Swedish Company Lookup (Bolagsverket)

Verified official source - never hallucinated. This Actor answers company questions with registry data fetched from Bolagsverket (the Swedish Companies Registration Office) 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 routinely hallucinate Swedish company facts: made-up organisation numbers, wrong legal status, and no knowledge of yesterday'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 the official Swedish company register, via Bolagsverket's open API for high-value datasets.

Features

• Look up any Swedish company by org number (organisationsnummer), with or without hyphen, up to 50 per run.
• Check if a Swedish company is active - current registry status, including bankruptcy and liquidation states.
• Get the SNI industry code of a Swedish company together with its plain-text industry description.
• Verify a Swedish organisation number - built-in checksum (Luhn) validation rejects invalid numbers before any lookup is charged.
• Find the registered office and registration date of any Swedish limited company (aktiebolag).
• Official Bolagsverket registry data - no scraping, no third-party databases, no AI in the loop. Same input, same output, every time.
• GDPR-safe company data API - legal entities only, personal data is rejected at the gate (see below).

Use cases

• KYB / know-your-business checks: verify that a 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 Swedish company facts.
• CRM enrichment and data cleaning: batch-verify org numbers and refresh status, industry and registered office for existing records.
• Due diligence and supplier vetting: a deterministic first screen before you pay for a full credit report.
• Compliance workflows: document that a fact came from the official register, with source and retrieval date on every row.

Input

{
    "organisationNumbers": ["556999-9997", "559999-9991", "556999-9989"]
}

Up to 50 numbers per run, with or without hyphen.

Output (dataset items)

{
    "input": "556999-9997",
    "ok": true,
    "orgNumber": "556999-9997",
    "name": "Testbolaget Exempel AB",
    "status": "Aktivt",
    "legalForm": "Aktiebolag",
    "sniCode": "62010",
    "sniText": "Dataprogrammering",
    "registeredOffice": "Stockholm",
    "registrationDate": "2015-03-12",
    "source": "Bolagsverket, API för värdefulla datamängder",
    "sourceDate": "2026-07-10",
    "dataMode": "LIVE"
}

Invalid numbers 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

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

FAQ

Is there a free API for Swedish company data? Bolagsverket's high-value dataset API is free at the source, but you need a registered client, OAuth handling, rate-limit discipline 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 Swedish 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 liquidation states.

Does it work with sole traders (enskild firma)? No, by design. A sole trader's organisation number is the owner's personal identity number, which is personal data under GDPR. Such numbers are always rejected with a clear explanation, and you are not charged.

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 Bolagsverket 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 traders are always rejected - their organisation number is the owner's personal identity number (personal data under GDPR).
• Board members, directors and any other natural persons are never returned. The output is a strict allowlist of company-level fields.
• Only limited companies (aktiebolag) 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.

Data source & license

Data comes from Bolagsverket (Swedish Companies Registration Office), API for high-value datasets. Free of charge under EU Implementing Regulation 2023/138 on high-value datasets - the license permits reuse, including commercial reuse. This Actor is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Bolagsverket. Registry data may contain errors or lag; always verify critical facts directly at bolagsverket.se 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 Bolagsverket's terms.

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 Swedish Data Tools family: company lookup, company financials, new company registrations, public procurement search and official statistics - all built on official Swedish and EU data sources.

Changelog

• 0.1 - initial release: status, legal form, SNI, registered office, registration date for Swedish limited companies. Pay-per-event pricing.