Use cases

Fifteen concrete situations, from verifying a supplier before payment to anticipating public-contract expiries. Each page states what the routes do, what they do not do, and what the figures are worth.

• Verify a supplier before you pay them
  One call, one verdict: active company number, VAT validated live at VIES, IBAN form-checked, bank identified. No account, no API key, paid per call.
• Cross-check the identifiers printed on an invoice you received
  An invoice's VAT number can be valid at VIES yet belong to another company than the printed number. One call cross-checks all three identifiers.
• Preparing supplier master data for the French e-invoicing mandate
  Reception becomes mandatory on 1 September 2026 for every VAT-liable French company. Clean 2 to 100 suppliers per call, with per-block provenance.
• Validate an intra-community VAT number
  Live validation against VIES for every EU member state, with the consultation identifier kept as proof. An outage is never served as an invalid number.
• Assessing a customer's default risk
  A 0-100 score at ~12 months, computed at call time from filed accounts, with every component, its threshold and a confidence level.
• Monitoring a portfolio of customers or suppliers
  1 to 100 targets checked daily against official sources, for 30, 90 or 365 days. Ed25519-signed webhook, e-mail digest, and always pollable.
• Detecting insolvency proceedings
  Administration, liquidation, deregistration: by company number or by criteria. Czech, British and Latvian registers also covered.
• Comparing companies on official data
  2 to 5 companies side by side: identity, default-risk score, latest statutory accounts, alerts. A comparability block flags when the comparison is meaningless.
• Automating business verification (KYB)
  One call returns a full file on a French company: identity, officers, legal alerts, accounts, sanctions screening — each block with its provenance.
• Screening a counterparty against sanctions lists
  UN, EU, OFAC, United Kingdom, French asset freezes, Swiss SECO. Fuzzy matching with a 0-100 confidence score per hit — never a bare yes/no.
• Identifying a company's beneficial owners
  The UK PSC register and the Latvian register, live and as open data. For France, only ownership from filed articles of association is available.
• Checking a provider's authorisation
  Payment, e-money, insurance, telecoms, asset management, crypto: three official registers by company number, plus the ESMA registers by name.
• Anticipating public-contract expiries
  Buyers typically re-tender 4 to 9 months before expiry. Filter contracts ending inside your window by CPV segment and department, with the incumbent holder.
• Building a B2B prospecting list
  Multi-criteria filters over the complete registry: activity, area, legal form, workforce, age, certifications. 100 active companies per page.
• Querying European company registers
  One response shape for thirteen countries, plus what each register does not publish. Belgian, Danish, British and Swedish annual accounts.

Other sections

• Comparisons
• API reference

Volumes measured in our database on 2026-08-19.