Tic CLI is a high-performance, open-source command-line tool and programmatic automation interface designed specifically for the TIC business intelligence and datasets platform. Maintained under the SpaceCorps open-source engineering collective, the project provides developers and autonomous AI agents with a single, standalone binary capable of querying Swedish company intelligence, beneficial ownership networks, vehicle registries, debtor summaries, and bankruptcy records across macOS, Linux, and Windows without runtime dependencies or interpreter overhead.
The original prototype was implemented as a .NET global tool (Tic.Console) by Niels Bosma. To meet the demanding requirements of modern automated workflows and autonomous coding assistants, the tool was re-engineered in Rust (Edition 2024). This port delivers cold startup times of 1 to 3 milliseconds, deterministic multi-account security, zero runtime dependencies, and seamless integration with OS keystores.
Tic CLI adheres to the SpaceCorps CLI standard: safety, speed, and agentic interoperability. Credentials are never written to unencrypted configuration files by default; instead, keys are stored in native OS credential stores (macOS Keychain, Windows DPAPI, Linux Secret Service). The output protocol provides clean, human-readable YAML by default and strictly formatted JSON via --json for pipeline processing.
The CLI provides comprehensive coverage of the TIC API endpoints, including company lookup by registration number or ID, multi-field search, beneficial ownership graphs, corporate tree hierarchies, anomaly intelligence records, board parties, Kronofogden debtor summaries, corporate vehicle registries, property holdings, person searches, and bankruptcy filings.