EU Company Intelligence (MCP)

What does EU Company Intelligence do?

Pass an EU company name or registration number and get back a structured company card from the best-available registry: UK Companies House (most coverage, requires free PAT), Belgium KBO (HTML scrape), or Wikidata SPARQL (universal fallback for all EU countries). Returns identity, directors, status, address, NACE/SIC codes, and incorporation date in a single MCP-friendly schema.

Free baseline (Wikidata, BE KBO scrape). UK PAT is free + instant signup at developer.company-information.service.gov.uk and unlocks rich UK data. For French companies use fr-company-intelligence-mcp (the dedicated FR actor).

Why use it from an AI agent?

• Multi-source routing - the actor picks the right registry based on input shape (UK CH number, KBO number, or free-text name).
• Wikidata fallback - no dedicated connector exists for DE / IT / ES / NL / IE / AT registries (all gated behind paid APIs), so Wikidata serves as universal coverage.
• One schema - all registries normalize to the same EuCompanyCard shape, so the agent doesn't branch on country.
• Tight payload - identity + directors + address in one call, no nested registry-specific JSON.

Modes & routing

There's no explicit mode field - the actor auto-routes based on input:

Input shape	Country hint	Path
8-digit / SC123456 / NI123456	UK or auto	UK Companies House direct lookup
10-digit (0859039965, 0859.039.965)	BE or auto	Belgium KBO direct lookup
Free-text name	UK	UK Companies House search
Free-text name	BE	Wikidata (KBO public form name search is unreliable)
Free-text name	empty (auto)	UK CH if PAT present, else Wikidata
Free-text name	DE/IT/ES/NL/IE/AT	Wikidata SPARQL

Examples

{ "query": "06989966" }

UK CH direct number lookup.

{ "query": "Revolut", "country": "UK" }

UK CH search by name (requires PAT).

{ "query": "0859.039.965", "country": "BE" }

Belgium KBO direct lookup.

{ "query": "BMW AG", "country": "DE" }

Wikidata fallback for Germany.

Output schema

{
    "meta": {
        "query": "Revolut",
        "country": "UK",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-05-08T15:00:00Z",
        "source": "uk_companies_house"
    },
    "card": {
        "name": "REVOLUT LTD",
        "officialName": "REVOLUT LTD",
        "registrationNumber": "08804411",
        "legalForm": "private-limited",
        "status": "active",
        "incorporationDate": "2013-12-09",
        "cessationDate": null,
        "address": "7 Westferry Circus, London, E14 4HD, ENGLAND",
        "country": "United Kingdom",
        "countryCode": "GB",
        "naceActivity": null,
        "sicCodes": ["64929"],
        "directors": [{ "name": "STORONSKY, Nikolay", "role": "director", "appointedOn": "2013-12-09", "nationality": null }],
        "directorsCount": 1,
        "website": null,
        "isin": null,
        "description": null,
        "industry": null,
        "source": "uk_companies_house",
        "sourceUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08804411",
        "wikidataUrl": null
    }
}

UK Companies House PAT

Free, immediate signup at https://developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/. No special scopes required - any read PAT works for public company data.

Two ways to provide it:

1. Per-call via ukCompaniesHouseToken input (encrypted by Apify).
2. Operator-scoped via UK_COMPANIES_HOUSE_TOKEN env var.

Without a PAT the actor still works for non-UK queries via Wikidata + KBO.

Pricing (PPE)

Mode	Price per call
All paths	$0.001 actor start + $0.005 EU company card = $0.006/call

Coverage by country (v0.1)

Country	Path	Quality
UK	UK Companies House (free, PAT-gated)	Excellent (full directors, filings, history)
BE	KBO HTML scrape	Good (identity + status + NACE)
DE	Wikidata	Identity-level (name, founded, HQ, industry)
IT	Wikidata	Identity-level
ES	Wikidata	Identity-level
NL	Wikidata (KvK gated)	Identity-level
IE	Wikidata (CRO paid)	Identity-level
AT	Wikidata	Identity-level
FR	Use fr-company-intelligence-mcp instead	n/a

Limits

• Wikidata only has data for companies notable enough to be on Wikipedia/Wikidata (~30k EU companies). For SMBs and recent startups outside UK/BE, expect not_found.
• Belgium KBO scrape is HTML-based; if KBO changes their template the parser breaks until updated.
• UK Companies House PAT rate-limit: 600 requests per 5 minutes. Reasonable for agent loops.
• No FR coverage - delegate to the dedicated fr-company-intelligence-mcp actor.

Pairs naturally with

• fr-company-intelligence-mcp for French companies (covers what this actor doesn't)
• web-company-intelligence-mcp for web fingerprint / tech stack on the same company's domain
• domain-intelligence-mcp for domain registration data

Sources, freshness, legality

• UK Companies House - official UK government registry, public open data API.
• Wikidata - Wikimedia's open knowledge base, CC0 licensed.
• KBO - Belgian official enterprise registry, public consultation portal.
• All data exposed is publicly available regulatory information. No personal data beyond what's already published in the public registers.