# Rule-based matching for Identity Resolution in Connect Customer
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Identity Resolution in AC automatically finds similar profiles and helps you consolidate them. The topics in this section describe how to set up rule-based Identity Resolution to consolidate duplicate profiles as part of the automatic merging process.

**Topics**
+ [How rule-based Identity Resolution works](how-rule-based-identity-resolution-works.md)
+ [Set up rule-based matching for Identity Resolution](setup-rule-based-matching.md)
+ [Set up matching rules for rule-based Identity Resolution](setup-matching-rule-examples.md)