diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/api-report.md b/plugins/catalog-backend/api-report.md
index 9d542c674d..44073d19e0 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/api-report.md
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/api-report.md
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import { Organizations } from 'aws-sdk';
 import { PluginDatabaseManager } from '@backstage/backend-common';
 import { PluginEndpointDiscovery } from '@backstage/backend-common';
 import { ResourceEntityV1alpha1 } from '@backstage/catalog-model';
+import { Router } from 'express';
 import { ScmIntegrationRegistry } from '@backstage/integration';
 import { ScmIntegrations } from '@backstage/integration';
 import { UrlReader } from '@backstage/backend-common';
@@ -269,12 +270,19 @@ export type CatalogEnvironment = {
 //
 // @public (undocumented)
 export interface CatalogProcessingEngine {
+  // (undocumented)
+  refresh(options: CatalogProcessingEngineRefreshOptions): Promise<void>;
   // (undocumented)
   start(): Promise<void>;
   // (undocumented)
   stop(): Promise<void>;
 }
 
+// @public (undocumented)
+export type CatalogProcessingEngineRefreshOptions = {
+  entityRef: string;
+};
+
 // Warning: (ae-missing-release-tag) "CatalogProcessingOrchestrator" is exported by the package, but it is missing a release tag (@alpha, @beta, @public, or @internal)
 //
 // @public (undocumented)
@@ -1194,6 +1202,7 @@ export class NextCatalogBuilder {
     locationAnalyzer: LocationAnalyzer;
     processingEngine: CatalogProcessingEngine;
     locationService: LocationService;
+    router: Router;
   }>;
   // Warning: (tsdoc-param-tag-missing-hyphen) The @param block should be followed by a parameter name and then a hyphen
   replaceEntityPolicies(policies: EntityPolicy[]): NextCatalogBuilder;
@@ -1229,6 +1238,8 @@ export interface NextRouterOptions {
   locationService: LocationService;
   // (undocumented)
   logger: Logger_2;
+  // (undocumented)
+  processingEngine?: CatalogProcessingEngine;
 }
 
 // Warning: (ae-missing-release-tag) "notFoundError" is exported by the package, but it is missing a release tag (@alpha, @beta, @public, or @internal)
@@ -1384,6 +1395,8 @@ export interface RouterOptions {
   locationService?: LocationService;
   // (undocumented)
   logger: Logger_2;
+  // (undocumented)
+  processingEngine?: CatalogProcessingEngine;
 }
 
 // Warning: (tsdoc-param-tag-missing-hyphen) The @param block should be followed by a parameter name and then a hyphen
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/DefaultCatalogProcessingEngine.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/DefaultCatalogProcessingEngine.ts
index 998acb230a..cb3a9c6e30 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/DefaultCatalogProcessingEngine.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/DefaultCatalogProcessingEngine.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import {
   EntityProvider,
   EntityProviderConnection,
   EntityProviderMutation,
-  EntityRefreshOptions,
+  CatalogProcessingEngineRefreshOptions,
 } from './types';
 
 class Connection implements EntityProviderConnection {
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ export class DefaultCatalogProcessingEngine implements CatalogProcessingEngine {
     }
   }
 
-  async refresh(options: EntityRefreshOptions) {
+  async refresh(options: CatalogProcessingEngineRefreshOptions) {
     await this.processingDatabase.transaction(async tx => {
       const { entityRefs } = await this.processingDatabase.listAncestors(tx, {
         entityRef: options.entityRef,
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/NextRouter.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/NextRouter.ts
index 03d4005769..4c8a43b10b 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/NextRouter.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/NextRouter.ts
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ import { disallowReadonlyMode, validateRequestBody } from '../service/util';
 import {
   CatalogProcessingEngine,
   LocationService,
-  EntityRefreshOptions,
+  CatalogProcessingEngineRefreshOptions,
 } from './types';
 
 export interface NextRouterOptions {
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ export async function createNextRouter(
 
   if (processingEngine) {
     router.post('/refresh', async (req, res) => {
-      const refreshOptions: EntityRefreshOptions = req.body;
+      const refreshOptions: CatalogProcessingEngineRefreshOptions = req.body;
       await processingEngine.refresh(refreshOptions);
       res.status(200).send();
     });
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/index.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/index.ts
index cdd81d9f4d..b6c973c65d 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/index.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/index.ts
@@ -28,4 +28,5 @@ export type {
   CatalogProcessingEngine,
   LocationService,
   LocationStore,
+  CatalogProcessingEngineRefreshOptions,
 } from './types';
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/types.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/types.ts
index 91c8c47fe4..6c77dab90c 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/types.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/types.ts
@@ -37,10 +37,11 @@ export interface LocationStore {
 export interface CatalogProcessingEngine {
   start(): Promise<void>;
   stop(): Promise<void>;
-  refresh(options: EntityRefreshOptions): Promise<void>;
+  refresh(options: CatalogProcessingEngineRefreshOptions): Promise<void>;
 }
 
-export type EntityRefreshOptions = { entityRef: string };
+/** @public */
+export type CatalogProcessingEngineRefreshOptions = { entityRef: string };
 
 export type EntityProviderMutation =
   | { type: 'full'; entities: DeferredEntity[] }
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/service/router.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/service/router.ts
index 6a521b4475..144dc459bb 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/service/router.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/service/router.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import { HigherOrderOperation, LocationAnalyzer } from '../ingestion/types';
 import {
   LocationService,
   CatalogProcessingEngine,
-  EntityRefreshOptions,
+  CatalogProcessingEngineRefreshOptions,
 } from '../next/types';
 import {
   basicEntityFilter,
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ export async function createRouter(
 
   if (processingEngine) {
     router.post('/refresh', async (req, res) => {
-      const refreshOptions: EntityRefreshOptions = req.body;
+      const refreshOptions: CatalogProcessingEngineRefreshOptions = req.body;
       await processingEngine.refresh(refreshOptions);
       res.status(200).send();
     });