A visual, intuitive, spreadsheet-style interface to nimistu's full dataset. Filter, sort, join and export straight from the source tables — like Excel or Airtable, but with real national register data.
A company profile page is great for researching one company. But when you're looking for patterns across whole sectors, comparing thousands of records, or combining data from several registers at once, you need direct access to the source tables.
Click, drag, filter. The same feel as Excel or Google Sheets, but wired to real national registries. No SQL required, no database knowledge needed.
Join companies to board members, procurements, court cases or properties. A visual join diagram shows where the tables meet, and the result appears in seconds.
Save the result for your own analysis. Share a view with colleagues by link. Work with the data and its citations in Datawrapper, Flourish or the tool of your choice.
The Business Register's recent changes every 10 minutes. Procurements, court rulings, the state-payment ledger and tax debts every day. You work with the same dataset the entire nimistu system sees.
Click a cell and see which register, when, and from which entry it came. The same traceability as the profile pages, but on the raw data.
Direct access is meant for the specific use cases an ordinary profile page can't solve.
Finding patterns across dozens or hundreds of companies at once. Tracing ownership through complex structures. Surfacing connections that cut across sectors.
Finding ties between politicians, officials and business owners. Analysing the impact of reforms at the level of whole sectors. Making systemic problems visible.
The database gives access to exactly the same tables nimistu uses to build its profile pages — not one fewer. Below are the main data groups; record counts are as of May 2026.
We review every application by hand.
Briefly describe who you are, which organisation you represent, and the questions you want the data to answer. Links to earlier work help.
We check that the use case fits our principles. If needed, we get in touch for clarification. A decision usually comes within a few days.
Once your application is approved, you receive a link to sign in with an ID-card, Mobile-ID or Smart-ID. Access is bound to your personal ID code.
Filter, combine, export. Sign in as often as you need.
Estonian register data is largely public, but direct access to whole tables is a powerful tool. We don't do this for money — we do it for the safeguards.
Responsible useYou use the data only in the public interest — in journalism, research and informing the public. Not for commercial gain or to harm third parties.
Privacy of individualsYou don't use the database to track, harass or doxx particular individuals. Board members' data is public, but context matters.
Crediting the sourceIf you use the data in a public publication, you credit nimistu.ee as the source along with the query date, under CC BY-SA 4.0 terms.
You authenticate with an Estonian eID method (ID-card, Mobile-ID, Smart-ID). That means access is personal.
Describe your use case in the contact form. The more concretely you describe what you want to do with the data, the faster we can decide. The usual review time is under three days.
In-depth studies of Estonia's business sector. Demographic and economic analysis. Data for master's and doctoral theses.
An overview of a municipality's business sector. The links between the state sector and other registers. Data support for shaping policy.
Bulk download for resaleYou don't download the whole database in order to resell it, distribute it as part of a commercial product, or build a competing business model.
Direct marketing to individualsYou don't use the data for marketing aimed at private individuals. Company contacts for business communication are allowed within Estonian and EU rules.
Credit-scoring or rating systemsYou don't use the data to train machine-learning models that score companies or people by risk, creditworthiness or any similar method.
Passing on your accessYou don't share your access credentials with anyone else. Each person needs their own application and approval. If you share, we switch the access off.