AUO is built entirely on free, public government sources. This page lists every one, what it contributes to a response, and how it is licensed. If AUO asserts something about an entity, it came from one of these, and the provenance on each field tells you which.

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Identity and core

Australian Business Register (ABR)

The identity spine. Resolves an ABN to the entity name, type, ABN and GST status, and the ACN for companies. Every resolve starts here.

ASIC Companies

Company status, current and former registered names, registration and deregistration dates. Joined to the ABR spine for companies.

ASIC Business Names

The registered business-names corpus, used for name search alongside company names.

GLEIF (LEI)

The Legal Entity Identifier and its free cross-walk (external_ids): the opencorporates, qcc, and spglobal identifiers, delivered inside the record.

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Enrichment

ACNC charity register

Charity registration, size, and registration date. Populates the charity block.

ORIC (Indigenous corporations)

The Indigenous Corporation Number (ICN) for CATSI-Act corporations. Populates icn.

Super Fund Lookup

Superannuation fund status and USI products. Populates the superannuation block.

ASIC AFS and credit licensing

AFS licensees and authorised representatives, credit licensees and representatives. Populates the licensing block.

ASIC professional registers

Financial advisers, registered auditors, and SMSF auditors. Populates professional_registrations.

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Screening and monitoring

DFAT Consolidated Sanctions List

Australian sanctions listings. A possible-match here sets dfat_sanctions to review.

ASIC banned and disqualified

Banned and disqualified persons and organisations. Sets asic_banned_person or asic_banned_org.

ASIC insolvency notices

External administration and insolvency notices. Surfaces external_administration and drives the watch event.
All screening follows the possible-match posture: review or no_match, never pass or fail.

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What is not here, on purpose

The liquidator register is keyed by person name only, with no ABN or ACN to join on, so it is not yet an identifier lookup. It is a name-match surface for a future release.
These are paywalled aggregators, not sources AUO ingests. Their identifiers already arrive free inside the GLEIF record’s external_ids, so you get them without paying a reseller.

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Licensing and attribution

Most sources are CC-BY: the ASIC registers, ACNC, ORIC, and GLEIF are open data, free to use with attribution. Two carry extra conditions worth knowing:
  • ABR data carries re-disclosure use-conditions. AUO surfaces it for verification and monitoring; if you plan to redistribute it, check the ABR terms.
  • Court and notice data can carry suppression orders. AUO sources insolvency notices from public ASIC listings.
If you are evaluating AUO for a resale or bulk use case, the per-source licence terms are what govern what you can redistribute. We are happy to walk through them.

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How fresh is it

Each source refreshes on its own cadence (ASIC companies weekly, sanctions daily, and so on). Because sources refresh independently, two can briefly disagree; AUO flags the conflict rather than silently picking one, and every field’s as_of timestamp tells you when it was last read.