Company Dossier is free to use. Every dossier is built from public sources, so there is no data licence to pay for and nothing behind a paywall. One price, no asterisk: zero.
free, from public sources
Most company-research tools charge because they license a proprietary database and resell access to it. Company Dossier works differently. It doesn't sell you a dataset — it reads the public record the same way a careful person would, then organizes what it finds into one file. Job listings, public filings, news, maps and a company's own website are all freely available; the value is in gathering, reconciling and laying them out, not in gatekeeping them. Because there's no data to license, there's nothing to bill you for. What a company dossier is →
That's also why this isn't a "free trial" or a teaser. There's no premium tier hiding the good sections, no per-company charge, and no point where you're asked to upgrade to see your own results. If you're searching for whether there's a company research tool that's free — this is it, and it stays free.
The free plan is the whole product. Every dossier you run includes:
And it runs wherever you work. The same free dossier is available through the web app, the VS Code extension, the npm CLI (company-dossier), the ChatGPT app and the Claude app and skill. Pick the channel that fits your workflow; the price is the same in all of them. See all the ways to run it →
To be completely honest about it: there is exactly one way money can enter the picture, and it's entirely optional. If you want to push a dossier further than public sources alone — say, by adding a paid search provider or a commercial data API you already subscribe to — you can supply your own API key, and the tooling will use it for deeper enrichment.
Three things matter here. First, this is optional: with no keys at all, you still get the complete nine-section file. Second, any charge comes from that third-party provider, billed directly to you on your own account — Company Dossier doesn't resell it and doesn't take a cut. Third, you stay in control: it's your key, your provider, your spend. The default, free experience never asks for a card.
Free doesn't mean unlimited in every dimension — it means honest. A dossier is built from what the public record actually contains, so a company with little public footprint will produce a thinner file than a well-covered one. That's a limit of the source material, not a paywall. As always, treat a dossier as a fast, sourced starting map and verify the lines that matter before you act on them.
There's nothing to buy and nothing to sign up for to find out. Read a sample dossier to see exactly what you get, then open a file on any company — free.
Yes. Company Dossier is free to use. A dossier is assembled entirely from public sources — job boards, filings, news and the open web — so there is no data licence to pass on and no per-report fee. There is no paywall on the sections, no credit-card wall to see your results, and no usage cap that flips you into a paid tier. The tooling is open, and you can run it on as many companies as you like.
Nothing is required to get a complete dossier. The only thing that can cost money is optional: if you want deeper enrichment, you can bring your own third-party API keys (for example, a paid data or search provider you already pay for) and the tooling will use them. Those keys are billed by that provider, to you, on your own account — Company Dossier never charges you and never marks anything up. Out of the box, with no keys, you still get the full nine-section file for free.
no paywall. no per-report fee. just open a file.