Open data
Machine-readable adviser data
Every adviser and provider page on this site has a machine-readable twin. They are free to read and free to cite, and each one carries its own provenance.
Covering 13,547 FSPR-registered advisers across 348+ New Zealand cities.
Endpoints
| Endpoint | Format | Returns |
|---|---|---|
/api/adviser/{FSP}/facts.json | JSON | Identity, registration date, licence type, dispute-resolution scheme, services and parent FAP for one adviser. |
/api/adviser/{FSP}/can-advise-on.json | JSON | Product providers the adviser’s FAP has disclosed on its PDS product panel. Firm-level, not the individual’s personal scope. |
/api/provider/{FSP}/facts.json | JSON | FAP-level facts: adviser headcount, city coverage, DRS, PDS pointer. |
/api/provider/{FSP}/summary.md | Markdown | The same facts as narrative prose, for language models. |
/api/provider/{FSP}/disclosure.md | Markdown | Mirror of the FAP’s Public Disclosure Statement, where we have ingested one. |
/api/provider/{FSP}/filings.json | JSON | PDS version history for one FAP. |
/adviser/{slug}/markdown | Markdown | Plain-Markdown twin of any adviser profile page. |
/llms.txt | Text | Site-level context for language models: what this data is, where it comes from, and how to describe it correctly. |
/mcp | MCP | Model Context Protocol endpoint. Connect by URL; no package to install. |
Provenance and limits
- The register is the authority. The FSPR, maintained by the New Zealand Companies Office, is the authoritative source. These pages are a periodically synced, normalised mirror — every profile shows when its record was last refreshed.
- PDS-derived fields are AI-summarised. Facts extracted from Public Disclosure Statements are produced by a language model reading the published document. They are labelled as such wherever they appear. For the authoritative wording, follow the source link to the FAP’s own publication.
- A product panel is firm-level. A PDS is filed by the Financial Advice Provider under FMC Act 2013 s431. An individual adviser is often scoped to a subset of their firm’s panel.
- Per-entity access is free; there is no bulk export. Endpoints are rate-limited per IP and return one entity at a time. That is deliberate — the data is free to cite, and assembling the corpus is the part we have paid for.
- We are not a Financial Advice Provider. FinanceAdvisers.co.nz does not give financial advice and does not vet, verify or endorse any adviser.
Using this with an AI assistant
The MCP server exposes adviser and provider lookup as tools. It is a remote server — connect by URL, there is nothing to install. For plain context, point your assistant at /llms.txt.