One API For Australian Business Data
AUO is the Australian business data API. It exists because getting a clean, verified view of an Australian entity should not mean stitching together a SOAP service, weekly CSV dumps, and registers that have no API at all.
The wall every Australian developer hits
Try to look up an Australian business in code and you meet the same wall. The Australian Business Register ships a SOAP/XML web service. ASIC publishes weekly CSV dumps that are tab-delimited despite the .csv extension, with multiple rows per company. ACNC, the charity regulator, has no API at all.
None of them talk to each other. There is no single federal search that joins an ABN to its ACN to its charity status to whether the entity sits on a sanctions list. So every team that needs this rebuilds the same brittle pipeline: a SOAP client, a CSV ingester, a cross-referencing layer, a cache, and a job to keep it fresh as the source resource IDs rotate. That is weeks of work before a single entity is resolved.
So we built the join
The API turns those fragmented government sources into what they should have been: one REST call that returns a single, verified record, with the register each field came from and the date it was read attached to every value. Give it an ABN, ACN, or company name and it resolves the entity across the Australian Business Register, ASIC, ACNC, ORIC, GLEIF, and Super Fund Lookup, screens it against the DFAT sanctions list and the ASIC banned registers, and lets you watch it for change. No SOAP client, no CSV pipeline, no cross-referencing layer to maintain.
It is built entirely on free, public Australian government sources. Not a reseller of paywalled data, not a scraper of private records: the same registers you could pull yourself, joined and kept current so you do not have to.
Australian data, honestly handled.
Every free source, joined
ABR, ASIC, ACNC, ORIC, GLEIF, DFAT, AUSTRAC, and Super Fund Lookup, resolved into one canonical record on one bearer token.
Provenance on every field
Each value carries the register it came from and the date it was read. Conflicts between sources are flagged, not silently hidden.
Honest boundaries
Screening is possible-match, never "cleared." Bankruptcy shows as a petition filed, not a verdict. No directors or beneficial ownership, because that is not in the free record.
Australian to the core
Built for Australian registers, priced in AUD, and shaped by how ASIC, the ABR, and ACNC actually publish, not a global product with Australia bolted on.
Built for the teams that verify Australian businesses.
Any product that onboards, bills, or does due diligence on an Australian entity can run on one call instead of a data pipeline.
AML/CTF compliance
Verify and screen customers against the DFAT sanctions and ASIC banned registers, then monitor for new hits. The building blocks of an AML/CTF program.
Tranche 2 screening
For the sectors newly captured from 1 July 2026, real estate, legal, accounting, and more, run customer due diligence before providing a service.
Fintech and KYC
Confirm a business is real, active, and clear of red flags before you open an account, extend credit, or move money.
E-commerce checkout
Validate an ABN and resolve the entity at checkout to apply the right tax treatment and reduce fraud, without a manual review queue.
Real estate and conveyancing
Verify parties to a transaction and screen them as part of the due diligence a property settlement now requires.
Legal and accounting
Resolve and screen a client entity, follow the trust to its corporate trustee, and keep a provenance trail for the file.
CRM and data quality
Enrich and de-duplicate your account records against the source of truth: current name, status, ACN, and licences straight from the registers.
B2B onboarding
Turn a typed ABN into a verified supplier or customer record in one call, so a new account is clean from the first day.
Billing automation
Validate an ABN before you invoice, and get a signed webhook if a customer is later deregistered or cancelled.
A simple, honest promise
The API does one thing well: it turns Australia's free public business registers into a single, verified, monitored API, and it is honest about where the free public record ends. A screening no-match is not a clearance. A bankruptcy petition is not a verdict. It is a verification and monitoring layer, not a full KYB stack, and it says so plainly rather than letting you find out in production.
Operated in Australia by Search Ventures Pty Ltd, the team behind RBA Exchange Rates API, a REST API for official Reserve Bank of Australia exchange rates. Same idea: take Australian public data that is a pain to work with, and turn it into a clean, reliable API.