Agentic Firmenbuch Lets A.I. Assistants Query Austria’s Company Register
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Agentic Firmenbuch lets Claude and other A.I. tools query Austria’s company register in plain language. It started as open source, and now it’s a paid product with credits and subscriptions.
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A Vienna builder has turned Austria’s company register into something an A.I. assistant can actually talk to. With Agentic Firmenbuch, Jakob Neugebauer lets users ask plain-language questions and get back company lists with source references, instead of digging through balance sheets by hand.
The project began at the end of June as a free, open-source MCP server. Since then, it has moved into paid territory with a web app, subscriptions and a separate offering for business customers. The legal notice names Neugebauer as the operator, and the site doesn’t list a separate company or outside investors.
The data itself comes from a public source: Austria’s Ministry of Justice publishes the Firmenbuch, including annual financial statements, under a CC BY 4.0 license. Agentic Firmenbuch processes that material, calculates ratios like equity, debt, margins and growth, and makes it searchable. The site says its database covers about 350,000 Austrian companies, with daily updates for new registrations, deletions and capital changes. Financial ratios go back to fiscal year 2022, while older years remain as original PDFs.
There’s also a German side to it. The system includes about 1.63 million companies from the German commercial register, but only master data for now. Financial figures are being piloted for selected regions. Neugebauer doesn’t promise completeness, either; if there’s a dispute, the official register wins.
Connecting it to tools like Claude, Cursor, VS Code and Claude Code is meant to be simple. Claude users can add the server via the directory or by entering mcp.agentic-firmenbuch.at/mcp, then sign in with an email code. No API key is needed for that flow. GitHub Copilot is listed as compatible too, and custom agents can use an API key from the web app.
Billing is credit-based. The site says a typical research query costs three to six credits, or about 30 to 60 cents, and failed queries are free. Free trial users get 50 credits for 90 days, while paid plans start at €50 for 500 credits and run up to €3,000 for 50,000 credits. The audience here is obvious enough: M&A advisers, investors, sales teams and market researchers who’d rather ask than scroll.
Neugebauer is not alone, of course. The research tool firmenbuch.ai, run by winkk GmbH, also uses the ministry’s register data and offers MCP access for A.I. agents. And the older guard is still there too — Compass, KSV1870 and North Data have been selling company data for years. The A.I. layer is the new trick, but the underlying business is the same old hunger for better company data.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the sensible kind of A.I. product: not a chatbot pretending to be a lawyer, just a search layer over public records. That’s the pattern worth watching in Europe — less grand model theatre, more useful plumbing. The hype crowd hates it because it looks boring, which is usually a good sign.
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