Netherlands KVK — post-KVK-API-2024 reality / developer guide The Netherlands' company register — Kamer van Koophandel (KVK) — quietly changed how developers access corporate data when the modernised KVK Open Data API became the canonical machine interface. The open-data tier now exposes a limited but real-time slice of the Handelsregister: activity start date, legal form, activity codes, and the latest adopted annual accounts. The key constraint is intentional: the free tier strips personally identifying information. Company names, addresses, directors, shareholders, and UBOs are not returned. Those surfaces remain behind paid register extracts or AML‑gated channels. For developers building compliance tooling, research pipelines, or AI agents, the result is unusual: the Netherlands publishes a technically clean API surface, but the most recognisable identifiers are removed . Integration therefore revolves around the 8‑digit KVK number rather than company names.…