New Business Formation Monitor — new LLCs & corps (US states)

What is New Business Formation Monitor for?

A company that was registered yesterday has no bank, no insurance, no accountant, no website and no payroll provider yet. This Actor reads the official business registries that US states publish as open data and returns the newly formed LLCs, corporations and nonprofits, filtered by state, entity type, name keyword, city, county and ZIP. In monitor mode it returns only the entities it has not shown you before, so a daily schedule becomes a clean feed of new companies.

Typical users:

• Banks, insurers, accountants, payroll and POS vendors prospecting brand-new businesses in their territory.
• Registered-agent and formation services watching which competitors (LegalZoom, Northwest, ZenBusiness…) are forming the most entities.
• Local media, chambers of commerce and economic developers tracking formation activity by city or county.
• AI agents and workflows that need a JSON feed of "companies founded this week" without scraping Secretary-of-State portals.

Everything comes from the states' own Socrata open-data APIs: no scraping, no proxies, no login.

Sample output

An entity record (Colorado):

{
  "type": "entity",
  "change": "new",
  "entityId": "CO:20268119881",
  "state": "CO",
  "registryId": "20268119881",
  "name": "MARJAN FLOWERS LLC",
  "entityType": "DLLC",
  "category": "llc",
  "foreign": false,
  "status": "Good Standing",
  "formedDate": "2026-09-03",
  "jurisdiction": "CO",
  "address": "1500 N GRANT ST 5656",
  "city": "DENVER",
  "addressState": "CO",
  "zip": "80203",
  "county": null,
  "registeredAgent": "Colorado Registered Agents Inc",
  "email": null,
  "naics": null,
  "sourceUrl": null,
  "sourceDataset": "https://data.colorado.gov/d/4ykn-tg5h",
  "checkedAt": "2026-09-05T03:20:11.000Z",
  "llmSummary": "MARJAN FLOWERS LLC — DLLC registered in CO on 2026-09-03, DENVER, CO 80203; registered agent Colorado Registered Agents Inc."
}

The first record of every run is a summary with counts per state and category, the share with a registered-agent firm and the most frequent agent firms.

What you get

Field	Meaning
entityId	STATE:registry id, stable across runs
name, entityType, category	Registered name, the state's own type code, and a normalised category (llc, corporation, nonprofit, partnership, other)
foreign	Formed in another state/country and registering to do business here
status	Registry status where published (Colorado, Connecticut)
formedDate	Formation / registration date (YYYY-MM-DD)
jurisdiction	Home jurisdiction
address, city, addressState, zip, county	Principal (or service-of-process) address as filed
registeredAgent	Registered-agent firm name where published. Individual agents are omitted
email, naics	Business e-mail and NAICS text (Connecticut only)
sourceUrl	Link to the registry record (Oregon only)
change	new (monitor mode), baseline (first run with emitBaseline) or snapshot
llmSummary	One-sentence description for LLM agents and alerts

Coverage

State	Dataset	Updates	New entities / day	Agent firm	Address	Notes
Colorado	4ykn-tg5h	daily	~500	yes (about half)	yes + status	Best schema
New York	n9v6-gdp6	daily	~680	partial	service-of-process address, county	Active entities only
Connecticut	n7gp-d28j	nightly	~170	yes (via agents dataset)	yes + status, NAICS, e-mail
Pennsylvania	xvd7-5r2c	daily (1–3 day lag)	~250	no	yes + county
Oregon	tckn-sxa6	monthly	~155	yes (organisations)	yes + record link	Use daysBack 30+ and a monthly schedule

Personal names (organizers, incorporators, individual agents, officers) are never exported.

Settings

Input	Default	Notes
states	CO, NY, CT, PA	Any subset of the five
categories	–	llc, corporation, nonprofit, partnership, other. Empty = all
includeForeign	true	Set false for domestic formations only
keywords / excludeKeywords	–	Any-match against the name (and NAICS text in CT)
cities, counties, zipPrefixes	–	Location filters on the principal address. Counties: NY and PA only
agentOnly	false	Only entities with a registered-agent firm
daysBack	3	Formation-date window (1–60)
mode	monitor	monitor = only entities not seen before; snapshot = everything matching
watchlistId	default	Name for the memory of a watch. Filters are part of the key too
emitBaseline	false	Emit the current entities on the first run of a watch (charged)
maxEntities	5000	Cap per run, most recent first
socrataAppToken	–	Optional; raises the open-data rate limit

Monitor mode, watchlists and the free first run

1. Choose a watchlistId (e.g. denver-llcs) and your filters. Run once. The first run is a free baseline: the Actor remembers the entities currently in the window and returns only a summary (no entity records are charged) unless emitBaseline is on.
2. Schedule the same input daily. Each later run returns only entities registered since the last run and charges only for those.
3. Different watchlists keep separate memories. Changing filters starts a new baseline for that watchlist.

Pricing: one run-summary event per non-baseline run, one entity event per entity record.

Example: new LLCs in Denver and Brooklyn, daily

{
  "states": ["CO", "NY"],
  "categories": ["llc"],
  "includeForeign": false,
  "cities": ["Denver", "Brooklyn"],
  "daysBack": 3,
  "mode": "monitor",
  "watchlistId": "denver-brooklyn-llcs"
}

Notes and limits

• States publish with a one-to-three-day lag; daysBack 3 with a daily schedule catches everything.
• New York's dataset lists active entities only and has no status column; its address is the service-of-process address, which is usually the company's own.
• Pennsylvania has no status or agent columns.
• Oregon refreshes around the first of each month.
• Results are official public records provided as-is; verify with the Secretary of State before relying on them.

日本語

米国5州(コロラド、ニューヨーク、コネチカット、ペンシルベニア、オレゴン)の州政府が公式オープンデータとして公開する新設法人(LLC・株式会社・非営利)を取得します。州・法人種別・社名キーワード・市・郡・ZIP で絞り込み、公開されている場合は登録代理人(Registered Agent)の会社名も付きます。monitor モードでは前回以降に登録された法人だけを返し、初回はベースライン(無課金)です。個人名は出力しません。