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OpenMercantil

OpenMercantil is an independent public-data API for Spanish company intelligence. It indexes the Boletin Oficial del Registro Mercantil (BORME) and cross-references it with 29+ public sources (CNMV, OEPM, PLACSP, BDNS, OpenSanctions, CCAA gazettes, CNMC, CENDOJ and more) to expose company search, structured company reports, registry event timelines, officer records, CNAE sector navigation, daily summaries, public-procurement rankings, a v1.4 cross-source trust score, and CSV/JSON exports. The public REST API is free, requires no API key, and is rate-limited per IP. The project is informational and does not replace official Registro Mercantil certificates.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles OpenMercantil the way a machine reads it — 31 machine-readable artifacts across 14 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — OpenMercantil scores 56.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 55/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 56.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Government & Public Sector 6.9 / 15
Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile OpenMercantil

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for OpenMercantil. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 14

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

OpenMercantil Billing API

Stripe checkout and donation endpoints

OpenMercantil Companies API

Company reports, registry events, officers and export

OpenMercantil Contracts API

Public procurement (PLACSP) rankings

OpenMercantil Daily API

Daily BORME summary feeds

OpenMercantil Export API

Bulk and per-resource export endpoints

OpenMercantil Geocode API

Geolocation enrichment

OpenMercantil Network API

Company relationship network and embargoes

OpenMercantil Persons API

Person search and person reports

OpenMercantil Score API

Company score, trust score and activity timeseries

OpenMercantil Search API

Company and person search endpoints

OpenMercantil Sectors API

CNAE sector taxonomy and sector statistics

OpenMercantil Sources API

External sources and dataset freshness

OpenMercantil Stats API

Aggregate statistics by region and sector

OpenMercantil System API

Service health and metadata

Scroll within the panel for all 14 ·

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

OpenMercantil Public API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Openmercantil Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Openmercantil Context

31 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

OpenMercantil API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

OpenMercantil API Rules

9 rules · 2 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

OpenMercantil Company

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OpenMercantil Company Event

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Openmercantil Company Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Openmercantil Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Openmercantil Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Openmercantil Agentic Access

36 operations · 2 acting

36 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for OpenMercantil — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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