Quickstart

1. Sign up. Your API key is shown once on the dashboard. Store it.
2. Call the API. Every call needs Authorization: Bearer <key>.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ak_live_..." \
  https://api.akribi.dev/v1/companies/be:0200068636

3. Read the headers. X-Cost is what this call charged in euro cents, X-Balance what is left on your key. The first fetch of a company costs 10 cents and unlocks it for 30 days; every later call about it is free.

Request-Id: req_3f9a1c2b7d10
Akribi-Version: 2026-10-30
X-Cost: 10
X-Balance: 490
X-Unlocks-Remaining: 199

New companies in a sector and a town

One call: every incorporation in Ghent whose activity falls under NACE 56 (restaurants, bars, catering). activity takes one or more NACE-BEL 2025 prefixes separated by commas (56, 56.1,56.3, 49,52,53 for logistics), municipality takes the Dutch or French name. There is no time window: add occurred_after=2026-09-01 to start at a date.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ak_live_..." \
  "https://api.akribi.dev/v1/events?type=company.incorporated&municipality=gent&activity=56"

Each item is a stub: the company's id, name, legal form and place, plus data.activities with each code's source, kbo for the official code or deed for a code read from the incorporation deed. About 70% of incorporations carry a sector in their first week. A feed page is a search: it costs nothing and counts one against your weekly quota. To read the deed facts, unlock the company:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ak_live_..." \
  https://api.akribi.dev/v1/companies/be:1044404938

The response carries incorporation with purpose, capital_eur, founders_count, premises and the deed-read activities with their confidence, next to the registry contact.

Use cases

One call each.

1. New companies in a sector and a town, every week: GET /v1/events?type=company.incorporated&municipality=gent&activity=56. Add occurred_after=<date of the last run>.
2. A VAT number before a deal: GET /v1/companies/be:0200068636?expand[]=financials&expand[]=publications. Status, seat, legal form, annual accounts and gazette publications.
3. Who owns a prospect: GET /v1/companies/{id}/graph?depth=2. Companies only, no people.
4. Bankruptcies in a province: GET /v1/events?type=company.bankruptcy_opened&province=antwerpen.
5. A lead list by NACE and province: GET /v1/companies?activity=62100&province=antwerpen. Search activity is one exact code; the feed takes prefixes. Stubs are included; unlock the ones you want.

Next: Identity for the ID formats, Plumbing for errors, pagination and expand, or the Reference for every endpoint. Building an agent? /llms.txt is the same guide in plain text.