---
title: "Commercial Register Search"
description: "Search in the German Commercial Register for company research"
canonical_url: "https://meingpt.com/en/docs/integrations/integrated-databases/commercial-register"
language: en
---

# Commercial Register Search

The Commercial Register tool is a native tool in meinGPT that enables searching the German Commercial Register for company research.

## Main functions

### Company search
- **`search_company`**: Searches the German Commercial Register
  - Search by company name or keywords
  - Various search modes:
    - `all`: all words must appear
    - `min`: at least one word must appear
    - `exact`: exact match
  - Each result already includes the registration court, city, status and the available document codes

### Documents
- **`download_company_document`**: Downloads a register document (e.g. DK, UT, VO) for a result from the search and ingests it into Document Engine for the current chat

## Usage examples

### Company search
```text
"Search for Volkswagen in the Commercial Register"
"Find all GmbHs with 'Software' in the name"
"Show me companies in Munich"
```

### Download a document
```text
"Download the current register extract (DK) for SelectCode GmbH"
```

## Benefits

- Official access to the German Commercial Register
- Current company data
- No API keys required
- Supports all common German legal forms (GmbH, AG, KG, etc.)
- Register documents can be made available directly for chat analysis

## Notes

- Search is limited to German companies
- Data comes from the official Handelsregister portal
- Access to public information is free