Finland Companies & New Business Monitor: PRH YTJ (MCP)

Every Finnish company — fresh from the official source. Search the Finnish Business Register (PRH / YTJ v3) by name or business ID, or monitor newly registered companies daily with industry and city filters. No key, no login, MCP-compatible, agent-ready.

Why this data is hard (and useful)

• Finland's official register (avoindata.prh.fi, open-data YTJ v3) returns deeply nested JSON: versioned name histories, trilingual descriptions (Finnish/Swedish/English), TOL2008 industry codes, address objects with municipality codes, and register-entry types that need decoding. This actor collapses all of it into one clean row per company.
• Companies register at ~35 per day — a constant stream of fresh B2B leads that no search engine catches quickly.
• Name-history versioning is the classic trap: companies rebrand, and the register keeps every historical name. We select the current official name (with fallbacks for renamed/closed entities) so you always match the right entity.

What you get per company

field	meaning
businessId	Finnish Y-tunnus (e.g. 0194099-3) — permanent unique ID, our dedupe key
companyName	current official name
legalForm / legalFormCode	e.g. Limited company (EN preferred, FI/SV fallback)
industryCode / industryText	TOL2008 code + description (e.g. 86950 physiotherapy)
street, postCode, city, municipalityCode	registered address (city name in Finnish when available)
registryStatus, registeredAt, endedAt	status + lifecycle dates
registeredEntries, situations	register entries (e.g. Registered) + special situations (liquidation, bankruptcy…)
website, phone, email	contact details when the company published them (often unset — we never invent values)
lastModifiedAt	register-side change timestamp

Mode search

{ "mode": "search", "query": "Nokia", "maxResults": 10 }

• Free-text name search (handles the register's fuzzy matching) or exact business ID 0112038-9.
• Charged $0.001 per company row.

Mode monitor — new Finnish companies, daily

{ "mode": "monitor", "industryPrefix": "62", "cityContains": "Helsinki", "maxResults": 40 }

• Run 1 = free baseline (info row only): saves a date cursor.
• Run 2+: only companies registered since the cursor, deduped by business ID. Optional filters: TOL2008 prefix (62 IT, 47 retail, 86 health…) and city ("Helsinki", "Tampere"…).
• Schedule daily; a no-news run costs $0.001 total. Feed Slack / Google Sheets / your CRM via webhook.

Three ready recipes

1. Sales-agent daily fuel — as an MCP tool, your agent asks "any new IT companies in Finland this week?" and gets official, deduped rows with industry and city — a lead list no one else has yet.
2. Counterparty/ KYB check — agent receives a Finnish business ID, pulls the official row (legal form, status, situations incl. bankruptcy, address) before a deal.
3. Market radar — daily monitor of a niche (e.g. industryPrefix: "56" restaurants in Tampere) to watch local competition appear in real time.

Data honesty & limits

• The register only contains what companies declare: website/phone/email are often empty and are reported exactly as published (empty = not provided, not hidden).
• situations reflects register entries; absence does not guarantee a company is healthy — for credit decisions use an authorized credit agency.
• The actor reads the public open-data API only (no login areas, no personal data beyond what the register itself publishes).

Source (official, anonymous, no key)

• Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) — Open Data YTJ v3: https://avoindata.prh.fi (companies endpoint)

Price

event	price
Actor start	$0.001
Company row extracted (search match or new registration)	$0.001 / row

Typical runs: 10-company search ≈ $0.011 · daily new-companies radar with 8 matches ≈ $0.009.

MCP / AI-agent usage

Add the actor to your agent's tools, or call:

https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_HANDLE~finland-companies-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN

Input = the JSON examples above. Output = the dataset rows described in the table. Compatible with per-request agentic payments.

Questions / feedback: see the actor's Issues tab on Apify Store.