Florida New Business Registrations — Daily Leads Feed

A daily feed of newly registered Florida businesses, straight from the state's official bulk data files: entity name, filing type, principal and mailing address, registered agent, and up to six officers/members with addresses.

Florida registers 2,500–3,000 new entities every business day — new LLCs, corporations, partnerships and nonprofits. Each one is a brand-new prospect for merchant services, business insurance, payroll and bookkeeping, banking, web design, business credit, and every other B2B service that wants to be first in the door. Run this actor on a daily schedule and get only the registrations you haven't seen before, filtered to the regions, entity types and name patterns you care about.

Why this actor

• Bulk files, not portal scraping — most business-registry actors scrape search portals page by page: slow, rate-limited, and brittle. This actor reads the Florida Division of Corporations' own fixed-width daily files, the same data the state distributes to commercial resellers. Complete coverage, every business day.
• Dedupe across runs — document numbers already delivered are remembered in a named key-value store, so a daily scheduled run behaves like an alert subscription.
• Automatic catch-up — with no date given it scans the last lookbackDays days and picks up any business day it missed.
• Officer contacts included — each record carries the registered agent and the named officers/members (often the owner) with mailing addresses, in a dedicated "Officer contacts" results view ready for CSV export.

Input

Field	Description
fileDate	One specific business day, YYYYMMDD. Optional.
lookbackDays	Days back to scan when no fileDate is given (default 7).
onlyNew	Dedupe against previous runs (default true).
filingTypes	FLAL FL LLC, DOMP domestic corp, FORL foreign LLC, FORP foreign corp, DOMNP/FORNP nonprofits, DOMLP/FORLP LPs. Empty = all.
zipPrefixes	ZIP prefixes for principal/mailing address (e.g. 331 Miami, 336 Tampa, 328 Orlando).
nameContains	Case-insensitive substrings to match entity names (e.g. TRUCKING, ROOFING).
registeredAgentContains	Case-insensitive substrings to match the registered agent.
maxFilingAgeDays	Skip records filed more than this many days before publication (default 30) — filters out the occasional reinstatement carried in the daily file.
maxRecords	Cap output (0 = unlimited).

No input is required — the defaults produce the last week of new registrations statewide.

Output

One item per registered entity. Dates are normalized to YYYY-MM-DD. Officer name fields are cleaned of the state's fixed-column padding.

{
  "document_number": "L26000408050",
  "name": "SORINTH HOLDINGS LLC",
  "status": "A",
  "filing_type": "FLAL",
  "filing_type_label": "Florida limited liability company",
  "file_date": "2026-08-02",
  "fei_number": "",
  "principal_address": {
    "address_1": "13321 SOUTHWEST 256TH STREET",
    "city": "HOMESTEAD", "state": "", "zip_code": "33032", "country": ""
  },
  "mailing_address": { "...": "..." },
  "registered_agent": {
    "name": "JONES DERRICK", "type": "P",
    "address": "13321 SOUTHWEST 256TH STREET",
    "city": "HOMESTEAD", "state": "FL", "zip_code": "33032"
  },
  "officers": [
    {
      "title": "AMBR", "type": "P", "name": "JONES DERRICK",
      "address": "13321 SOUTHWEST 256TH STREET",
      "city": "HOMESTEAD", "state": "FL", "zip_code": "33032"
    }
  ],
  "feed_day": "2026-08-06",
  "source_file": "https://sftp.floridados.gov/Public/doc/cor/20260806c.txt"
}

Data source & access

The Florida Department of State publishes corporate filing data as fixed-length ASCII files (1,440 characters per record) on its public data-downloads host, one file per business day, using the state's published anonymous credentials.

• Files: https://sftp.floridados.gov/Public/doc/cor/YYYYMMDDc.txt
• Record layout: https://dos.sunbiz.org/data-definitions/cor.html
• Portal: Florida data downloads

Parsing is positional against the published layout. If the state changes the record length, the actor logs a warning naming the file and line rather than silently misaligning columns.

Business registrations are public records.

Pre-launch checklist

• Pull real daily files and run locally (apify run) — verified against 20260805c.txt and 20260806c.txt (2,729 filings on 8/6: 2,259 FL LLCs, 292 domestic corps, 74 foreign LLCs, ...), all offsets validated against the state's published layout.
• Fixed-width positional parser (the files are not delimited).
• Dedupe store + automatic catch-up, same pattern as the Florida lien feed.
• Register the PPE event: business-registration — "One business registration delivered" — suggested $0.003/record.

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