- German leads with a short or common name are now found. "Henkel AG" used
to come back as an ambiguous match on an angling club. The Handelsregister
sorts its answer by name, not by relevance, and the actor read only the first
25 rows: for "Henkel" those run from "Aberna Verwaltungs GmbH" to "Henkel &
Gerlach GmbH & Co.", while Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Düsseldorf, HRB 4724) is row
32. The actor now reads the register's whole answer in one page — 100 rows,
the most it returns for any search — without a single extra request.
- German matching understands legal forms. A register entry now has to be
the company you named before the usual name score is even computed: the same
name proper with every legal-form word you typed ("Henkel AG", "Henkel KGaA"
and plain "Henkel" all reach Henkel AG & Co. KGaA), or a name that starts
with, contains or shares most words with yours. An entry that merely shares
one word — "Angelsportverein Henkel", "Henkel Agrar GmbH" for "Henkel AG" —
is never the match and no longer shows up among the alternatives.
- A conflicting legal form is a different company. "Henkel SE" no longer
matches Henkel AG & Co. KGaA or Henkel GmbH. The row is a no-match and
registryNote names the company registered under the other form, so a lead
whose company changed its legal form stays easy to fix. This is stricter than
before: German leads that only matched across two different legal forms
("Muster AG" against "Muster GmbH") now read as not found.
- A not-found off a cut list says so. The register stops at 100 hits. When
it did and nothing on the list matched, the verdict is "Not confirmed — too
many similar names in the register; add the register number or the full legal
name" instead of "Not found in the company register", the new field
registryHitLimitReached is true, registryNote explains it, and the run
status counts those leads apart from the ones genuinely not found.
- Names typed without umlauts keep matching: the register itself treats "ue"
as "ü" ("Wuerth Elektronik" finds Würth Elektronik), and so does the match.
- France and the United Kingdom are unchanged.
- Every run now sets a status message you can read straight from the run list.
The run used to end with a bare exit: the whole summary went to the log and to
the SUMMARY record, so from the run list a run that checked 900 leads against
SIRENE looked exactly like one whose every register call errored out.
- A run where the register never answered for a single lead is now reported as a
source outage and ends red, instead of shipping a list of "not found in the
register" rows. "Not registered under this name" is an answer we sell; "the
register did not answer" is not, and the two are now told apart by a counter
rather than by the absence of one. Wording lives in one pure, unit-tested
function (
src/status.js).
- README states the price ($0.02 per lead verified, $0.01 per run start),
documents
minMatchScore (and the 86 recommended for directory and Google
Maps exports), and names the checkInsolvency / screenSanctions toggles.
Three matcher fixes, all of which made real companies read as "Not found in the
company register".
- France: the register full-text-searches the registered name and keeps the
legal form as a numeric code, so a lead written the way a CRM writes it —
"Doctolib SAS" — returned nothing at all while "Doctolib" resolves to SIREN
794598813. The search now retries without the legal form when the first
attempt finds nothing.
- United Kingdom: the Companies House name filter is a literal
contains-match, and the query was being stripped of its punctuation first, so
"Asos.com Limited" was searched for as "asos com" and found nothing. Dot-com
brands now keep their dots and match (ASOS.COM LIMITED, 03584121).
- Scoring: a sole trader whose shopfront sign copies a famous brand could
tie the real company that is actually registered under that name, and the
result was reported as too ambiguous to call. A registered legal name now
outranks a trading-name alias by a small margin, which is enough to break the
tie without breaking the companies that genuinely trade under another name
(BlaBlaCar is registered as COMUTO and still matches).
First release.
- Verifies a B2B lead list against the official company registers of France
(SIRENE / RNE), the United Kingdom (Companies House) and Germany
(Handelsregister).
- Checks every matched company for insolvency in BODACC, The Gazette and
Insolvenzbekanntmachungen, with the date, the court and a link to the notice.
- Screens companies and their directors against the OFAC SDN, UN, EU, UK OFSI
and US Consolidated Screening lists, downloaded fresh on every run.
- Returns a confidence score from 0 to 100 with its full reasoning, so you can
see exactly why a lead scored what it scored.
- Takes a pasted list, an Apify dataset ID from another scraper, or a link to a
CSV export.
- No API key required. A Companies House key is optional and adds SIC codes and
richer UK status data.
