Multi-State Corporate & Business Entity Registry (CO, CT, OR)

Pain points

• Each state publishes business-entity filings on its own open-data portal, in its own column names and shapes.
• Tracking new formations daily means polling every state's API yourself and diffing against yesterday's pull.
• Building that ingestion — auth, pagination, normalization, scheduling — for three-plus states is real engineering work for what is ultimately a free public feed.

What we solve

• One run pulls new or existing business entities across multiple states' official registries at once.
• Results normalized to the same fields no matter which state they came from.
• Delta pulls via a since-date filter — get just today's new formations instead of re-pulling the whole roster.
• Optional business-name search across the existing roster, not just new formations.
• Pay only per record returned — empty pulls are free.

Summary

Track new business formations and pull the existing entity roster across multiple states' official open-data registries in one run, normalized to a single schema instead of three different raw JSON shapes. Give a date to pull just that day's new registrations (a daily delta), or a business-name substring to search the existing roster. Every row returns entity ID, name, type, status, formation date, principal & mailing address, and registered agent where the state publishes one. Built for credit-data aggregators, alt-data funds, and macro/local-economy analysts who track business formations as a leading indicator and don't want to build+maintain their own per-state Socrata ingestion. Covers Colorado, Connecticut, and Oregon; coverage grows as more Socrata-hosted states are added.

Who it's for

• Alt-data funds and analysts tracking new business formations as a leading economic indicator
• Credit-data aggregators enriching commercial credit files with entity registration data
• Local-economy and regional research teams monitoring business formation trends by state/county
• RevOps and data teams building a scheduled feed of newly formed businesses to enrich lead lists

How to use

Set the input, run the actor, and collect results from the run's dataset (export to JSON/CSV/Excel, or pull via the Apify API). Example input:

{
  "states": [
    "CO",
    "CT",
    "OR"
  ],
  "sinceDate": "2026-07-06",
  "maxResults": 500
}

See Inputs below for every available field.

What you get

One row per record:

Field	Description
state	2-letter state code the entity is registered in
entity_id	State-assigned entity/registry number
entity_name	Registered business/entity name
entity_type	State's raw entity-type code (e.g. LLC, corporation)
status	Entity status where the state publishes it (e.g. Good Standing, Active)
formation_date	Date the entity was formed/registered
jurisdiction	State/jurisdiction of formation
principal_address / principal_city / principal_state / principal_zip	Principal place of business location
mailing_address / mailing_city / mailing_state / mailing_zip	Mailing address, where the state publishes one separately
agent_name / agent_address / agent_city / agent_state / agent_zip	Registered agent, where published
source_url	The state's official business-entity search page

Sample:

{
  "state": "CO",
  "entity_id": "20251665680",
  "entity_name": "KYLDERON MIST VALLEY LLC",
  "entity_type": "DLLC",
  "status": "Good Standing",
  "formation_date": "2025-06-16T00:00:00.000",
  "jurisdiction": "CO",
  "principal_address": "660 Willow Wood Ln",
  "principal_city": "Delta",
  "principal_state": "CO",
  "principal_zip": "81416",
  "agent_name": "KEQIANG DENG",
  "agent_address": "660 Willow Wood Ln",
  "agent_city": "Delta",
  "agent_state": "CO",
  "agent_zip": "81416",
  "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/biz/BusinessEntityCriteriaExt.do"
}

Inputs

Field	Required	Type	Default	Description
states	no	array	—	Which states to pull (2-letter codes). Leave empty to pull all supported states. Supported: CO, CT, OR.
sinceDate	no	string	—	Only return entities formed/registered on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave empty to pull the most recent entities regardless of date — set this (e.g. to yesterday) for a daily-delta run.
query	no	string	—	Optional substring match on business/entity name. Leave empty to pull the newest entities instead of searching by name.
maxResults	no	integer	100	Cap on records returned across all selected states (bounds cost).
proxyConfiguration	no	object	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Optional. The state open-data APIs are reachable directly; a proxy is not needed.

Pricing (Pay Per Event)

You pay per result (dataset-item) — no charge for empty runs. Example: 2000 entity records at $0.0015/result ≈ $3.00.

You're only charged per entity record returned — pulls with no matches are free. Apify platform usage (compute) is billed separately per your plan.

Use cases

• Leading-indicator tracking — an alt-data analyst schedules a daily run with sinceDate=yesterday to pull every new formation across CO, CT & OR as a economic-activity signal.
• Commercial credit enrichment — a credit-data aggregator appends entity ID, status, and registered-agent data to its business records without building per-state ingestion.
• Lead-list enrichment — RevOps pulls newly formed LLCs in a state to feed a fresh-business outreach list.
• Regional research — an analyst searches the existing roster by name substring to confirm a specific entity's registration status and formation date.

Why this actor

• One run across multiple states' official open-data registries instead of separate per-state polling.
• Normalized output: the same fields regardless of which state an entity came from.
• Delta-only pulls (since-date filter) so a daily schedule returns just what's new, not the whole roster.

Limitations & updates

Covers only the states listed (currently CO, CT, OR) — each backed by that state's official Socrata open-data registry; more states are added as they're confirmed to publish one (several states advertise business-entity open data but don't actually expose it via a queryable Socrata dataset, e.g. Washington's is an external search link, not an API). Registered-agent detail varies: Colorado publishes agent name and address, Oregon's principal-place-of-business feed doesn't include one, Connecticut publishes agents in a separate dataset not yet joined in. Data reflects each state's published feed, which the states refresh on their own cadence (typically daily).

FAQ

Which states are covered?

Colorado, Connecticut, and Oregon today. All three are confirmed live on their state's Socrata open-data platform; more Socrata-hosted states are added over time. Pick states with the states input, or leave it empty to pull all.

Where does the data come from?

Each state's official open-data business-entity registry (Colorado SOS, Connecticut Business Registry, Oregon SOS). It's public, non-personal registration data, not a third-party copy.

How do I get just today's new formations?

Set sinceDate to a date (e.g. yesterday) and the actor filters to entities formed/registered on or after that date. Schedule the actor daily with a rolling sinceDate for a true delta feed.

Can I search the existing roster instead of pulling new formations?

Yes — set query to a business-name substring and leave sinceDate empty to search across all registered entities, not just new ones.

How am I charged?

Pay-per-result: you're charged per entity record returned. Pulls that return nothing are free.

Do all states return the same fields?

Core fields (entity ID, name, type, formation date, principal address) are consistent. Some states add extras (Colorado publishes a registered agent and mailing address; Oregon's registry doesn't expose one in this feed) — anything a state doesn't publish comes back null.

Which actor to choose

Part of the Socrata open-data actor family — pick the one that fits your goal:

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