India

Need reliable company identity for India?

India is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing economies, with a massive base of registered businesses spanning traditional enterprises, digital-first startups, and everything in between.

But representing Indian companies in your product reveals significant challenges:

Registered legal names often don't match brand identities.
SMBs may not have prominent web presence.
Transaction descriptors vary widely across payment systems.
And global brand APIs struggle with India's unique regulatory identifiers.

Yoku makes Indian business identity reliable — not a compliance headache.

What makes India tricky for brand APIs?

India has a complex, multi-layered business identification system shaped by regulatory requirements and diverse market structures:

• CIN (Corporate Identity Number) – identifier for companies registered under the Companies Act
• GSTIN (GST Identification Number) – required for GST-registered businesses, widely used in B2B
• PAN (Permanent Account Number) – used for tax purposes and business identification
• Legal names that differ significantly from commercial brands
• Regional language variations in company names
• Large informal sector with emerging digital footprints

If you rely only on domain-based lookups, you'll miss most of India's business landscape.

Yoku starts with the identifiers India's businesses actually use.

How Yoku resolves Indian companies

🇮🇳 India-native inputs supported

Yoku can identify and enrich Indian entities using the signals you encounter in real systems:

• CIN (Corporate Identity Number)
• GSTIN (GST Identification Number)
• PAN (Permanent Account Number)
• Registered legal names
• Brand / commercial names
• Domains (when available)
• Transaction descriptors from Indian banks and payment providers

By combining registry, web, and transaction signals, Yoku helps you:

• Enrich CRMs with verified Indian organizations
• Normalize records across systems (legal vs brand names)
• Map payments to recognizable merchants
• Reduce duplicate entries and reconciliation issues

India runs on CIN, GSTIN, and PAN.
Yoku treats these as first-class lookup keys.

What data you can embed in your product

When you query an Indian company, Yoku returns structured data ready for your UI and pipelines:

• Logos (multiple formats & resolutions)
• Color palettes ready for theming
• Typography and font hints (when detectable)
• Company descriptions (localized when available)
• Industry mapping (with relevant classifications)
• Location signals (HQ / operating regions when available)
• Social profiles and public presence
• Brand assets for onboarding, invoices, and dashboards
• Transaction-to-brand attribution for Indian payment descriptors

The goal is simple: a canonical company object you can store and reuse.

Built for Indian SaaS, fintech, and AI workflows

Common product patterns in India

Teams typically use Yoku for:

• Multi-tenant SaaS onboarding
  • Auto-brand customer workspaces
  • Reduce manual setup in B2B onboarding
  • Support reseller and channel models
• Fintech & expense management
  • Turn UPI/card strings into readable merchants
  • Improve categorization and user trust
  • Reduce manual merchant mapping
• AI-powered applications
  • Provide LLMs with grounded Indian company context
  • Avoid entity confusion and fabricated details
  • Generate brand-aware UI, copy, and summaries
• CRM & sales operations
  • Enrich leads via CIN/GSTIN/PAN references
  • Normalize account naming conventions
  • Reduce manual research time

Why generic brand APIs underperform in India

Many "global" solutions assume:

• domain-first identification,
• Western-centric data sources,
• minimal regulatory identifier support,
• and single-language naming conventions.

In India this often results in:

• missing MSMEs and emerging businesses
• no native understanding of CIN, GSTIN, or PAN
• confusion between legal entities and brand names
• poor recognition of localized transaction descriptors

Yoku is built to handle India's regulatory landscape and diverse business ecosystem.

Developer-first infrastructure that stays predictable

• API-first, schema-driven outputs
• Built for real-time product flows
• Transparent pricing and predictable limits
• Generous free tier for prototyping
• GDPR-aware infrastructure

Start using Indian company & brand data

Whether you're:

• onboarding Indian customers,
• enriching business profiles,
• resolving merchants in transactions,
• or powering brand-aware AI experiences,

Yoku gives you a clean foundation for Indian business identity.

In India, regulatory identifiers are the backbone.
Your product should be able to use them.

Yoku makes Indian brand identity programmable.

Terminology

• CIN (Corporate Identity Number) = unique identifier for companies under the Companies Act
• GSTIN = GST Identification Number used in invoicing and tax compliance
• PAN = Permanent Account Number used for tax and business identification
• Registered name = legal name in the registry (may differ from brand name)
• Descriptor = bank/payment text that may be truncated or normalized