# Colombia Company Finder: NIT, RUES, Supersociedades, Contacts (`latsouth/colombia-company-finder`) Actor

Search 1.82M Colombian companies by department, CIIU/ISIC activity and size: NIT with check digit, legal name, form, status, registration date, Supersociedades filer flag and public contacts from company websites. RUES data, CC BY-SA 4.0. Company data only.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/latsouth/colombia-company-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [LatSouth Data](https://apify.com/latsouth) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Colombia Company Finder: NIT, RUES, Supersociedades, public contacts

**By [LatSouth](https://latsouth.com).** Search **1.82 million Colombian companies** (1,816,257 NITs) from Confecámaras'
RUES registry, enriched with the Superintendencia de Sociedades filings: filter by **department, CIIU / ISIC Rev.4
activity, size, registration date and Supersociedades filer**, and get NIT with its check digit, legal name, legal form,
status and, where the company publishes them on its own website, **public company contacts** (role e-mails, company
phones, social profiles).

Company data only: never owners, legal representatives, personal mailboxes or the registry's mobile numbers.

| | |
|---|---|
| Rows | 1,816,257 NITs · **824,782** active, private, not sole-owner (the default filters) |
| Data as of | RUES 2026-10-02 · Supersociedades NIIF 2025 · public contacts fetched 2026-10-22 |
| Price | US$0.003 per company returned: **1,000 companies = US$3** |
| Typical run | about 7 s on the platform (prefilled example 6.8 s; 100 IT companies with a public contact in Bogotá + Antioquia 7.6 s) |

### Who it's for

- **Sales teams entering Colombia**: "IT companies in Bogotá registered since 2024", "medium and large Supersociedades
  filers in Antioquia", "manufacturers with a public sales e-mail".
- **Market sizing**: `OUTPUT.total_matching` counts the whole segment even when you pull a sample.
- **Lead lists**: `only_with_public_contact` keeps companies whose own website lists a role e-mail, phone or profile.

### Coverage (measured on the current release, default filters = 824,782 companies)

| Field | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| ISIC division (CIIU Rev.4 A.C.) | 824,333 | 99.9% |
| Registration date | 824,782 | 100% |
| Supersociedades filer (`supersociedades_filer`) | 28,245 | 3.4% |
| Size class (Decreto 957/2019 on Supersociedades revenue) | 38,160 | 4.6% (micro 16,550 · small 9,671 · medium 8,400 · large 3,539) |
| Street address and city | 46,192 | 5.6% (Supersociedades filers and two chambers) |
| Corporate e-mail domain | 21,971 | 2.7% |
| **Public company contact** (own website) | **7,429** | 0.9% — role e-mail 3,604 · phone 4,894 · social profile 5,463 (of 7,496 in the layer, fetched 2026-10-25) |

Software and IT services (ISIC division 62): **21,402** companies. Bogotá D.C. 275,696, Antioquia 129,745, Valle del Cauca
70,479. 178,718 were registered since 2025-01-01.

### Input examples

The Console form is prefilled with `{"isic_divisions": ["62"], "regions": ["BOGOTA_D_C"], "max_results": 10}`.

**IT companies in Bogotá and Antioquia with a public contact**

```json
{
  "isic_divisions": ["62", "63"],
  "regions": ["Bogotá D.C.", "CO-ANT"],
  "only_with_public_contact": true
}
```

**Medium and large Supersociedades filers in manufacturing, largest first**

```json
{
  "isic_sections": ["C"],
  "only_supersociedades": true,
  "size_class": ["medium", "large"],
  "sort_by": "size_desc"
}
```

**New logistics companies (CIIU 49-53) registered since 2025**

```json
{
  "activity_codes": ["49", "52"],
  "registered_after": "2025-01-01",
  "sort_by": "registration_date_desc",
  "max_results": 2000
}
```

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `regions` | Department (name with or without accents, slug, or ISO 3166-2 such as `CO-DC`, `CO-ANT`) |
| `cities` | Municipality as published (only Supersociedades filers and the Ibagué / Pereira chambers carry one) |
| `isic_sections`, `isic_divisions`, `activity_codes` | ISIC Rev.4 letter / division, or CIIU code or prefix (`6201`); combined with OR |
| `keyword` | Substring in the English or Spanish activity label or the legal / trade name |
| `size_class` | `micro`, `small`, `medium`, `large`, `unknown` |
| `registered_after`, `registered_before` | On the commercial registration date |
| `only_active`, `exclude_public_sector`, `exclude_sole_owner` | Default **true** |
| `only_supersociedades` | Only companies that file financial statements with the Superintendencia de Sociedades |
| `only_with_corporate_email_domain` | Only companies whose registered e-mail is on their own domain (the domain is returned, not the address) |
| `only_with_public_contact` | Only companies with a public role e-mail, company phone or social profile on their own website |
| `sort_by` | `size_desc` (default), `registration_date_desc`, `registration_date_asc`, `tax_id` |
| `max_results` | Default 1,000 via API |

### Output

LatSouth unified schema (same names as the [LATAM Company Finder](https://apify.com/latsouth/latam-company-finder)):
`tax_id` (NIT without check digit) and `tax_id_formatted` (`900.272.469-1`, check digit computed), `legal_name`,
`trade_name` (sigla), `legal_form`, `legal_form_normalized`, `is_active`, `status` (active, liquidation, not_renewed,
cancelled), `activity_code_local` / `activity_label_local`, `activity_label_en`, `isic_section` / `isic_division`,
`size_class`, `region` (department), `city`, `address`, `email_domain`, `has_corporate_email`, `website_guess`,
`registration_date`, `supersociedades_filer`, and the contact block `public_role_emails`, `public_phones`,
`linkedin_url`, `instagram_url`, `facebook_url`, `has_public_contact`, `contact_source_url`, `contact_fetched_at`, plus
`data_as_of`, `source`, `source_license`.

#### Public contact rules

Contacts come from the company's **own homepage** (the domain of its registered corporate e-mail), and ship only when:
the domain belongs to that single NIT (not shared by several companies, not an accountant's or agency's domain); the
e-mail is a **role mailbox** (ventas@, info@, contacto@, facturacion@...) on that domain — a person's mailbox
(juan.perez@) is never returned; the phone is in Colombia's current numbering plan (+57 3XX XXX XXXX mobile or
+57 60X XXX XXXX landline); and the value is not repeated across more than 3 websites. Sole-owner (masked) companies
never carry contacts.

### Sources, licence and attribution

Confecámaras RUES (datos.gov.co `c82u-588k`), Superintendencia de Sociedades NIIF 2025 financial statements
(`6hqw-m3dm`, `prwj-nzxa`), Cámara de Comercio de Ibagué (`gwqv-sqvs`) and de Pereira (`c35x-mutb`), all published under
**CC BY-SA 4.0**. Colombian rows, and works you derive from them, must be shared under the same licence
(<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>). Keep this credit (each row's `source` holds the datasets that
contributed to it):

> Fuente: Confecámaras - Registro Único Empresarial y Social (RUES), datos.gov.co c82u-588k (corte 2026-10-02);
> Superintendencia de Sociedades - Estados Financieros NIIF 2025, datos.gov.co 6hqw-m3dm y prwj-nzxa; Camara de Comercio
> de Ibague, datos.gov.co gwqv-sqvs (corte 2026-09-30); Camara de Comercio de Pereira, datos.gov.co c35x-mutb. Licencia
> CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Datos transformados (limpieza, normalizacion,
> etiquetas en ingles, nombres de empresas unipersonales enmascarados); no es un producto oficial de las fuentes ni
> cuenta con su respaldo.

Public contacts: LatSouth, from each company's public homepage (fetch date in `contact_fetched_at`).

### Limitations

- **City, address and size exist only for Supersociedades filers** (~29k, the larger companies) and two chambers.
  `region` is the department of the registering chamber, which matches the company's department ~95% of the time.
- Industry is exact at ISIC **division** level; Colombia's CIIU classes differ from ISIC classes, so `isic_class` is empty.
- Public contacts cover 7,429 companies today (the crawl started from registered corporate domains); coverage grows with
  each refresh. Phones are only numbers written on the page in the current national plan (mobile 3XX XXX XXXX,
  landline 60X XXX XXXX; an old-format landline is converted with the official 60 prefix).
- Registrations without a NIT (194k) are not included.

### Pricing

Pay per event: `company-result`, **US$0.003** per company row returned (1,000 = US$3). Set a maximum cost per run and the
actor stops when it is reached (`OUTPUT.stopped_by_budget`). Full files and custom segments:
<https://latsouth.com/data/colombia/>.

### Related

- [LATAM Company Finder](https://apify.com/latsouth/latam-company-finder): the same schema for 7 countries.
- [LATAM Company Enrichment](https://apify.com/latsouth/latam-company-enrichment): look up a list of NITs or domains,
  with government-contract flags (SECOP II).

### Privacy

Company data only. You are responsible for lawful use under Ley 1581 de 2012 and for honouring opt-out requests
(hello@latsouth.com). Methodology: <https://latsouth.com/methodology/> · Compliance: <https://latsouth.com/compliance/>

# Actor input Schema

## `regions` (type: `array`):

Leave empty for all of Colombia. Pick from the list, or type the name (accents optional) or the ISO 3166-2 code (e.g. CO-AMA).

## `cities` (type: `array`):

Municipality as the registry publishes it, accents optional.

## `isic_sections` (type: `array`):

ISIC Rev.4 sections (the UN industry standard every country's code was mapped to). Combined with divisions using OR.

## `isic_divisions` (type: `array`):

ISIC Rev.4 divisions, e.g. 62 = computer programming and IT consultancy, 70 = management consultancy, 46 = wholesale trade.

## `activity_codes` (type: `array`):

Native activity code or prefix, e.g. 6201 (4 digits). Combined with the ISIC filters by OR.

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Case- and accent-insensitive substring in the English and Spanish activity labels and in the company name (e.g. software, logistica, clinica).

## `size_class` (type: `array`):

Decreto 957/2019 revenue rule on Supersociedades filings; known only for filers (~2%).

## `registered_after` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD, on registration_date (commercial registration date).

## `registered_before` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD, on registration_date.

## `only_active` (type: `boolean`):

Keep companies the registry reports as active.

## `exclude_public_sector` (type: `boolean`):

Leave out government bodies, state-owned companies and international organizations.

## `exclude_sole_owner` (type: `boolean`):

Leave out sole-owner companies (EIRL, unipersonal, EIRELI) and entities whose name is a person's name. Their names are masked (\*\*\*) anyway.

## `only_supersociedades` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only companies that file financial statements with the Superintendencia de Sociedades (~29k, the larger ones): they carry size, address and city.

## `only_with_corporate_email_domain` (type: `boolean`):

Keep companies whose registered e-mail uses their own domain (Supersociedades filers). Only the domain is returned.

## `only_with_public_contact` (type: `boolean`):

Keep companies with a role e-mail (ventas@, info@...), a company phone or a social profile published on their own website.

## `sort_by` (type: `string`):

Order of results.

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

You pay per company returned (US$0.003 each: 1,000 companies = US$3). The run also stops at your spending limit. Default 1,000 when called via API without this field.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "regions": [
    "BOGOTA_D_C"
  ],
  "isic_divisions": [
    "62"
  ],
  "only_active": true,
  "exclude_public_sector": true,
  "exclude_sole_owner": true,
  "only_supersociedades": false,
  "only_with_corporate_email_domain": false,
  "only_with_public_contact": false,
  "sort_by": "size_desc",
  "max_results": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `companies` (type: `string`):

Matching companies, one item per row. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML via the dataset API.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

total_matching, rows pushed, data_as_of, attribution, applied input and whether the run stopped at the buyer's budget cap.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "regions": [
        "BOGOTA_D_C"
    ],
    "isic_divisions": [
        "62"
    ],
    "max_results": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("latsouth/colombia-company-finder").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "regions": ["BOGOTA_D_C"],
    "isic_divisions": ["62"],
    "max_results": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("latsouth/colombia-company-finder").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "regions": [
    "BOGOTA_D_C"
  ],
  "isic_divisions": [
    "62"
  ],
  "max_results": 10
}' |
apify call latsouth/colombia-company-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,latsouth/colombia-company-finder"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/StmCndkblKJd9pWGe/builds/oNf2XPvbfxiKh08fH/openapi.json