Legal Entity Resolution

What it does

The trading name on a website and the registered entity that signs a contract are frequently different, and the gap is where invoicing, tax and diligence problems live. This skill resolves the domain to the register record, validates the tax identifier where it can, and states the jurisdiction rather than assuming one.

When to use it

• what is their legal entity
• company registration number
• VAT number for this company
• supplier due diligence
• legal name for the contract

What it needs from you

• domain: the company domain
• jurisdiction: the expected country of registration, if known
• strictness: whether a near name match is acceptable

Live data it reads

The register lookup and tax identifier validation run live against the public registers rather than a cached copy. - legal-entity-resolver: domain to registered entity, company number and validated tax identifier Store page: https://apify.com/mambalabs/legal-entity-resolver Runnable example input:

How it works

1. Resolve against the register for the jurisdiction, and state which register was used. A match in the wrong register is worse than no match.
2. Prefer an exact name match. A near match on a common trading name will find a different company with a similar name, and that error is expensive downstream.
3. Validate the tax identifier rather than reporting the one on the website, because website tax numbers are frequently stale or belong to a different group entity.
4. Where a group structure exists, report the entity that matches the domain and note the parent rather than silently returning either.
5. Report status. A dissolved or dormant entity is a material finding for diligence and a blocker for a contract.
6. Return nothing rather than a low confidence match, and say what additional input would resolve it.

What you get back

The entity record with registered name, number, jurisdiction, status and validated tax identifier, the group note where applicable, and the confidence.

The quality bar

• The register used is named
• The tax identifier is validated, not copied from the website
• Entity status is reported
• A low confidence result returns nothing and names the missing input

Where it runs

• Claude Code
• Codex CLI
• Cursor
• MCP-compatible agents