Secretary of State Business Search - Colorado & New York LLC

Run a Colorado business search or look up a New York LLC in the official Secretary of State records, or get every new LLC and corporation filed since a date as a lead feed. One clean row per business entity: name, entity ID, type, status, formation date, principal address and registered agent company.

What does it do?

The actor reads the official open data that the Colorado Secretary of State (data.colorado.gov, public domain) and the New York Department of State (data.ny.gov) publish for their business registers. It does not scrape the SOS search portals, so there are no captchas, no logins and no broken runs when a portal changes its layout.

• Colorado: all 3.1 million entities on the register, active and inactive (Good Standing, Delinquent, Dissolved and so on).
• New York: the 4.3 million active corporations, LLCs, partnerships and nonprofits filed with the Department of State.
• About 3,500 new entities per week in each state, usually visible the day after filing.

Other states are not covered yet. If you need one, open an issue (see Support).

Who is it for?

• KYB and compliance teams: check that a customer or supplier exists, its exact legal name, type, formation date and status.
• Lenders and fintechs: verify business age before an application.
• B2B lead generation: a weekly list of brand-new Colorado and New York businesses (insurance, accounting, payroll, banking, web design, signage).
• Registered agent and formation services, researchers: track filings by type, city or county.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Choose the States (Colorado, New York or both).
3. Either type Business names (a part of the name is enough, for example Blue Sky), or leave names empty and set Formed within the last N days for new filings.
4. Optional: limit Entity types (LLC, corporation, nonprofit, partnership), Cities or counties, or keep Only entities in good standing (Colorado).
5. Set Max results and click Start. Download the rows as CSV, Excel or JSON.

For a new-business feed, save the input as a task with Only entities not delivered in earlier runs turned on and add a daily or weekly schedule: each run returns and charges only filings you have not received yet.

Input parameters

Field	What it does	Default
states	CO, NY or both	both
businessNames	Name contains this text, case-insensitive; one search per name and state	empty
formedWithinDays	Entities formed in the last N days	7 when no names and no dates are given
formedFrom, formedTo	Formation date range, YYYY-MM-DD	empty
entityTypes	llc, corporation, nonprofit, partnership	all
cities	Colorado principal office city; New York county or process-address city	all
onlyGoodStanding	Colorado entities in Good Standing only	false
onlyNewEntities	Skip entities delivered by earlier runs of the same search	false
maxItems	Total rows, shared fairly between states and names	100

Results come newest formation date first.

Example: new LLCs in Denver formed in September 2026, good standing only:

{
  "states": ["CO"],
  "formedFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "formedTo": "2026-09-30",
  "entityTypes": ["llc"],
  "cities": ["Denver"],
  "onlyGoodStanding": true,
  "maxItems": 30
}

Output

Field	Example
state	CO
entityId	20268220973 (Colorado entity ID, New York DOS ID)
entityName	Plain Yogurt Outfitters L.L.C.
entityType, entityTypeCode	Domestic Limited Liability Company, DLLC
status	Good Standing (New York rows are always Active)
formationDate	2026-09-30
jurisdictionOfFormation	CO
principalAddress, principalStreet, principalCity, principalState, principalZip	1500 N Grant St, Ste N, Denver, CO, 80203
county	New York only, for example Kings
registeredAgentCompany, registeredAgentAddress	Northwest Registered Agent LLC
serviceOfProcessName, serviceOfProcessAddress	New York only, when it names a company
sourceUrl, source	Colorado SOS detail page, data source

A Colorado row from a QA run on 2026-10-13 (run Sr02hYQbPjIawCJXC), unchanged:

{
  "state": "CO",
  "entityId": "20268220973",
  "entityName": "Plain Yogurt Outfitters L.L.C.",
  "entityType": "Domestic Limited Liability Company",
  "entityTypeCode": "DLLC",
  "status": "Good Standing",
  "formationDate": "2026-09-30",
  "jurisdictionOfFormation": "CO",
  "principalAddress": "1500 N Grant St, Ste N, Denver, CO, 80203",
  "principalCity": "Denver",
  "principalZip": "80203",
  "registeredAgentCompany": "Northwest Registered Agent LLC",
  "registeredAgentAddress": "1500 N Grant St Ste N, Denver, CO, 80203",
  "registeredAgentIsIndividual": false,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityDetail.do?masterFileId=20268220973"
}

A New York row from a test run on 2026-10-13, shortened to the filled fields:

{
  "state": "NY",
  "entityId": "8043127",
  "entityName": "MECA DME SUPPLY CORP.",
  "entityType": "Domestic Business Corporation",
  "status": "Active",
  "formationDate": "2026-10-12",
  "jurisdictionOfFormation": "New York",
  "county": "New York",
  "serviceOfProcessName": "Meca Dme Supply Corp.",
  "serviceOfProcessAddress": "2365 nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11210"
}

Privacy by design: registered agents and process recipients are often private persons. Their names and addresses are never returned; registeredAgentIsIndividual only tells you that the agent is a person. Officers, chairmen and owners are not collected.

How much does it cost?

You pay per delivered entity: $2.00 per 1,000 entities ($0.002 per entity) on the Free plan, with Store discounts on paid Apify plans: Bronze $1.80, Silver $1.70, Gold and above $1.60 per 1,000 entities. Platform usage is included.

Worked example: a weekly feed that delivers 2,500 new entities = 2,500 x $0.002 = $5.00 per week on the Free plan. Narrow it with entity types and cities to pay only for the filings you need. A single name lookup that returns 10 entities costs $0.02. Rows skipped by Only entities not delivered in earlier runs are not charged.

API and integrations

Call it from your own code with the Apify API or the apify-client package, schedule it in Apify, or send the rows to Make, n8n, Zapier, Google Sheets, HubSpot or a webhook.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("kamerozkan/secretary-of-state-business-search").call(
    run_input={"businessNames": ["Blue Sky"], "states": ["CO", "NY"], "maxItems": 50}
)
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row["state"], row["entityName"], row["status"], row["formationDate"])

FAQ

Which states are covered?

Colorado and New York, the two large registers with complete official open data. More open-data states (Oregon, Iowa, Connecticut) may follow; ask for yours in Issues.

Why are New York rows always "Active"?

The New York Department of State publishes active entities only. Dissolved New York entities are not in the data set, so they never appear.

How fresh is the data?

Both states update their open data daily. New filings usually appear the next day.

Can I search by registered agent or owner?

No. The actor searches by entity name, date, type and place. Personal data of individuals is not returned.

Is this an official Secretary of State product?

No. It reads the public open data the states publish. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Colorado Secretary of State or the New York Department of State.

Support and feedback

• Found a bug or missing a field? Open an issue on the Issues tab of this Actor. We reply within 48 hours and ship most fixes within a few days.
• Need another state? Issues are the fastest way to get it built.
• If the Actor saves you time, a short review on this page helps other users find it.