Florida New Business Registrations (Sunbiz)

Fresh Florida LLC, corporation, and limited partnership filings — sourced straight from the Florida Division of Corporations' own bulk data files, normalized into one clean JSON schema, deduplicated across runs so you never pay for the same record twice.

Unofficial. This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Florida Department of State, the Division of Corporations, or Sunbiz. "Sunbiz" is referenced only to identify the public data source.

Why this instead of a Sunbiz scraper

Most Sunbiz actors search-scrape sunbiz.org result pages one query at a time. This one reads the official bulk corporate data files that the Division of Corporations publishes itself for exactly this purpose — a daily delta file of every filing added that day. That means:

• No HTML scraping, no bot-wall risk. The Division hands out read-only SFTP credentials on its own public docs page — this is the intended access path, not a workaround.
• Delta-native. The daily file is "what's new today," so a "new filings" run doesn't need to diff a full-text search against yesterday's — the source is already a delta.
• Dedup-safe by construction. Every run records which dates it already processed in the Actor's key-value store. Re-run the same day, or recover from a failed run, and you'll never be charged for the same business record twice.
• One normalized schema, not a scrape-shaped grab bag: consistent field names, ISO dates, structured addresses, and a decoded entity-type label alongside the raw Sunbiz code.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.01 flat, once per run
Business record	$0.005 per new, deduplicated record

Worked example: 1,000 new Florida business filings ≈ 1,000 × $0.005 + $0.01 ≈ $5.01.

Records already delivered in a prior run are skipped entirely (see Dedup) — you're never billed twice for the same filing.

Input

{
  "mode": "new-filings",
  "startDate": "2026-07-01",
  "endDate": "2026-07-25",
  "entityTypeFilter": ["FLAL", "DOMP"],
  "searchTerm": "",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Field	Type	Notes
mode	"new-filings" | "backfill" | "search"	See Modes below.
startDate	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	Required for backfill / search. Ignored by new-filings.
endDate	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	Required for backfill / search; defaults to today.
entityTypeFilter	string[]	Sunbiz filing type codes, e.g. FLAL (Florida LLC), DOMP (domestic profit corp). Empty = all types.
searchTerm	string	search mode only — case-insensitive substring match on entity name.
maxItems	integer	Stop after this many records. 0 = unlimited.

Modes

• new-filings — the mode you schedule daily. Automatically resumes from the last date this Actor processed (tracked in its key-value store) and fetches only the business days since. First run defaults to "yesterday."
• backfill — fetch an explicit startDate..endDate range regardless of what's already been processed. Use this for a one-time historical load.
• search — fetch a date range and filter in-memory by entityTypeFilter / searchTerm. Doesn't mark dates as processed, so it never interferes with your new-filings schedule.

Output schema

{
  "documentNumber": "L26000123456",
  "entityName": "ACME COASTAL ROOFING LLC",
  "status": "active",
  "statusCode": "A",
  "entityType": "Florida Limited Liability Company",
  "entityTypeCode": "FLAL",
  "filingDate": "2026-07-24",
  "lastTransactionDate": "2026-07-24",
  "feiNumber": null,
  "hasMoreThanSixOfficers": false,
  "principalAddress": {
    "line1": "123 MAIN ST",
    "line2": null,
    "city": "ORLANDO",
    "state": "FL",
    "zip": "32801",
    "country": "US"
  },
  "mailingAddress": {
    "line1": "123 MAIN ST",
    "line2": null,
    "city": "ORLANDO",
    "state": "FL",
    "zip": "32801",
    "country": "US"
  },
  "registeredAgent": {
    "name": "REGISTERED AGENTS INC",
    "type": "C",
    "address": "100 AGENT WAY",
    "city": "TALLAHASSEE",
    "state": "FL",
    "zip": "323010000"
  },
  "annualReports": [],
  "sourceFile": "20260724c.txt"
}

Dedup (no double billing)

The Actor tracks which calendar dates it has already fetched and pushed in a named key-value store (SUNBIZ-DEDUP-STATE), independent of the run's dataset. In new-filings mode:

1. It looks up the last date it successfully processed.
2. It fetches only business days after that date through today.
3. Each date is marked processed only after its records are pushed.
4. Re-running the Actor for a date already marked processed fetches nothing and charges nothing.

backfill mode also checks and marks this state (so it composes safely with a new-filings schedule); search mode never marks dates processed, since it's a read/filter operation, not a delivery of "new" records.

Use cases

• Insurance & payroll lead gen — every new LLC needs workers' comp, payroll, and a business bank account within weeks of filing. This is the freshest possible signal.
• Web services / local marketing agencies — new entities need a website, a Google Business Profile, and local SEO before a competitor gets there first.
• KYC / compliance enrichment — registered agent and status fields feed entity-resolution pipelines without a manual Sunbiz lookup.

Quickstart

JavaScript (apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>" });

const run = await client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/fl-new-business-registrations").call({
  mode: "new-filings",
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

run = client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/fl-new-business-registrations").call(
    run_input={"mode": "new-filings"}
)

items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items)

CLI

apify call YOUR_USERNAME/fl-new-business-registrations \
  --input '{"mode": "new-filings"}'

For AI agents / MCP

This Actor's dataset output is plain, flat-ish JSON with stable field names — safe to hand to an LLM directly without a cleanup pass. If you're calling it from an MCP-connected agent, prefer mode: "search" with entityTypeFilter + searchTerm for a bounded, cheap query instead of a full backfill; maxItems caps spend per call. Apify's own Actors MCP Server can expose this Actor as a callable tool without any custom integration code.

Legal note

This Actor is unofficial and has no affiliation with the Florida Department of State or Sunbiz. Florida corporate filing data is a public record, published by the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations for public bulk redistribution (data downloads page). This Actor only reads that official public data feed — no authenticated areas, no personal/consumer data, no bot-wall circumvention. It does not include officer names, which the Division ships in a less reliably-documented part of the file layout (see Roadmap).

Roadmap

• Officer/registered-agent-signer detail (fields 37–78 of the Sunbiz record) once byte-offset verification is complete.
• Multi-state expansion — Colorado, Washington, Texas, and Ohio next; all publish comparable bulk business-filing feeds.
• Webhook / push delivery for new-filings runs instead of poll-on-schedule.

Local development

npm install
npm test                 # unit tests against a byte-aligned fixture, no network
npm run start:dry        # full pipeline against the fixture, no Apify platform, no SFTP

See ./DEPLOY.md for publishing to Apify.