FAQs

About ISTARI.AI

What does ISTARI.AI do?

ISTARI.AI has developed webAI, an artificial intelligence that analyzes and evaluates company websites worldwide. With webAI, automated market analyses become possible. Check out our solutions.

What can I use ISTARI.AI for?

With ISTARI, you can find exactly the companies that are relevant to you - worldwide. With our artificial intelligence webAI, we evaluate the companies and provide you with exactly the company information you need. Check out our solutions.

Who uses ISTARI.AI?

ISTARI is used by companies, consultancies, the public sector, ministries and research institutions. Take a look at how we've helped players in your industry. Read a story.

Where does ISTARI.AI come from?

ISTARI.AI is from Mannheim, Germany and was founded in 2019 based on scientific research. Learn more about us.

ISTARI.AI data

How does ISTARI.AI analyze companies?

ISTARI.AI uses the artificial intelligence webAI developed by us to read companies' websites, recognize relevant information and summarize it for you.

What data do I get from ISTARI.AI?

ISTARI.AI provides you with company lists containing detailed information that is relevant to you, such as addresses, activity descriptions, people, technologies used, customers, etc.

Does ISTARI.AI also analyze PDF documents?

The artificial intelligence webAI developed by ISTARI.AI reads company websites and also PDF documents that companies display on their websites.

Which companies does ISTARI.AI analyze?

ISTARI.AI uses public sources such as commercial registers and research databases to find economically active companies and other players such as research institutes. ISTARI.AI concentrates on companies with their own website. ISTARI.AI does not analyze companies without their own website.

Are branch offices also included in the ISTARI.AI database?

ISTARI.AI also analyzes branch offices if they have their own websites.

Does ISTARI.AI only analyze companies?

ISTARI.AI examines all economic actors, such as companies, universities, associations, research institutes and also public actors such as municipalities. For the sake of simplicity, however, ISTARI.AI always refers to “companies”.

How often does ISTARI.AI update its data?

The analyzed website data is updated by ISTARI.AI for each new customer request and is therefore close to real time. The underlying company database is constantly being expanded and therefore updated at irregular intervals.

Can I analyze my own company lists with ISTARI.AI?

You can transfer your own lists of companies to ISTARI.AI and analyze them specifically - either in isolation or in addition to other companies from the ISTARI.AI database.

In which countries can ISTARI.AI analyze companies?

ISTARI.AI can analyze companies worldwide. Our constantly growing database contains up to 100 million companies.

Which languages can ISTARI.AI process?

ISTARI.AI is able to analyze over 100 languages, covering 99% of all company websites.

Can ISTARI.AI also analyze historical data (time-series)?

ISTARI.AI can also analyze historical snapshots of company websites via web archives and thus create time series up to 20 years in the past.

Can I also obtain contact and personal data from ISTARI.AI?

If companies decide to publish such information on their websites, ISTARI.AI can analyze it.

Data quality

Which companies have websites?

The majority of significant, economically active companies have their own website. Only very small and very young companies from less digitized industries often do not have their own website or only a social media profile. Learn more.

Is ISTARI.AI information reliable?

ISTARI.AI information is based on website data (especially texts) and has proven to be very reliable in numerous high-quality scientific studies. Learn more about our research partner program.

Can ISTARI.AI recognize false information?

The artificial intelligence webAI developed by ISTARI.AI is not a lie detector and cannot recognize when the information published by companies on their websites is untrue.

Does ISTARI.AI analyze all the information on the websites?

The artificial intelligence webAI developed by ISTARI.AI can evaluate all texts on websites, but not images. In addition, it is possible that not all subpages are evaluated on very large websites (webAI prioritizes the most important subpages). In rare cases, webAI may not be able to evaluate certain websites at all.

Does ISTARI also evaluate password-protected websites and databases?

ISTARI.AI does not analyze password-protected websites or databases.

Legality and data protection

Is ISTARI.AI allowed to analyze websites at all?

ISTARI.AI is allowed to analyze websites. The artificial intelligence webAI developed by ISTARI.AI analyzes websites in a similar way to the search algorithms of major search engines such as Google.

Is ISTARI.AI's work compliant with the GDPR?

The analyses carried out by ISTARI.AI are fully GDPR compliant.

If I send data to ISTARI.AI, can others see it?

No. Data transmitted to ISTARI.AI, such as your own company lists, is stored separately from the main ISTARI.AI database and cannot be viewed by other users.

Usage

What does ISTARI.AI cost?

The artificial intelligence webAI developed by ISTARI can either be used for a fixed annual fee via the webAI platform or together with our experts as part of individual projects, where the costs depend on the scope of the project. Check out our solutions.

Can ISTARI.AI find and process web addresses for my company lists?

The artificial intelligence webAI developed by ISTARI.AI can find web addresses for companies if you have information such as the company name and address. The list can then be further analyzed with webAI.

Does ISTARI.AI also offer consulting services?

ISTARI does not offer consulting services, but helps experts from different industries to find information for data-based decisions.

Does ISTARI.AI also provide me with raw text data?

ISTARI does not transfer raw text data, except for analyses in the context of scientific research, but derived information and texts. Talk to us about this.

May I distribute ISTARI.AI data?

ISTARI.AI data may only be distributed in aggregated form, e.g. in the context of data extracts in reports and studies or as charts for statistics.