US Business Entity Search & New LLC Filings — Official State Registry Data (NY, CO, CT, OR, TX)

Search Secretary of State business entity records and pull newly registered LLCs and corporations every day, straight from each state's official open-data registry. No login, no CAPTCHA, no headless browser, so runs are fast and cheap and they don't break when a state redesigns its website.

Use it for KYB / business verification, new business leads (fresh LLC filings for B2B sales, insurance, accounting, banking, merchant services), registered agent lookups, and due diligence.

What you get

One clean, normalized record per business entity, whatever the state:

Field	Description
state	NY, CO, CT, OR, TX
entityName	Legal name
entityType	LLC, corporation, nonprofit… (the state's own wording)
status	Active / Good Standing / Delinquent / Dissolved…
formationDate	Formation or registration date (YYYY-MM-DD)
sourceId	State entity / registry / account number
principalAddress, mailingAddress	Street, city, state, ZIP
registeredAgent	Agent name and address (CO, NY, OR)
naics, businessEmail, ownership flags	Connecticut extras
sosFileNumber	Texas SOS file number
sourceDataset, sourcePublisher, sourceUrl, retrievedAt	Provenance for every record

Modes

• New filings: businesses formed in the last N days, newest first. Schedule it daily to get a fresh lead list.
• Search: look up entities by name (contains / starts with / exact), city, ZIP prefix or entity type.

Example input

{ "mode": "newFilings", "states": ["CO", "CT", "NY"], "lastNDays": 3, "maxResults": 2000 }

{ "mode": "search", "nameQuery": "coffee", "states": ["CO", "OR"], "activeOnly": true, "maxResults": 100 }

Example output (Colorado, real record)

{
  "state": "CO", "sourceId": "20268275661", "entityName": "ORYNTEX LLC", "entityType": "DLLC",
  "status": "Good Standing", "formationDate": "2026-10-18", "jurisdiction": "CO",
  "principalAddress": {"street": "308 Uvalda St", "city": "Aurora", "state": "CO", "zip": "80011", "country": "US"},
  "registeredAgent": {"name": "Artifact Uprising LLC", "street": "4045 Pecos Street Suite 250", "city": "Denver", "state": "CO", "zip": "80211"},
  "sourceDataset": "Business Entities in Colorado", "sourcePublisher": "Colorado Department of State",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.colorado.gov/d/4ykn-tg5h"
}

Data sources and freshness

State	Official dataset	Publisher	Coverage
NY	Active Corporations: Beginning 1800	NY Department of State	Active entities
CO	Business Entities in Colorado	CO Department of State	All statuses
CT	Business Registry – Business Master	CT Secretary of the State	All statuses
OR	Active Businesses – ALL	OR Secretary of State	Active entities
TX	Active Franchise Taxpayers	TX Comptroller	Active franchise-tax entities

Each state refreshes its portal on its own schedule. When we checked (Oct 19, 2026), the newest records were 1–2 days old for NY, CO and CT, and about a week old for OR. Texas posts new entities with a lag. Results are only as current as the state's dataset.

Pricing

Pay per result: you pay only for records delivered, and Max results caps your spend.

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. Every source is the state's own public open-data publication, accessed through the official Socrata API. The actor doesn't scrape any login-protected or CAPTCHA-protected pages. Using emails for outreach? You are responsible for complying with CAN-SPAM and similar laws. Set includeEmails: false to drop emails. Need more states? Open an issue. States are added as their official open datasets become available.