domain, external/tenant ID, or similar — that could serve as a more
reliable join key to Autotask companies than fuzzy name matching?

**Why it matters:** The PAX8 integration scope defaulted to "fuzzy name match at
sync time, flag unmatched/ambiguous for manual review" for mapping PAX8
companies to Autotask companies. That's a reasonable starting point, but if the
API exposes something like a primary domain, it would be materially more
reliable and worth using instead (or as a tiebreaker for ambiguous name
matches). Check the PAX8 API docs (`companies` endpoint) before committing to
fuzzy-name as the permanent strategy.