
Marie Lidauer
Administration
Access to detailed financial data of companies in Austria often presents an unnecessary hurdle. This is precisely where Firmenbuch AI comes in: As a free, AI-powered platform, it takes access to company data to a whole new level, making it accessible to the general public.
In Austria, detailed financial data from companies, such as annual statements and balance sheets, was public, but access was cumbersome and costly. Every query from the official company register was associated with fees, which significantly limited transparency for the general public. This situation is now changing due to the new EU directive on the public disclosure of company data. This directive obligates member states to make certain company information from national registers available free of charge and via a machine-readable interface (API).
The frontend was built using the Svelte framework, while the backend is powered by Kotlin/Spring Boot. The official government API serves as the data source. The entire process, from the initial idea to the first live version, took only about two weeks. By using winkk AI, even annual financial statements that are provided only as PDFs, and not in a machine-readable format (XML), can be broken down into their individual components and used for further processing. The project has been under continuous development ever since.
Firmenbuch AI represents an effective solution to the long-standing problem of difficult access to company data. The new EU directive creates the necessary legal framework for this, while the deployed AI technology provides the crucial technological component for making the data usable.
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Administration