Using NACE with modern tools

The NACEBridge website offers a handful of small tools that cover almost every day-to-day question a founder, analyst, journalist or civil servant will have. Search finds classes by keyword; Decode explains a code you already have; Cousins lists the neighbouring classes so you can double-check a borderline choice; Convert translates a national code into its equivalent in another EU country; and Grid gives you the full hierarchy at a glance. All of them are free and require no account.

If you use a modern AI assistant — ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and similar — it can answer questions about NACE directly, using this site as its source. That means you can ask, in plain language, things like «which NACE class covers a mobile coffee cart in Portugal?» and get an answer that cites the correct code. For most readers this is the easiest way to work with NACE: no forms, no downloads, just a conversation.

For offline reading, study or archiving, this handbook is available as a PDF and as an EPUB from the handbook cover page. The official Eurostat manual — the primary source behind every chapter here — is also mirrored on the same page, one click away.

If you are building software that needs to look up NACE codes programmatically, NACEBridge exposes a REST API and an MCP server for AI tools. The details — endpoints, authentication, rate limits, SDKs and examples — live in the developer documentation at /docs. This handbook deliberately keeps to the concepts.