Colorado, Oregon & Connecticut Business Entity Search

Colorado, Oregon & Connecticut Business Entity Search looks up companies by name or state registry ID in the official Colorado, Connecticut and Oregon business registries and returns status, entity type, formation date, jurisdiction, business and mailing addresses and registered agents. It is built for KYC, vendor-verification, legal and sales teams that check companies in these three states, and costs USD 10 per 1,000 records on the FREE tier, charged only for records delivered.

No Secretary of State account, login or cookies are needed. The Actor queries the registry datasets the states publish on their open-data portals and links every record back to its source.

How do I search Colorado, Oregon and Connecticut business entities at once?

Enter up to 20 business names (or registry IDs), keep the three states selected, and run. Each term is searched in every selected state, and matches come back as one record per entity, mixed evenly across states.

{
  "searchTerms": ["NIKE, INC.", "Patagonia"],
  "states": ["CO", "CT", "OR"],
  "searchBy": "name",
  "matchMode": "contains",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 10,
  "maxTotalResults": 50,
  "includeRegisteredAgent": true
}

Input	Default	Notes
searchTerms	["NIKE, INC."]	1–20 business names or registry IDs
states	["CO", "CT", "OR"]	Any of CO, CT, OR
searchBy	name	name or registryId
matchMode	exact	exact, beginsWith or contains; case-insensitive; ignored for IDs
maxResultsPerSearch	10	1–50 candidates per term per state
maxTotalResults	25	1–500 unique records per run; also your cost cap
includeRegisteredAgent	true	Add registered or statutory agent name and address
requestDelayMs	350	100–5,000 ms between source requests

exact needs the full legal name, punctuation included (NIKE, INC.). Use contains or beginsWith when you only know part of the name.

What does each business registry record include?

One record per entity per state. Fields a state does not publish are null or empty.

Field	What it means
state	CO, CT or OR
registryId	State-issued entity ID or account number
businessName	Legal name as registered
entityType	Entity type as the state writes it (for example LLC, corporation, foreign corporation code)
status	Registry status, for example Good Standing, Withdrawn, Active
formationDate	Formation or registration date
jurisdiction	State or country of formation
businessAddress / mailingAddress	Principal and mailing addresses on file
registeredAgents	List of {name, address, role} for registered or statutory agents
matchedQueries / matchedBy	Which of your terms matched, and whether by name or ID
sourceDataset / sourceDatasetUrl / sourceQueryUrl	Source dataset name, its page, and the exact query used
dataSourceDisclaimer	Colorado's required data disclaimer (Colorado records only)
scrapedAt	Time of the lookup

The SUMMARY record in the key-value store lists records per state, failed searches, the source datasets and warnings.

When should you use it, and when not?

Use it to confirm that a company exists and is in good standing in Colorado or Connecticut, to find its registered agent before sending notices, to enrich a vendor or lead list with formation dates and addresses, or to check one company in all three states in a single run.

Pick something else when:

• The company is registered in New York. Use New York Business Entity Scraper or NY Business Registry Scraper.
• The company is registered in Florida. Use Sunbiz Florida Business Record Scraper.
• The company is registered in California. Use California SOS Business Search Scraper.
• You need owners, officers, EINs, filed documents, certificates of good standing or name-availability checks. These registries do not publish them; use the state's official filing services.
• You need inactive Oregon companies. The Oregon dataset holds active registrations only.

How do I look up a company by registry ID or LLC name?

Set searchBy to registryId and enter digits only. Colorado IDs are 11 digits (19981170007), Connecticut account numbers keep their leading zeros (0252810), and Oregon registry numbers are shorter (8739914). For an LLC name search, use contains with a distinctive word from the name:

{
  "searchTerms": ["Rocky Mountain Roofing"],
  "states": ["CO"],
  "matchMode": "contains",
  "maxTotalResults": 20
}

Call it from code

JavaScript (apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('muhammadafzal/co-ct-or-business-entity-registry').call({
  searchTerms: ['NIKE, INC.'],
  states: ['CO', 'CT', 'OR'],
  matchMode: 'exact',
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.map((i) => [i.state, i.registryId, i.status]));

Python (apify-client):

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("muhammadafzal/co-ct-or-business-entity-registry").call(
    run_input={"searchTerms": ["19981170007"], "states": ["CO"], "searchBy": "registryId"}
)
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item["businessName"], item["status"], item["registeredAgents"])

Use it from an AI assistant

Colorado, Oregon & Connecticut Business Entity Search works from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client through Apify's MCP server. Add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=muhammadafzal/co-ct-or-business-entity-registry as a server, then ask, for example: "Check whether Acme Logistics LLC is registered in Colorado or Oregon and give me its status and registered agent." The agent sees the input fields and the price per record before it runs.

What does the output look like?

The default input (NIKE, INC., exact match, all three states) returns three records in about five seconds. Two of them, shortened:

[
  {
    "state": "CO",
    "registryId": "19981170007",
    "businessName": "NIKE, INC.",
    "entityType": "FPC",
    "status": "Good Standing",
    "formationDate": "1998-09-21T00:00:00.000",
    "jurisdiction": "OR",
    "businessAddress": "One Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR, 97005-6453, US",
    "registeredAgents": [
      { "name": "United Agent Group Inc.", "address": "201 E 4th St, Loveland, CO, 80537-5601, US", "role": "Registered Agent" }
    ],
    "matchedQueries": ["NIKE, INC."],
    "matchedBy": "name",
    "sourceDataset": "Colorado Business Entities",
    "sourceDatasetUrl": "https://data.colorado.gov/d/4ykn-tg5h"
  },
  {
    "state": "CT",
    "registryId": "0252810",
    "businessName": "NIKE, INC.",
    "entityType": "Stock",
    "status": "Withdrawn",
    "formationDate": "1990-09-24T00:00:00.000",
    "jurisdiction": "OR",
    "businessAddress": "No information provided",
    "registeredAgents": [
      { "name": "Secretary of State", "address": "165 Capitol Ave., P.O. BOX 150470, Hartford, CT, 06115-0470, United States", "role": "Secretary of the State" }
    ],
    "sourceDataset": "Connecticut Business Registry - Business Master"
  }
]

How much does a business entity search cost? Pricing

You pay per delivered record plus a start fee. Apify platform usage is included. Searches that find nothing write no records and pay no record events.

Event (USD)	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD, PLATINUM, DIAMOND
Business registry record	0.010	0.00975	0.0095	0.008
Actor start, per started GB of allocated memory	0.005	0.005	0.005	0.005

The default memory is 256 MB, so a run pays one start event. If you set a run charge limit, the Actor lowers its record cap to fit it.

• Default run (3 records), FREE tier: USD 0.005 + 3 × 0.010 = USD 0.035.
• 500 records, GOLD tier: USD 0.005 + 500 × 0.008 = USD 4.005.

How current is the registry data, and what are the limits?

Colorado reports daily updates to its dataset, Connecticut says its registry datasets update nightly, and Oregon lists its dataset as weekly, so a filing made today may not appear yet. In a 2026-10-26 check the datasets held about 3.1 million Colorado entities, 1.3 million Connecticut businesses and 569,000 active Oregon businesses.

Oregon records always show Active, because the source holds active registrations only; their addresses and agents come from a second lookup. Connecticut agents come from a separate registry table. Source requests share an eight-minute budget per run and are retried with backoff; a state that fails three searches in a row is paused, and the run reports partial results in SUMMARY instead of failing silently.

FAQ

Is this an official Secretary of State search?

It reads the official registry data that the Colorado Department of State, the Connecticut Secretary of the State and Oregon publish on their open-data portals. Records are informational, not certified copies.

Can I find who owns a company?

No. These registries publish the registered agent, not owners or members. Agents are often commercial agent services.

Does it return inactive or dissolved companies?

For Colorado and Connecticut, yes; the status field shows it. Oregon returns active registrations only.

Why did an exact name search return nothing?

exact needs the full registered name, including commas and suffixes like INC. or LLC. Switch to contains.

Can I search other states?

Only CO, CT and OR. See the When to use section for New York, Florida and California tools.

How many companies can I check per run?

Up to 20 terms and 500 records per run. For longer lists, start several runs from the API.

Related Actors

• New York Business Entity Scraper: New York corporations and LLCs.
• Sunbiz Florida Business Record Scraper: Florida registry records.
• California SOS Business Search Scraper: California business entities.
• Chicago 311 Complaints & Service Requests Scraper: another official open-data export.

Legal and privacy note

Registry records are public, but they can name individual agents and addresses. Use them for verification, compliance and research, follow each state's data terms (Colorado requires its disclaimer, which every Colorado record carries), and do not use them for harassment or unsolicited contact that breaks anti-spam law. This Actor is not affiliated with any state agency.

Last verified: 2026-10-26