City Business License Leads — New Business Lead Feed (API)

A multi-city new business-license lead feed. This actor normalizes newly issued business licenses across major US cities into one clean schema with a "new since date" delta, NAICS / industry tags, and address + phone fields — purpose-built for local-services lead generation. Sourced from official municipal open-data portals (Socrata). Keyless, no anti-bot, no scraping.

Who it's for

• Local-services lead gen — insurance, POS/merchant services, payroll, business banking, and B2B SaaS that sell to brand-new businesses.
• Sales & RevOps teams building a fresh-leads pipeline of just-licensed companies.
• Data / list providers enriching company records with city, NAICS, and address.
• AI agents needing a "find newly licensed businesses in a city" tool.

What it does

Pulls the latest business licenses from each selected city, filters to the ones issued after your since date, and returns a normalized record per license. Run it on a schedule (e.g. daily with since = yesterday) and it becomes a recurring new-business alert you can route straight into your CRM.

Live cities

City	Source dataset	Extras
Chicago	Business Licenses (r5kz-chrr)	ward, geo, expiration
Los Angeles	Listing of Active Businesses (6rrh-rzua)	NAICS, council district, geo
San Francisco	Registered Business Locations (g8m3-pdis)	geo, DBA
New York City	Legally Operating Businesses / DCWP (w7w3-xahh)	phone, borough, geo, expiration
Seattle	Active Business License Tax Certificate (wnbq-64tb)	NAICS, phone

Coming soon (scaffolded): San Diego, Boston, Austin, Kansas City, Baton Rouge.

Example input

{
  "cities": ["chicago", "new-york", "seattle"],
  "since": "2026-07-01",
  "naics": "72",
  "maxResults": 1000
}

Output (per license)

city, business_name, dba, license_type, license_description, naics, issue_date, start_date, expiration_date, address, city_name, state, zip, ward_or_district, latitude, longitude, phone, record_id, source_url, retrieved_at. Dates are normalized to YYYY-MM-DD.

Use as an MCP tool

Exposed to AI agents via mcp.apify.com as a "new business license lookup" tool. Clean inputs (cities, since date, name, license type, NAICS) and a fully described, chainable output schema make it easy for an agent to pull fresh business leads.

FAQ

How do I get only brand-new businesses? Set since to a recent date and run on a schedule — you get only licenses issued after it. Which cities have NAICS? Los Angeles and Seattle. Which have a phone number? New York City and Seattle. Can I filter by industry? Yes — use the naics prefix (e.g. 72) or a licenseType fragment (e.g. restaurant). Any captchas or logins? No — this is official city open data, queried by API. Can I search a specific company? Yes — use the name filter.

Source

Official municipal open-data portals (Socrata) for each city. Canonical data.<city>.gov hosts. An optional socrataAppToken raises rate limits.

Pricing (Pay Per Result)

Billed per license record returned. Empty result sets cost nothing.