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EIC is Context.dev’s product-oriented classification. It represents a company as one or more { industry, subindustry } pairs and is returned inside a full Brand profile when classification is available. There is no separate EIC endpoint. The Brand request costs 10 credits; reading EIC does not require another call.

Retrieve EIC tags

The PHP tab uses the SDK’s low-level request method because the 2.14.0 Brand helper requires conflicting lookup fields. See the PHP guide for details.

Read the response

A company can have multiple EIC pairs. Keep the pair together; a subindustry should not be interpreted without its parent industry.

Store the labels

  • Treat brand, industries, and eic as optional in application code.
  • Store the returned strings exactly if they are used as enum values or routing keys.
  • Keep an “unclassified” fallback instead of forcing a company into a category.
  • Review release notes before changing analytics or routing logic that depends on category labels.
The Brand API reference is the source of truth for current EIC enum values. Copying the full taxonomy into application code or another documentation page creates a second version that can drift.

When to use another taxonomy

EIC labels are not a drop-in replacement for NAICS or SIC codes.

Retrieve NAICS industry codes

Use NAICS when a downstream system requires that code set.

Retrieve SIC industry codes

Use SIC when a downstream system requires that code set.