Colombia Company Check (NIT)

Check legal entities in Colombia by their NIT (tax identification number of the legal entity) in one call and get a clean English JSON answer with red flags, source attribution and a date on every field. Built for AI agents (MCP) and for KYB / AML onboarding, counterparty and supplier due diligence, vendor risk and compliance checks.

• One number → one answer from official open registers plus GLEIF Global LEI Index: Level 1 (LEI-CDF), Level 2 (RR-CDF), Reporting Exceptions and Official sanctions lists: US OFAC (SDN and Consolidated non-SDN), EU consolidated financial sanctions (FSF), UK Sanctions List (FCDO) — legal entities only.
• One schema for every country: the same fields and flags whether you check one Colombia company or a thousand — your agent parses one format.
• Agent-ready: an MCP server (Streamable HTTP, /mcp) with check_company, check_companies and list_sources, a plain GET /check?country=&id= endpoint, and classic batch runs (list of numbers → dataset).
• Change history: registers publish only the current state; we keep our own snapshots, so every answer shows what was added or removed since history_since (e.g. a status change or a new sanctions listing).
• Pay per check (one charge per company answered; the price is on the Pricing tab), no subscription. Malformed numbers, sole traders and individuals are not charged. In Standby (MCP / HTTP) mode Apify also bills the small platform usage of the server run, as for every Standby Actor. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify to cap spending: when it is reached, the Actor returns an error instead of data.

What we check

Source	Licence	Publisher updates
Confecámaras / RUES: Registro Mercantil open-data extract — legal entities and non-profit entities of Colombia's 57 chambers of commerce, live and cancelled (monthly) (CO)	CC BY-SA 4.0	monthly
GLEIF Global LEI Index: Level 1 (LEI-CDF), Level 2 (RR-CDF), Reporting Exceptions	CC0 1.0	daily
Official sanctions lists: US OFAC (SDN and Consolidated non-SDN), EU consolidated financial sanctions (FSF), UK Sanctions List (FCDO) — legal entities only	Several, see Data licences	daily

Data refreshed at least weekly (from the latest published files: the Colombia register is published monthly, so its data can be up to a month old); every field carries its source date (provenance), and every answer lists each source with the date it was loaded (sources[].loaded_at; list_sources is free).

flags — true is a red flag: not_found (the number is not in the register dump), not_active, insolvency, liquidation, sanctions (match by registration number or LEI), sanctions_name_match (same name, same country: verify manually). false means there is no record in the loaded snapshot — it is not a clean bill of health. null means unknown. Call list_sources (free) for load times.

Colombia: The open RUES extract covers legal entities registered with Colombia's 57 chambers of commerce (companies, branches of foreign companies, non-profit entities and cooperatives), live and cancelled. Public bodies, condominiums (propiedad horizontal), churches, unions, schools and other NIT holders outside the commercial register are not covered: no record here means unknown, not fictitious. Entities registered under a personal ID number (cédula) are not returned. Insolvency: only a flag from the company name (Ley 1116), no insolvency register. A valid NIT without a record therefore returns not_found: null (unknown, not fictitious) and is not charged.

Colombia — licence. Responses of this Actor for Colombia are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fuente: Portal de Datos Abiertos www.datos.gov.co — Confecámaras / RUES dataset c82u-588k; the dataset update date is in every response (extra.snapshot_date, extra.attribution, sources[].loaded_at). Changes: natural persons excluded; personal ID numbers removed from company names; legal representatives not included; one record per NIT; statuses mapped to a common scale and form codes translated to English; liquidation and insolvency flags read from the company name. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of Colombia, the chambers of commerce (RUES/Confecámaras) or MinTIC.

Colombia notes. Pass the NIT with or without its check digit (899999068-1, 899999068); the response id is always <base>-<check digit>. status comes from the registration state (estado de la matrícula): ACTIVA → active; cancelled (incl. cancelled under Law 1429 for not renewing, by merger) → dissolved; inactive → inactive; a registration closed because the company moved to another chamber with no newer record → unknown. Insolvency flag from the company name (Ley 1116): Colombian law requires a company in liquidation to add en liquidación to its name, and one in a Law 1116 procedure en reorganización / en liquidación judicial; we read these suffixes into flags.liquidation and flags.insolvency (true), otherwise null — the register extract has no insolvency field and no insolvency register is connected. Country flags (true = red, null if not live): renewal_overdue (the yearly renewal of the registration, due by 31 March, was not made for the current year — after 5 years without renewal a company is dissolved by law), term_expired (the company's duration in its by-laws has ended — a legal cause for dissolution). address is not in the extract: the registering chamber of commerce is in extra.chamber. Natural persons (merchants registered under their own ID) are not returned at all, and neither are entities registered under a personal ID number (cédula) — only standard legal-entity NITs (9 digits starting with 8 or 9) are returned.

Identifiers

Country	Identifier	Format	Example
Colombia (CO)	NIT (tax identification number of the legal entity)	NIT: 9 digits plus the check digit, e.g. 899999068-1 (the check digit may be omitted; dots, spaces and a 'NIT' prefix are ignored)	899999068-1

Spaces and dashes are accepted; send the number without a country prefix. Legal entities only: sole traders and other natural persons are not supported, not stored and not charged. No data about people (officers, owners, contacts) is ever returned; addresses are city level only.

Input

{
  "country": "CO",
  "ids": [
    "899999068-1"
  ]
}

Up to 10,000 numbers per run.

Output (one dataset item per company, shortened)

{
  "country": "CO",
  "id": "899999068-1",
  "id_scheme": "CO-NIT",
  "name": "…",
  "status": "active",
  "legal_form": {
    "code": "…",
    "name": "…",
    "name_en": "…"
  },
  "address": {
    "city": "…",
    "country": "CO"
  },
  "flags": {
    "not_found": false,
    "not_active": false,
    "insolvency": false,
    "liquidation": false,
    "sanctions": false,
    "sanctions_name_match": false
  },
  "provenance": {
    "status": {
      "source": "register",
      "as_of": "2026-11-05T03:00:00+00:00"
    }
  },
  "history": [],
  "history_since": "2026-11-05",
  "sources": [
    {
      "key": "register",
      "title": "…",
      "license": "…",
      "loaded_at": "…"
    }
  ],
  "disclaimer": "… Not legal advice."
}

Use from an AI agent (MCP)

Add the Actor as a remote MCP server: https://kyb-data--colombia-company-check.apify.actor/mcp with your Apify token, or through mcp.apify.com. Tools: check_company(company_id, country), check_companies(company_ids, country) (up to 50), list_sources().

Data licences

All data comes from official open sources under open licences; attribution (title, dataset URL, licence, loaded_at) is included in the sources field of every answer.

• Confecámaras / RUES: Registro Mercantil open-data extract — legal entities and non-profit entities of Colombia's 57 chambers of commerce, live and cancelled (monthly): CC BY-SA 4.0 (dataset licence on datos.gov.co: "Creative Commons Attribution | Share Alike 4.0 International", read 2026-11-08). Fuente: Portal de Datos Abiertos www.datos.gov.co (Confecámaras / RUES; dataset update date: extra.snapshot_date). Responses of this Actor for Colombia are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.; publisher's terms: https://herramientas.datos.gov.co/terminos; modified: natural persons excluded; personal ID numbers removed from company names ("[ID removed]"); legal representatives not included; one record per NIT chosen among chambers; statuses mapped to a common scale; legal-form codes translated to English; liquidation and insolvency flags read from the company name (Ley 1116)
• GLEIF Global LEI Index: Level 1 (LEI-CDF), Level 2 (RR-CDF), Reporting Exceptions: CC0 1.0 (GLEIF LEI Data Terms of Use, II.3: "The data available through the Access Service are provided under the CC0 licence"; read 2026-11-05)
• Official sanctions lists: US OFAC (SDN and Consolidated non-SDN), EU consolidated financial sanctions (FSF), UK Sanctions List (FCDO) — legal entities only: OFAC: US government work, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105); EU FSF: © European Union, reuse authorised with acknowledgement (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU, CC BY 4.0); UK: contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (FCDO) (licence text: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3)

Disclaimer

Data from official open registers and official sanctions lists, as attributed in sources, as of the load date shown. Registers can be incomplete or late. Not legal advice — verify important decisions with the original register.