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ARBK Explorer

Turning a government registry into a business intelligence platform

238,000+ businesses searchable, mapped, and analyzed. Built from raw government data into a full SaaS product with 3,000+ active users.

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The challenge

Kosovo's official business registry (ARBK) holds data on every registered company in the country, but it was locked behind a basic government portal with no search, no filtering, and no way to analyze the data at scale. Businesses, researchers, and investors had no practical way to explore the registry or extract meaningful insights from it.

Our approach

We built a custom data pipeline that ingests the entire government registry, normalizes it, and enriches it with computed datasets: risk scoring, owner network analysis, sector momentum, capital movements, and geographic distribution. On top of that, we built a full-stack SaaS platform with real-time search, interactive maps, analytics dashboards, and subscription-based access tiers.

What we delivered

Custom ETL pipeline ingesting 238,000+ business records from government sources
Full-text search with Albanian language support and smart autocomplete
Interactive map with all 38 municipalities and geographic heatmaps
Business risk scoring algorithm with multi-factor analysis
Owner network resolution and portfolio tracking across entities
Sector momentum and market trend analytics
Subscription system with Free, Business, and Enterprise tiers
Export system with configurable formats and daily limits
Real-time dashboards with KPIs, charts, and activity feeds
Saved searches, watchlists, and business collections
GDPR-compliant data handling with business delisting support

Tech highlights

Next.js with server-side rendering and incremental static regenerationPostgreSQL with raw SQL, 45+ migrations, and partitioned tablesCustom full-text search engine with weighted ranking and diacritics support111 REST API endpoints serving search, analytics, auth, and exportsMapLibre GL for interactive mapping with 238K+ data pointsSubscription billing with Paddle integration and webhook reconciliationIn-memory LRU caching layer for high-frequency queriesContainerized deployment with automated CI/CD
We built ARBK Explorer because the data existed but nobody could use it. Now over 3,000 users rely on it to find businesses, track owners, and analyze markets across Kosovo.

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