KYB, honestly scoped

The Norwegian company-truth and signing-authority layer of KYB.

KYB (Know Your Business) is a suite of checks, not one check. Apier covers one layer of it, read from the public Norwegian registries, and names the layers it leaves to your KYB or AML provider. That is the whole claim, and the exclusions are part of it.

Apier provides the Norwegian company-truth and signing-authority layer of KYB - machine-readable, with source provenance and historical state. We do not provide beneficial-ownership (UBO) screening, sanctions or PEP screening, or AML risk scoring.

• LIVECompany status, roles and coded signing authority
• GATEDWrite operations (sandbox + dry-run)
• PLANNEDHistorical state and portable proof

What Apier provides

Given an organisation number, and nothing else:

• Company status and organisational form. The registered status from Enhetsregisteret, the legal form, and the bankruptcy, liquidation and forced-dissolution flags, each read as its own flag rather than a collapsed status. Served by the verify and context endpoints.
• VAT registration. Whether the company is registered for VAT, as a transparency signal on the verification verdict.
• Registered roles. The role rows the register holds for the company, as registered, with the role codes.
• Signature rights and prokura, in coded combinations. The register’s signaturrett and prokura clauses resolved into machine codes and a mode (sole, joint, severally, alternatives), with a verification stamp. Only an empty result with a stamp asserts a “no”; free text the parser cannot code is returned as uninterpreted, never guessed. Served by the authority endpoint.
• Source and verification date on every answer. Each response carries the source it was read from, the data freshness and the date it was last verified, in the body and as headers.
• No eID, no login, any jurisdiction. None of this requires a Norwegian eID or an Altinn login. The endpoints take an API key and are callable from anywhere. A keyless sandbox with a synthetic company is open for trying the shapes.

What Apier does not provide

• Beneficial-ownership (UBO) screening. Who ultimately owns or controls the company, and whether that chain is acceptable to you.
• Sanctions and PEP screening. Matching the company and the people behind it against sanctions lists and politically exposed persons.
• AML risk scoring. A money-laundering risk rating, ongoing monitoring, and the decision to onboard or refuse.

Those are the screening steps a KYB or AML provider performs. Run them beside Apier, not instead of it. If a tender scores a full KYB suite, score Apier as one layer of that suite, not as the suite.

Why the exclusions are on the page

A compliance buyer reads a KYB claim by what it leaves out. Saying plainly which layers Apier does not cover is what makes the layer it does cover credible, and it saves both sides an evaluation against a checklist Apier was never built for. The company-truth and signing-authority layer is where the public Norwegian registries are authoritative, and it is the layer a verification decision is built on before any screening runs.

Related pages

• Company Verification — the pass / fail / unknown verdict on a company.
• Signature + Authority — who is actually allowed to sign for the company.
• Company-data APIs vs Apier — how a verified answer differs from a data feed.
• Brønnøysund (BRREG) API — the company-registry data this layer is read from.
• How do I perform automated Norwegian company KYC and due diligence via API?
• How do I check a Norwegian supplier before paying an invoice?
• What is KYB and how does it work in Norway?

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Read how we handle data and verifiability on the trust page, or see pricing and the founding offer.