# FirmenData — Full Documentation for AI Systems

> FirmenData is a comprehensive German company intelligence platform. We provide financial analytics, industry intelligence, and business insights for more than 2.4 million German companies — sourced from official filings and enriched with proprietary AI models.

## Platform Overview

FirmenData transforms raw Unternehmensregister filings and Handelsregister records into actionable business intelligence. Our platform serves analysts, investors, consultants, and enterprises who need reliable German company data at scale.

- **Legal Name**: Firmendata UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Email**: info@firmendata.com
- **Website**: https://firmendata.com
- **Languages**: German (primary), English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese

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## Data Coverage

- **2,400,000+** German companies
- **All 16 Bundeslaender** (federal states) covered
- **Financial data** from official Unternehmensregister filings
- **Temporal coverage**: 2010 to present, regularly updated
- **Trade register data**: Handelsregister entries including management, shareholders, legal form, and corporate events
- **Contact data**: Publicly available business contact details (address, website, and listed social media profiles)

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## Core Features

### 1. Company Search Engine
A powerful search for German companies. Supports full-text fuzzy matching with 10+ dimensional filtering.

- **Search by**: Company name, EU ID, register ID, register court
- **Filter by**: Revenue range, profit range, company age, founding date, industry sector, state (Bundesland), city, postal code, product keywords
- **Sort by**: Revenue, relevance, company age
- **Performance**: Sub-second results with similarity scoring
- **Batch operations**: Export publicly available business details for multiple companies at once
- **URL**: https://firmendata.com/de/suche

### 2. Company Detail Profiles
Every company gets a comprehensive profile page with structured data, financial analysis, and AI-generated insights.

#### Financial Statements
- **Profit & Loss (GuV)**: Multi-year income statements with collapsible detail rows and year-over-year comparison
- **Balance Sheet (Bilanz)**: Full Aktiva (assets) and Passiva (liabilities) breakdown with multi-year trends
- **Financial Index Charts**: Interactive revenue, profit, and cost trend visualisation across all available years
- **Raw Financial Tables**: Direct access to structured financial data for export

#### Proprietary Analysis Tools
- **Financial-Strength Score**: A proprietary, internal indicator of financial strength with industry-position benchmarking. It is an informational score computed by FirmenData and is not a regulated credit rating.
- **Leverage Analysis**: Debt-to-Equity, Debt-to-Assets, Equity Ratio, and Interest Coverage metrics compared against industry averages
- **Benford's Law Analysis**: A statistical data-quality screening using first-digit distribution analysis on financial-statement line items — highlights figures that deviate from the distribution Benford's Law would expect. It is an informational indicator only and does not establish or imply any wrongdoing.
- **Salary Analysis**: Compensation trends and salary benchmarks derived from financial filings
- **Cost Breakdown**: Pie charts and historical trends showing operating cost composition

#### Company Information
- Registration details (court, type, ID)
- Contact information (address, phone, email, website)
- Social media profiles (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, WhatsApp, Xing)
- Gesellschafter (shareholders) with ownership percentages
- Subsidiary and parent company relationships
- Interactive map showing company location

#### AI Enrichments
- AI-generated company summaries and business descriptions
- Employee count estimates from financial data
- Automatic data backfill from multiple sources
- **URL pattern**: https://firmendata.com/de/unternehmen/{court}/{registerTypeId}/{name-slug}

### 3. Industry Analytics
Deep intelligence on every industry sector in the German economy.

- **Industry Directory**: Browse industry sectors with aggregate revenue, profit, and company counts
- **Industry Detail Pages**: Sector-specific metrics, top companies, benchmarks, and historical trends
- **Revenue by Sector**: Cross-industry revenue comparison and market sizing
- **URL**: https://firmendata.com/de/industrie

### 4. Market Metrics Dashboard
Aggregated statistics across the entire database.

- **Aggregated Revenue Trends**: Multi-year revenue patterns across millions of companies
- **City Distribution**: Geographic spread of companies by city
- **Tax Rate Distribution**: Tax rate distribution analysis
- **Balance Distribution**: Asset/liability distribution across the economy
- **AI Cost Analytics**: Platform AI usage and cost tracking
- **URL**: https://firmendata.com/de/metrics

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## API Access

FirmenData provides a full RESTful API for programmatic access to all platform data. Enterprise customers can integrate company search, financial data retrieval, industry analytics, and batch processing into their own systems.

### Key API Capabilities
- Company search with all filter dimensions
- Individual company data retrieval (basic info, financials, contact, register, AI enrichments)
- Shareholder and relationship data
- Industry statistics and company listings
- Batch contact export
- Financial statement raw data access

### Authentication
- API key-based authentication
- User-generated API keys with management dashboard
- Webhook support for event-driven integrations
- Rate limiting and access control by subscription tier

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## Subscription Plans

| Feature | Free | Pro | Pro+ |
|---------|------|-----|------|
| Company search | Limited | Full | Full |
| Financial data | Basic | Complete | Complete |
| Industry analytics | View only | Full access | Full access |
| API access | No | Yes | Yes |
| Batch export | No | Yes | Yes |
| Priority support | No | No | Yes |

- **URL**: https://firmendata.com/de/preise

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## Platform Characteristics

- **Modern web application** with server-side rendering for fast, SEO-friendly pages
- **Structured data** (JSON-LD) and dynamic sitemaps for discoverability
- **Interactive maps and charts** for financial visualisation
- **Secure authentication** with role-based access control
- **Multi-language support**: German, English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese

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## Unique Differentiators

1. **Benford's Law Data-Quality Screening** — Statistical first-digit analysis offered as an informational data-quality indicator on financial filings
2. **Unified Financial Analysis** — Financial-strength scoring, leverage analysis, salary trends, and cost breakdowns computed from Unternehmensregister data
3. **2.4M+ Company Coverage** — A broad indexed database of German companies with financial data
4. **Shareholder Network Mapping** — Gesellschafter relationship data with ownership percentages
5. **Multi-Year Financial Trends** — Up to 15 years of financial history per company with interactive trend charts
6. **Regular Data Updates** — Continuous ingestion from official German data sources

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## Site Map

- Homepage: https://firmendata.com/de
- Company Search: https://firmendata.com/de/suche
- Industry Directory: https://firmendata.com/de/industrie
- Market Metrics: https://firmendata.com/de/metrics
- Analysis Tools: https://firmendata.com/de/analyse
- Subscription Plans: https://firmendata.com/de/preise
- FAQ: https://firmendata.com/de/faq
- Data Quality: https://firmendata.com/de/datenqualitaet
- Impressum: https://firmendata.com/de/impressum
- Sitemap XML: https://firmendata.com/sitemap.xml
- Compact AI Summary: https://firmendata.com/llms.txt

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## Contact

- **Legal Name**: Firmendata UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
- **Email**: info@firmendata.com
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Location**: Germany