Colorado Business Entity Search — Secretary of State Registry

Colorado's Secretary of State publishes the full business entity register as open data, including the registered agent for every entity. This actor searches it by name or entity ID and returns the record with both the principal address and the agent's — which is more contact detail than most US state registries expose — plus the dissolution date and latest status event the register keeps.

No API key · Official source · Pay only for delivered rows · Same schema across the series

What data do you get?

Field	Description
companyName	Entity name, without the status note the register appends to it (", Dissolved August 1, 1998")
registrationNumber	Colorado entity ID
status	Normalized entity status
statusRaw	The Secretary of State's own status wording
legalForm	Entity type code (DLLC, DPC, FPC …)
incorporatedOn	Entity formation date
dissolvedOn	Dissolution date, for entities whose current status is not active
statusEvent, statusEventOn	Latest status event noted in the entity's name — Dissolved, Delinquent, Delinquency Cured, Reinstated, Colorado Authority Relinquished or Terminated — and its date
jurisdiction	Jurisdiction of formation
address	Principal office address
city, state, postalCode, countryName	Principal office location
mailingAddress	Mailing address, when it differs from the principal office
registeredAgent	Registered agent — a person or a registered-agent company
registeredAgentAddress	Registered agent address
taxNumber, taxNumberSource	EIN and where it comes from: SEC EDGAR (exchange-listed companies) or the IRS exempt-organization file (nonprofits)
industryCode, industry, industryClassification	SIC code and description (listed companies) or NTEE code and major group (nonprofits)
ticker, secCik	Stock ticker and EDGAR CIK (listed companies)
phone	Business phone: EDGAR (listed companies) or the newest e-filed IRS 990 (nonprofits)
capital, capitalAsOf	Total stockholders' equity (USD) from the latest 10-K/10-Q, and its date (listed companies)
employees, employeesAsOf	Headcount stated in the latest 10-K (listed companies) or on the newest Form 990 (nonprofits; 990-EZ and 990-PF have no headcount line), and that period
website	The website the 10-K names as the company's own (listed companies), or the one on the newest e-filed 990 (nonprofits)
officers, officersSource	Listed companies: directors and officers who filed SEC insider reports in the newest published quarter. Nonprofits: the officer who signed the newest e-filed 990 and the officers, directors, trustees and key employees it lists (up to 25). With their titles
nonprofitReturnSource	The IRS return a nonprofit's phone, website, headcount and officers come from (form and tax year end)
nonprofitRevenue, nonprofitAssets, taxExemptSince	Revenue and assets on the latest IRS return, and the month of the exemption ruling (nonprofits)
sourceUrl	Colorado business database search

Every row also carries query (what you asked for), scrapedAt (ISO timestamp) and, when a lookup fails, error explaining why.

Not in the register. email stays null: no public source gives it. taxNumber, industry, phone, website, employees, capital and officers come from federal sources and are filled only where an entity is identified there — listed companies through the SEC, nonprofits through the IRS (below). A private company, the bulk of the register, has no public source for them.

Example output

A real row from the prefilled run (officers shortened: 10 in full):

{
  "country": "US",
  "registry": "Colorado Secretary of State — Business Entities",
  "companyName": "Palantir Technologies Inc.",
  "registrationNumber": "20201707433",
  "status": "active",
  "statusRaw": "Good Standing",
  "legalForm": "FPC",
  "incorporatedOn": "2020-08-18",
  "dissolvedOn": null,
  "statusEvent": null,
  "statusEventOn": null,
  "jurisdiction": "DE",
  "address": "19505 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 2350, Aventura, FL, 33180, United States",
  "city": "Aventura",
  "state": "FL",
  "postalCode": "33180",
  "countryName": "United States",
  "taxNumber": "68-0551851",
  "taxNumberSource": "SEC EDGAR",
  "industry": "Services-Prepackaged Software",
  "industryCode": "7372",
  "industryClassification": "SIC",
  "phone": "720-358-3679",
  "website": "https://www.palantir.com",
  "employees": 4429,
  "employeesAsOf": "2025-12-31",
  "capital": 9774194000,
  "capitalAsOf": "2026-06-30",
  "officers": [
    { "name": "Karp Alexander C.", "role": "Director, Chief Executive Officer", "appointedOn": null },
    { "name": "Glazer David A.", "role": "Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer", "appointedOn": null }
  ],
  "officersSource": "SEC insider filings, 2026-Q2",
  "ticker": "PLTR",
  "secCik": "1321655",
  "mailingAddress": null,
  "registeredAgent": "C T CORPORATION SYSTEM",
  "registeredAgentAddress": "7700 E Arapahoe Rd Ste 220, Centennial, CO, 80112, United States",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityCriteriaExt.do"
}

A nonprofit gets its EIN from the IRS instead — FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES, INC.: "taxNumber": "84-0772672", "industryCode": "K31Z", "industry": "Food, Agriculture & Nutrition", "nonprofitRevenue": 175976147. A dissolved entity from the same run reads "companyName": "Palantir Investments LLC", "statusRaw": "Voluntarily Dissolved", "dissolvedOn": "2015-07-13".

Input

{
  "queries": ["Palantir","Ibotta","Crocs"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "includeRaw": false
}

Input	What it does
queries	Entity names (Palantir, Ibotta) or numeric Colorado entity IDs.
maxResultsPerQuery	Caps how many rows one query may produce.
maxConcurrency	How many queries run at once. Lower it if the source starts throttling.
includeRaw	Attaches the source's untouched record under raw, for fields this actor does not map.
requestDelayMs	Politeness delay between requests.
proxyConfiguration	Optional. The Socrata API is open and rarely needs a proxy.

What people use it for

• Entity verification — confirm a Colorado counterparty exists and is in good standing.
• Registered agent contact — the agent address is a legally reliable point of contact.
• Local market research — search a keyword and count active entities by city or formation year.

Notes and limits

• Registered-agent fields often name a natural person. That is public in Colorado, but it is still personal data under most privacy regimes. Many entities use a registered-agent company instead, which registeredAgent names as such.
• Federal matches are by name, so they are strict. Listed companies: the exact name, legal suffix included, an active entity, and a state of incorporation that agrees with the register (EDGAR's list of exchange-listed companies is read once per run). Nonprofits: exactly one IRS exempt organization with the same name at the same ZIP (the IRS file for the entity's state is read once per run). Anything less certain stays empty — most private companies have no public EIN at all.
• A status note stays in the register's name after the status changes again (an entity reinstated after dissolution can still be named "…, Dissolved …"), so dissolvedOn is only set while the entity's current status is not active; the note itself is always in statusEvent.
• Status wording is Colorado's own (Good Standing, Delinquent, Voluntarily Dissolved); status normalizes it and statusRaw keeps the original.

Where the data comes from

The Colorado Secretary of State publishes the business entity register through the state Socrata open-data API with no key; EINs and industry codes come from SEC EDGAR and the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File. Sources: Colorado Information Marketplace — Business Entities, SEC EDGAR, IRS EO BMF

FAQ

Is this Colorado business entity scraper free?

The data source is free and needs no API key — you pay only for the rows the run delivers ($0.004 each). Failed or empty lookups are never charged.

Do I need an API key or a login?

No. The Colorado Secretary of State publishes the business entity register through the state Socrata open-data API with no key.

What can I search by?

Both. A numeric query is looked up as an entity ID; anything else runs a contains-match on the entity name.

How current is the data?

Every run queries the source live, so results are as fresh as the source itself. The Secretary of State refreshes the dataset regularly.

How fast is it, and how many queries can I run?

Queries run concurrently (4 at a time by default, tunable in the input). A prefilled run finishes in seconds; large lists scale roughly linearly and stay well inside a normal run timeout.

Can I export the results to CSV, Excel or JSON?

Yes. Apify datasets export to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML and HTML, and can be pulled through the API or pushed to your own storage.

What happens when a query returns nothing?

You still get a row, carrying your original query and an error field explaining why. Nothing is silently dropped, and you are not charged for it.

Is scraping this data legal?

Yes. Colorado publishes the entity register as open data; business filings are public records. Registered-agent records name individuals — that is personal data, so handle it accordingly.

Changelog

0.1.10 — 2026-09-25 — nonprofits: phone, website, headcount and officers from their 990

• Nonprofits with an EIN get the contents of their newest e-filed Form 990, 990-EZ or 990-PF: phone, website, employees (Form 990 only), officers (the signing officer plus the officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed, up to 25) and new nonprofitReturnSource. Food Bank of the Rockies: 303-371-9250, https://www.foodbankrockies.org, 303 employees, 25 people (tax year ending 2025-06-30). Read from the IRS's own e-file releases through a monthly-rebuilt foXLabs index of every Colorado exempt organization that e-files (14,332; the smallest file only the 990-N postcard, which carries none of this).
• Across those 14,332 returns: phone 84–96% by form, officers 100%, website 74% on Form 990 (54% 990-EZ, 19% 990-PF), headcount on every Form 990.
• An EDGAR placeholder EIN of zeros is no longer passed on.
• No pricing change.

0.1.9 — 2026-09-25 — listed companies: equity, headcount, website, officers

• For entities matched to an exchange-listed company, the remaining company fields are filled from the SEC:
  • capital — total stockholders' equity from the latest 10-K/10-Q XBRL, with capitalAsOf (Palantir Technologies Inc.: $9,774,194,000 at 2026-06-30).
  • employees — the headcount the latest 10-K states ("we had 4,429 full-time employees"), with employeesAsOf.
  • website — the site the 10-K names as the company's own (an investor-relations subdomain is reduced to the company domain).
  • officers — directors and officers who filed insider reports (Forms 3/4/5) in the newest published quarter, with their filed titles; officersSource names the quarter. People who did not file that quarter are not listed.
• Private companies and nonprofits are unchanged: no public source gives their headcount, capital or officers.
• No pricing change.

0.1.8 — 2026-09-25 — EIN and industry from federal sources

• taxNumber, industry and industryCode are filled where a federal source identifies the entity, with the source in taxNumberSource:
  • Exchange-listed companies — SEC EDGAR: EIN, SIC code and description, business phone, plus new ticker and secCik. Palantir Technologies Inc. → 68-0551851, 7372, PLTR. The match is strict: the exact name (legal suffix included), an active entity, and a state of incorporation that agrees with the register's jurisdiction — where EDGAR records none, only a foreign registration qualifies. The merged "CROCS, INC." and "CROCS, LTD." are therefore left alone; Crocs, Inc. is matched.
  • Nonprofits — IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File: EIN, NTEE code and major group, plus new nonprofitRevenue, nonprofitAssets and taxExemptSince, when exactly one exempt organization has the same name at the same ZIP code. Food Bank of the Rockies → 84-0772672, K31Z (Food, Agriculture & Nutrition), $175,976,147 revenue. Established nonprofits match about 40% of the time, new ones rarely (they are not in the IRS file yet).
• New industryClassification (SIC or NTEE). In the prefilled run taxNumber goes from 0% to 17%.
• SEC requests identify the actor and a contact address, as the SEC's fair-access policy asks.
• No pricing change.

0.1.7 — 2026-09-25 — registered agents, dissolution dates and clean names

• registeredAgent was empty whenever the agent is a company — C T Corporation System, Registered Agents Inc and the like: 717,088 entities, nearly a quarter of the register. It now names them: 43% → 96% of rows in the prefilled run.
• dissolvedOn is filled for dissolved entities. The register keeps the date only inside the name ("PALANTIR EXPLORATION SERVICES, INC., Dissolved December 2, 2018"); it is now read from there, and companyName comes back without the note. Other notes (Delinquent, Reinstated, Colorado Authority Relinquished …) move to the new statusEvent / statusEventOn.
• countryName and the country in the addresses read United States instead of the code US. New mailingAddress when it differs from the principal office.
• README example replaced with a real row (the old one showed an entity ID and formation date that are not Palantir's, and entity type and jurisdiction in a form the actor never returns).
• No pricing change.

Related actors

• New York Business Entity Search
• Connecticut Business Registry Search

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