Norwegian Company Lookup - Official Registry Data (Brønnøysund)

Verified official source - never hallucinated. This Actor answers Norwegian company questions with registry data fetched from Brønnøysundregistrene (the Brønnøysund Register Centre) at lookup time - not with an AI model's guess and not with a scraped snapshot of somebody's website.

Why this Actor?

LLMs and AI agents hallucinate Norwegian company facts just as happily as any others: made-up organisation numbers, wrong legal status, and no knowledge of last month's bankruptcies. Generic AI web search is not much better - it summarises whatever page ranks first, which may be stale, unofficial or plain wrong. This Actor gives your agent (or workflow) a deterministic, verifiable lookup against Brønnøysundregistrene - the Norwegian company register - via its official open API (the Central Coordinating Register, "Enhetsregisteret").

• No AI in the loop. Pure, predictable data lookup. Same input, same output, every time.
• No scraping. Official open API only - stable fields, no broken selectors, no terms-of-service grey zones.
• Fresh at the source. Registry data at lookup time, not training-data time.
• Live from day one. The Norwegian register requires no API key at all.
• GDPR-safe by design (see below).

Features

• Look up any Norwegian limited company by organisation number (organisasjonsnummer), with or without spaces, up to 50 per run. The VAT format NO 923 609 016 MVA is also accepted.
• Check if a Norwegian company is active - current registry status, including bankruptcy (konkurs) and deregistered (slettet) states, each with the registry's own status date.
• Get the NACE industry code of a Norwegian company together with its plain-text industry description.
• Verify a Norwegian organisation number - the official modulus-11 checksum is validated before any lookup, so typos never reach the API and are never charged.
• Find the registered office and registration date of any Norwegian limited company (aksjeselskap/allmennaksjeselskap).
• Optional key financials from the latest filed annual report (open Regnskapsregisteret data): fiscal year, currency, revenue, operating result, net result, equity and total assets - included at no extra event charge.
• Company name search - find an organisation number when you only know the name, restricted to limited companies only.

Use cases

• KYB / know-your-business checks: verify that a Norwegian counterparty exists, is active and is what it claims to be, before onboarding.
• AI agents that must not hallucinate: give Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP/tool-calling agent a grounded source for Norwegian company facts.
• Nordic supply-chain vetting: Nordic groups usually have entities in several countries - combine this Actor with its Swedish and Finnish siblings to screen the whole chain in one workflow.
• Quick financial screening: pull headline revenue and net result from the latest annual report without opening a PDF.
• CRM enrichment and data cleaning: batch-verify organisation numbers and refresh status, industry and registered office for existing records.
• Compliance workflows: document that a fact came from the official register, with source and retrieval date on every row.

Input

{
    "organisationNumbers": ["923 609 016", "883409442"],
    "includeFinancials": true
}

Up to 50 numbers per run, with or without spaces. Numbers are validated with the official modulus-11 check before any lookup - typos never reach the API.

Output (dataset items)

{
    "input": "923 609 016",
    "ok": true,
    "orgNumber": "923 609 016",
    "name": "EQUINOR ASA",
    "status": "Aktivt",
    "legalForm": "Allmennaksjeselskap",
    "legalFormCode": "ASA",
    "naceCode": "06.100",
    "naceText": "Utvinning av råolje",
    "registeredOffice": "STAVANGER",
    "registrationDate": "1995-03-12",
    "financials": {
        "fiscalYear": "2024-01-01 - 2024-12-31",
        "currency": "USD",
        "revenue": 72543000000.0,
        "netResult": 8141000000.0,
        "equity": 41090000000.0
    },
    "source": "Brønnøysundregistrene, Enhetsregisteret (data.brreg.no), NLOD",
    "sourceDate": "2026-07-11"
}

Invalid numbers, sole proprietorships and companies that are not found come back as items with ok: false and an explanation - and are never charged. The run itself still succeeds, so your pipeline never breaks on a bad input row.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

Event	Price	When
company-lookup	$0.006	Per successful lookup only (financials included)

That is ~$6 per 1,000 companies. Failed validations, GDPR-rejected entities and not-found results are free. No subscription, no minimum, no rental fee.

FAQ

Is there a free API for Norwegian company data? Brønnøysundregistrene's open API is free at the source, but you still need input validation, checksum logic, status decoding and GDPR filtering. This Actor packages all of that into one call at $0.006 per company - you pay for the plumbing, not the data.

How do I check if a Norwegian company is bankrupt? Run its organisation number through this Actor and read the status field, which reflects the register at lookup time - including bankruptcy and deregistration, each with the registry's own date.

Does it work with sole proprietorships (enkeltpersonforetak)? No, by design. A sole proprietorship's registered name is usually the owner's personal name, which is personal data under GDPR. Such entities are always rejected with a clear explanation, and you are not charged.

What do the financials contain? Headline figures from the latest annual report filed in the open Regnskapsregisteret: fiscal year, currency (note: can be USD for some groups), revenue, operating result, net result, equity and total assets. No figures are guessed - if no annual report is on file, the field is simply absent.

Can my AI agent use this? Yes - that is the primary design goal. Call it from any agent framework via the Apify API or via MCP. The output is small, flat JSON that fits comfortably in an agent's context window.

How fresh is the data? Every lookup goes to the registry API at run time. You get what Brønnøysundregistrene has right now, not what a model memorised during training.

Why should I trust these results over an AI web search? Because nothing here is generated. Every field is copied from the official register and every row carries source and sourceDate, so the answer is auditable.

GDPR & privacy by design

This Actor handles legal entities only:

• Sole proprietorships (enkeltpersonforetak) are always rejected - their registered name is usually the owner's personal name (personal data under GDPR).
• Board members, managing directors (daglig leder) and any other natural persons are never returned. The output is a strict allowlist of company-level fields.
• Only limited companies (AS/ASA) are supported in v1.

Permissions & security

This Actor runs with Apify's limited permissions model: it reads its own input, writes to its own default dataset and calls the official registry API over HTTPS - nothing else. It requests no access to your other Actors, storages or account data. No API key or login is needed anywhere in the chain.

Data source & license

Data comes from Brønnøysundregistrene (the Brønnøysund Register Centre): the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities (Enhetsregisteret) and the open part of the Register of Company Accounts (Regnskapsregisteret). Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by Brønnøysundregistrene. Licence: https://data.norge.no/nlod/ · Source: https://data.brreg.no. This Actor is independent and not affiliated with, approved by or endorsed by Brønnøysundregistrene. Registry data may contain errors or lag; always verify critical facts directly at brreg.no before acting on them.

Terms of use

• Business use only. This Actor is intended exclusively for use in the course of business (B2B). By using it you confirm you are acting as a business, not a consumer.
• As is. The service and all data are provided "as is", without warranties of any kind - no guarantee of accuracy, completeness, timeliness or availability.
• Liability cap. Total aggregate liability for all claims in any 12-month period is limited to the amount you paid for the service in that period. No liability for indirect or consequential damages, lost profits or lost data. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
• Fair use. No bulk re-selling of raw data, no circumventing rate limits, no use that violates the NLOD licence (including misleading presentation of the data or implying endorsement).

Versioning & support

Versions are locked - the Actor never silently changes behaviour under you. Changes are released as new versions with a changelog entry.

Part of the Nordic Data Tools family: Swedish company lookup, company financials, new company registrations, procurement search, official statistics, Finnish company lookup and EU contract award lookup - all built on official Nordic and EU data sources.

Changelog

• 0.1 - initial release: status (incl. bankruptcy, deregistration), legal form, NACE industry code, registered office, registration date for Norwegian limited companies (AS/ASA), optional key financials from the latest annual report. Pay-per-event pricing.