diff --git a/services/SharedKernel/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients/ConfigurationExtensions.cs b/services/SharedKernel/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients/ConfigurationExtensions.cs
index c402a5015..574610dec 100644
--- a/services/SharedKernel/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients/ConfigurationExtensions.cs
+++ b/services/SharedKernel/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients/ConfigurationExtensions.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 using FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients.Options;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
+using Polly;
 using Refit;
 
 namespace FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients
@@ -10,14 +11,18 @@ public static class ConfigurationExtensions
     {
         public static void AddApiClients(this IServiceCollection services, IConfiguration configuration)
         {
-            // TODO: add Polly for resiliency
             // TODO: use SystemTextJsonContentSerializer() once less feature-limited
             services.AddRefitClient<IDirectoryApi>()
                 .ConfigureHttpClient(c =>
                 {
                     var host = configuration.GetSection(ApiOptions.Key).Get<ApiOptions>().DirectoryHost;
                     c.BaseAddress = new UriBuilder("http", host).Uri;
-                });
+                })
+                .AddTransientHttpErrorPolicy(b =>
+                    b.WaitAndRetryAsync(new[]
+                    {
+                        TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)
+                    }));
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/services/SharedKernel/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients.csproj b/services/SharedKernel/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients.csproj
index f959b1574..f421b1738 100644
--- a/services/SharedKernel/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients.csproj
+++ b/services/SharedKernel/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients/FilterLists.SharedKernel.Apis.Clients.csproj
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
             <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
             <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
         </PackageReference>
+        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Polly" Version="3.1.8" />
         <PackageReference Include="Refit.HttpClientFactory" Version="5.2.1" />
     </ItemGroup>