Fragmented Polish business data — unified searchable registry + API

Polish business data is fragmented across multiple public registries, proprietary lists and inconsistent records, creating operational friction for banks, fintechs, procurement teams and sales/marketing groups that must onboard or monitor roughly 3,000,000 registered companies. These customers pay for verified profiles, enrichment and compliance data — we estimate a $1.5B addressable market based on ~$500 ARPU per company and rate this opportunity with a market score of 92/100 and revenue potential of 88/100. Current pain points include duplicate records, missing UBO/sanctions linkage, slow updates and legal ambiguity around scraping, which increase time-to-onboard, false positives in AML checks and overall compliance costs. You could build a unified, searchable Polish company registry and developer-first API that ingests machine-readable government sources, proprietary datasets and web signals, normalizes identifiers, applies modern ML/NLP entity resolution, and exposes provenance, change history and compliance flags. The product would deliver deduplicated, enriched profiles with SLA-backed freshness and verifiable sourcing to banks, onboarding platforms, data providers and compliance teams, addressing their willingness to pay for reliability and regulatory defensibility. Timing favors the idea because governments are publishing more machine-readable registries and advances in ML/record-linkage lower deduplication costs while EU/Polish AML/KYC pressure increases enterprise demand. Competition is medium — incumbents and global data vendors exist — so the main differentiators would be superior local coverage, transparent provenance, a robust developer experience and anchor customer partnerships; the honest challenges are sustaining legal compliance, continuous ingestion pipelines and the cost of enterprise sales, so pursue this if you can commit 12–18 months of engineering and commercial focus to secure initial enterprise customers.