nimistu brings the public records of Estonian companies onto a single page - business ties, finances, employees, procurements, legal disputes, vehicles, properties - and shows, next to every claim, where it came from. Free, in the public interest.
We want every Estonian company's public data available in one place, as simply as reading a bank statement. So a journalist, investigator, buyer, partner, student or fellow business owner can search a name and see the whole picture - with a citation next to every claim.
The Estonian Business Register, tax data, the procurement register, court rulings, legal records, the building register, the vehicle register, the Land Register, the EU lobby register - every fragment is joined onto the company's profile.
We add connections as context: who is whose subsidiary, parent or sister company, who shares board members, who buys and who sells through public procurement.
We don't give a company a “score”, a “rating” or a “risk score”. We don't ask anyone to pay to make their data look better. We don't show ads.
Our work is to connect and display public facts. Interpretation and judgement always stay with the reader. Next to every claim is a citation - you can verify it on the spot.
These principles decide what belongs in nimistu and what doesn't. When in doubt, we come back to them.
We never give a company a score, a rating or a “risk level”. Interpretation and judgement stay with the reader.
Every number, date and entry is linked to a specific public register record. Click the citation, see the original.
Data comes only from state registries, courts, public-law bodies and recognised international datasets. Never from forums or social media.
If the same person sits on two boards, we show it. If a company is part of a group, we map the structure. Connections are facts.
We don't display private individuals' addresses, phone numbers or personal contact details. Board members' data is public in the Business Register, and we show only what is there.
If you point out an error, we fix it within 48 hours. For inaccuracies at the source level, we help you reach the register's keeper.
We use language models in specific places, always clearly labelled. Models don't make decisions or form opinions on a person's behalf.
Where we use it: auto-generated short company summaries (3-4 sentences on what a company does), normalising job titles (e.g. mapping “juhataja”, “tegevjuht” and “CEO” together), grouping procurement purpose texts, and explanations of activities from an existing EMTAK code.
Where we don't: to produce risk assessments, draw conclusions, make predictions, describe a company's “character”, judge individuals, or recommend any specific business decision.
We label AI text with a “NimistuAI” tag. Every model-written summary carries a “NimistuAI” mark. Feedback is welcome - tell us if something looks off.
We don't let the model invent facts. The model only receives structured register data as input - if there's no data, there's no text. Hallucination is ruled out at the data-structure level.
We keep AI in an interpretation-free zone. A summary describes what a company does (EMTAK + activity + location + size). It never says whether a company is good, bad, risky or successful.
AI doesn't make business decisions for you. We offer no “should I do business with this company” recommendations. Those decisions are made by people, with their legal and financial advisers where needed.
We log AI usage. For every AI-generated field we record which model produced the text, when, and from what input.
We don't train models on user data. Search history, queries and account info never enter any model's training or fine-tuning dataset.
Every fragment is tied to a specific register. Click a citation on a company's profile and you reach the original record at the source. We refresh source by source, each at its own rate.
Every source is documented at /en/sources - with its refresh cadence, origin and data coverage.
nimistu serves the public good. When we make decisions, we hold to three strict rules.
All aggregated data shown in nimistu is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Journalists, researchers, NGOs and companies may use, share and build on the data - citing nimistu.ee as the source.
Read the license →No banners, no “sponsored entries”, no paid ranking. Every company appears under the same rules.
A company cannot pay to improve its entry or remove negative information.
Operations are run by Nimistu MTÜ - a registered Estonian non-profit. All of its activity serves the public good.
Any income (donations, grants, possible API use in future) goes entirely into maintaining and developing the database.
nimistu.ee is run by an Estonian non-profit set up specifically for this purpose.
A non-profit whose sole purpose is to maintain and develop the nimistu.ee platform in service of the public good. Founded in 2026 to separate the platform's activity from the founder's other business.
The board works on a voluntary basis. Contributions from third parties (sponsors, partnerships) affect technical decisions only where they don't conflict with the six principles above.
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