About

Firmatlas shows a country's economy the way it looks from above: every company is a light whose brightness equals its size. It is not a register and not a credit bureau. It is a way to find yourself among your peers and see where you stand.

What makes it different

• The real address instead of the legal one — reconstructed from environmental permits and job postings, with an honest confidence label.
• Comparison with peers instead of an isolated registry card: a company's cross-section always sits beside its sector median.
• Derived indicators nobody else computes: turnover per employee, a wage estimate from social contributions, quarterly momentum.

Who it is for

Owners and directors of small and mid-sized businesses looking up their own company. Sales and procurement teams hunting suppliers by sector and geography. Analysts, journalists and officials looking at a whole industry.

What comes next

Latvia is first. Then Estonia, Poland, Germany. The first version is entirely free — no locks, no “available in Pro”.

Licence

Two different things are mixed on every page of this site, and they are not ours to the same degree.

The registers: public domain

Turnover, taxes, employees, activity codes, addresses as filed, procurement contracts, support granted — all of it is published by Latvian authorities under CC0, which means it is already in the public domain. We did not create it and we claim nothing over it. Take it from us or from the source, for any purpose, with no permission needed. CC0 1.0

Our work: CC BY 4.0

What we added is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: the compilation itself, the reconstructed physical addresses and their confidence levels, the estimates, the record of what changed since we first saw a company, the matching of payments to support measures, the peer groups and the translations. Use it anywhere, including commercially — name Firmatlas and link to the page you took it from. CC BY 4.0

Why the split

Declaring one licence over everything would have been simpler and wrong. A non-commercial clause over register data would claim a right we do not have; dropping attribution on our own work would leave every figure we reconstructed unaccountable to its source. The split says exactly who made what.

One condition follows from the data rather than the law: where we mark a number as an estimate, keep the mark. An estimate republished as a fact is the one use of this dataset we would ask you not to make.

Questions and answers

What is Firmatlas?

A public atlas of companies registered in Latvia, built entirely on open government data. Every company is a point on the map of the country, placed where the business actually operates; the brightness of a point is its size. Reading the facts is free and requires no account. Three companies can be opened in full — with contracts, rivals and change history; after that those layers ask for an account, while the facts stay open.

Where does the data come from?

From open registers published by Latvian authorities: the Enterprise Register (who exists), the State Address Register (where buildings are), annual financial statements and income statements (turnover, profit, assets), the State Revenue Service (taxes paid and the declared NACE activity code) and the Procurement Monitoring Bureau (public contracts). Every source is fetched directly, unmodified, and listed at /llms.txt.

What here is a fact and what is an estimate?

Facts, reproduced as published: registration number, name, legal form, legal address, declared activity code, turnover and profit from filed statements, taxes paid, number of employees, public contracts and their sums. Estimates, computed by us and always labelled as estimates: the average gross wage and the payroll fund, derived from social contributions; the physical address when it was reconstructed rather than filed, carried with a confidence level; the sector for companies that never declared an activity code.

How often is it updated?

Every night. The registers themselves publish on their own schedule — annual statements once a year, tax data quarterly, the company register continuously — so a figure is as fresh as its source allows. Each company page carries the period the number belongs to.

Why does a company show zero turnover, or none at all?

These are two different things and the site never merges them. «Zero turnover» means the company filed an annual report and the turnover in it was zero. «No report filed» means the company has not filed, so its turnover is unknown — and unknown is not zero. Companies without a declared turnover are searchable and have their own pages, but they are not lit on the map: brightness carries size, and there is no size to carry.

Is there an API?

Yes. A read-only JSON API serves the same data as the site: search, company detail, sector aggregates, rankings and public contracts. Anonymous use is rate limited; a free key raises the ceiling and is issued at /sign-in/ — a passkey or an email link, no password to invent.

Where do the public contracts come from?

From the open data of the Procurement Monitoring Bureau, published daily under CC0 since October 2023. Sums are as published by the buyer. A contract won jointly by several companies is marked as joint: the shares are not published, so the site says «took part in contracts worth X», never «earned X».

I found a mistake in my company's data. What now?

Report it through the correction form. We check every correction against the source register and answer within two working days. Where the register itself is wrong, we say so — the atlas reproduces the registers and does not overwrite them silently.