Connecticut Business Search — Diversity Ownership Flags 🏛️

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🎉 Search Connecticut's business registry and get something most registers never publish: five diversity-ownership flags — woman, veteran, minority, LGBTQI+ and disability-owned — on every single row, alongside the usual identity, status and address. No key, no login. Built for supplier-diversity programmes, procurement teams with set-aside targets, and anyone verifying a Connecticut entity.

🔍 What is this Actor — and when should you use it?

The Connecticut Secretary of the State publishes its business registry as open data, and uniquely tags each business with self-reported ownership characteristics. This Actor searches it by company name or registration number and returns one clean row per entity: legal name, status, registration date, addresses, jurisdiction, and the five ownership flags.

Use it when you need: a diverse-supplier list that is verifiable rather than self-declared in a form; Connecticut counterparty verification; annual-report due dates for a portfolio; or the entity's name in its state of formation.

Use something else when: the company is registered in another state — use the Texas or New York Actor. All three share this schema.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Already on the Apify MCP server? Ask for this Actor by name: foxlabs/usa-connecticut-company-data.

Your agent can pay for its own runs. This Actor is pay-per-event with agentic payments, so an agent can discover it, run it and settle the bill over x402 (USDC on Base) or Skyfire — no Apify account or API token of its own. Billing is the same either way: per delivered company row.

Otherwise paste this into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-enabled assistant:

Run the Apify actor foxlabs/usa-connecticut-company-data with
{"queries":["Priceline","Stanley Black & Decker"],"maxResultsPerQuery":10}
and flag which entities are woman-, veteran- or minority-owned.

📋 Overview

Source	Connecticut Secretary of the State — Business Registry
Coverage	Businesses registered in Connecticut
Auth needed	None. No API key, no login, no proxy required
Row	One Connecticut entity
Measured run	23 rows in 4.2 s for 3 queries (2026-09-20, build 0.1.8)
Pricing	$0.004 per delivered row — $4 per 1,000

✨ Features

• 🌈 Five diversity-ownership flags on every row — woman, veteran, minority, LGBTQI+, disability
• 🔎 Name or registration number in the same field
• 🗂️ Status and legal form with the registry's raw values kept
• 📮 Registered and mailing addresses as separate fields
• 🌐 Jurisdiction, citizenship and name-in-state-of-formation for out-of-state entities
• 📅 Annual report due date — a renewal signal for outreach timing

🎬 Quick Start

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/foxlabs~usa-connecticut-company-data/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries":["Priceline","Stanley Black & Decker","Indeed"],"maxResultsPerQuery":10}'

🚀 Getting Started (3 steps)

1. Put names or registration numbers into queries. Both work in the same field.
2. Set the breadth. maxResultsPerQuery caps matches per query.
3. Run it. Rows arrive in the dataset; export to CSV/JSON/Excel or read them over the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	array	["Priceline","Stanley Black & Decker","Indeed"]	Entity names or registration numbers
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	10	Cap on entities returned per query
maxConcurrency	integer	4	Parallel requests
requestDelayMs	integer	0	Optional pause between requests
includeRaw	boolean	false	Attach the untouched source record to each row
proxyConfiguration	object	proxy off	The open-data portal answers direct requests

Example — build a diverse-supplier shortlist:

{ "queries": ["construction"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 200 }

Then filter the output on isWomanOwned, isVeteranOwned, isMinorityOwned, isLgbtqiOwned or isDisabilityOwned.

Example — verify one entity:

{ "queries": ["1137850"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 1 }

📤 Output

One row per entity. Fill rates from the measured run (23 rows, 3 queries, 2026-09-20):

Field	Type	Fill	Description
companyName	string	100%	Registered name
registrationNumber	string	100%	Connecticut business id
status / statusRaw	string	100%	Standing, plus the registry's raw value
incorporatedOn	string	100%	Registration date
mailingAddress	string	100%	Mailing address as filed
countryName	string	100%	Country
isWomanOwned	boolean	100%	Self-reported woman-owned flag
isVeteranOwned	boolean	100%	Self-reported veteran-owned flag
isMinorityOwned	boolean	100%	Self-reported minority-owned flag
isLgbtqiOwned	boolean	100%	Self-reported LGBTQI+-owned flag
isDisabilityOwned	boolean	100%	Self-reported disability-owned flag
legalForm	string	96%	Entity type (LLC, corporation …)
citizenship	string	96%	Domestic or foreign to Connecticut
jurisdiction	string	87%	State of formation
address	string	87%	Principal address
beganTransactingOn	string	70%	Date the entity began transacting in CT
nameInStateOfFormation	string	70%	Name used in the home state, for foreign entities
city / postalCode / state	string	65%	Parsed address components
annualReportDueOn	string	65%	Next annual report due date
sourceUrl	string	100%	Registry lookup
country / registry / query / scrapedAt	string	100%	Provenance fields

The address components and annual-report date sit at 65% because a share of registry rows carry only a mailing address — mailingAddress is on every row and covers those. Columns the registry does not publish (tax number, dissolution date, industry, headcount, capital, website, e-mail, phone, officers) were removed rather than shipped permanently empty.

A real row from the default run:

{
  "companyName": "PRICELINE.COM LLC",
  "registrationNumber": "1137850",
  "status": "active",
  "statusRaw": "Active",
  "legalForm": "LLC",
  "incorporatedOn": "2014-04-01",
  "address": "800 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORWALK, CT, 06854",
  "city": "NORWALK",
  "postalCode": "06854"
}

💼 Use cases

• Supplier diversity — build a verifiable diverse-supplier list from a state register, not a questionnaire
• Set-aside procurement — filter candidates by ownership flags before an RFP
• Counterparty verification — confirm a Connecticut entity exists and is in good standing
• Renewal-timed outreach — annualReportDueOn marks when a business is handling filings
• Entity resolution — nameInStateOfFormation reconciles out-of-state names

🔗 Integration

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('foxlabs/usa-connecticut-company-data').call({
  queries: ['Priceline'], maxResultsPerQuery: 10,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("foxlabs/usa-connecticut-company-data").call(
    run_input={"queries": ["Priceline"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 10}
)
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items

No-code: Make, n8n and Zapier reach this Actor through the Apify app — schedule it and push entity checks into a CRM or a sheet.

📊 Pricing

Pay-per-event: company-record — $0.004 per delivered row ($4 per 1,000). Compute and traffic are included; you pay for rows, not run time. Rows without a company name are not charged.

View current pricing.

❓ FAQ

Are the diversity flags verified by the state? They are self-reported by the business when filing and published by the registry. This Actor returns them exactly as published — use them to shortlist, then verify through your own certification process.

Do I need a Connecticut account or key? No. The registry is open data; no key, login or proxy.

Can I search by registration number? Yes — put the number in queries.

Why do some rows lack a street address? A share of filings carry only a mailing address; mailingAddress is present on every row.

Does it include dissolved businesses? status reflects the registry's standing value, so inactive entities appear with their status shown.

Which other states do you cover? Texas and New York, on the same schema.

🐛 Troubleshooting

A common name returns many entities. Narrow with the registration number, or filter the output by city.

No results for a company you know is in CT. It may be registered under a different legal name — try nameInStateOfFormation spellings, or the parent entity.

A run reports a source error. The state's open-data portal occasionally returns a temporary error; re-run and it clears.

⚠️ Trademark

The Connecticut Secretary of the State is a state agency. This Actor is an independent tool, is not affiliated with or endorsed by the State of Connecticut, and reads only publicly published registry data.

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape this data?

Connecticut publishes its business registry as open data so the public can verify businesses. The rows this Actor returns are company records — business information. The ownership flags are self-reported business attributes rather than personal data about named individuals; sole proprietorships may nonetheless appear under a person's name, so treat those rows accordingly. You remain responsible for how you use the output.

🤝 Support & contact

Questions, a field you need, or a bug: info@foxlabs.com.tr — or open an issue on the Actor's Apify page.

Changelog

0.1.8

• Removed permanently-empty columns (tax number, dissolution date, industry, industry code, headcount, capital, website, e-mail, phone, officers) — the registry does not carry them. Row went from 37 columns to 27, with zero permanently-empty columns left.

0.1

• Connecticut business registry search by name or registration number, with diversity-ownership flags.
• Pay-per-event billing on delivered rows (company-record).