About

Piko is an assistant for advisors and mentors at SPOT points (Slovenia's one-stop shops for businesses) and other civil servants who advise entrepreneurs. It answers from a collection of official sources, the SPOT Handbook, open company data and official statistics, and cites the source and the date it was checked with every answer.

What Piko can do

• Chat: answers about starting and running a business, taxes, contributions, permits, employment and incentives, with numbered sources and the limits of basic SPOT advice.
• Official SURS statistics in the chat: inflation and prices, wages, GDP, employment, number and revenue of enterprises by municipality, region and activity, exports and imports, population. Always with the period and a link to the table.
• Meeting preparation: basic data and financials of a company from open data, and the conditions for its activity.
• Checklists, a learning path with a certificate and a quiz for new advisors.
• Changes: what changed in the sources, and you can ask in plain words.
• Connectors for Claude and ChatGPT, and an app for your phone.

Language

Piko's interface, quiz, learning path and checklists are available in English, and Piko answers in English. The official sources and the SPOT Handbook are in Slovenian: Piko searches them in Slovenian, explains them in English and links to the original pages.

How it stays up to date

• It checks all sources every day at 4:15. Last check: 14 Nov 2026.
• Whenever a page changes, it saves a new version and records what was added or removed. Everything is on the Changes page (last day, week, month).
• Each source in an answer shows whether it changed recently.
• Quiz questions whose source changed go to review.

Knowledge base

• SPOT portal · 3102 pages · checked 14 Nov 2026
  The state portal for businesses: founding, running a business, activities, permits, professions, e-procedures.
• Business portal (SPIRIT) · 1129 pages · checked 14 Nov 2026
  SPIRIT Slovenia programmes, the SPOT network, current calls, events and news for entrepreneurs.
• EU funds (evropskasredstva.si) · 457 pages · checked 14 Nov 2026
  EU cohesion policy 2021–2027: open, announced and closed calls, implementation, news.
• Slovene Enterprise Fund (SPS) · 337 pages · checked 14 Nov 2026
  Incentives for entrepreneurs: start-up incentives, microloans, guarantees, vouchers, calls.
• AJPES · 321 pages · checked 14 Nov 2026
  Business Register, Register of Beneficial Owners, annual reports, public notices.
• GOV.SI (ministries) · 265 pages · checked 14 Nov 2026
  Ministry topics for businesses (taxes, labour, export, products, intellectual property, public procurement) and ministries' public calls and vouchers.
• Financial Administration (FURS) · 246 pages · checked 14 Nov 2026
  Taxes, contributions, VAT, fiscal cash registers, customs, business events and detailed guides.
• SID Bank · 241 pages · checked 14 Nov 2026
  Development and export bank: loans for investment and working capital, R&D, equity financing, fund of funds, export insurance and support.
• Slovene Regional Development Fund (SRRS) · 213 pages · checked 14 Nov 2026
  Public fund in Ribnica: regional incentives for business, agriculture and forestry, calls, call plan, forms.
• Health Insurance Institute (ZZZS) · 174 pages · checked 14 Nov 2026
  Compulsory health insurance, insurance registration, insured persons, compensation.
• Employment Service (ZRSZ) · 170 pages · checked 14 Nov 2026
  Employment incentives, active employment policy programmes, employing foreigners.
• SPOT Handbook 1.1 (SPIRIT Slovenia, 12 Jun 2026) · 16 pages
  Scope and limits of advice at SPOT points (in Slovenian).

Data sources

• Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS), SiStat database · live from SiStat for each question
  Official statistics: prices and inflation, wages, GDP, the labour market, enterprises by municipality, region and activity, foreign trade, population. Free to reuse with the credit "Source: SURS".
• Company data: FURS and AJPES · updated weekly
  Open data on legal entities: legal form, seat, activity, VAT, employees and recent financials (FURS taxpayer list; AJPES, CC BY 4.0). No contacts or people, no sole proprietors.

Connect to Claude and ChatGPT

You can also use the knowledge base directly in Claude or ChatGPT as a connector (MCP). Server address:

• Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the address.
• ChatGPT: Settings → Apps & Connectors → Create (developer mode) → paste the address, no sign-in.

Tools: search, fetch (full page with source), recent_changes, statistics_tables and statistics_data (official SURS statistics). The content is in Slovenian.

Privacy and limitations

• Do not enter clients' personal data. Questions are stored without any user data, so we can see where sources are missing.
• Answers are for information only and do not replace official decisions or legal or tax advice. Always check the cited source for amounts and deadlines.
• Conversations are saved only in your browser.

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