# UCC Lien Filings – New Business Financing & Tax Liens (`orventasystems/ucc-lien-filings`) Actor

New UCC-1 financing statements and business tax liens from official state data (CO, CT, OR): debtor business, address, lender/secured party, collateral, dates. Filter by lender, collateral, city; only-new mode for lending & MCA leads.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/orventasystems/ucc-lien-filings.md
- **Developed by:** [Purvin Patel](https://apify.com/orventasystems) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
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## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 filings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## UCC Lien Filings – New Business Financing & Tax Liens

See **which businesses just took secured financing, and from whom**. Get new **UCC-1 financing statements** and business **tax liens** from official state filing-office data in **Colorado, Connecticut and Oregon**: debtor business, address, lender (secured party), collateral description, filing and lapse dates.

About **9,000 new business filings a month**. No API key, no login, no scraping of state websites.

### Why UCC filings are great leads

A UCC-1 means a business just borrowed against its assets: a bank loan, SBA loan, equipment lease, merchant cash advance or vendor credit. That makes them ideal for:

- **Business lenders, MCA and revenue-based financing**: businesses actively seeking capital, with their current funder named
- **Equipment dealers and lessors**: see who's financing tractors, trucks, copiers and machinery (Caterpillar, John Deere and similar)
- **Refinancing and debt consolidation**: businesses stacking multiple advances
- **Tax resolution firms**: businesses with new IRS, state or municipal tax liens (Connecticut, Colorado)
- **Credit, risk and competitive intelligence**: monitor customers, vendors or a lender's portfolio

### What's in the data

| State | Update | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| **Colorado** | daily | debtor, secured party, **collateral description** (equipment, receivables, all assets…), IRS and statutory liens |
| **Connecticut** | daily | debtor, secured party, lien category (**IRS / municipal / state tax liens**), lapse date |
| **Oregon** | monthly (previous month) | debtor, secured party, link to the filing image |

Top secured parties include the **U.S. Small Business Administration**, MCA filing agents (**Corporation Service Company** and **CT Corporation** as representative), **Caterpillar Financial**, banks and equipment lessors.

### Features

- 🆕 **Filed within the last N days**, newest first
- 🗂️ **Filing types**: new financing statements (default), tax liens, other liens, continuations, amendments, terminations
- 🎯 **Filters**: lender keywords (`SBA`, `capital`, `funding`, `leasing`, `Corporation Service Company`), collateral keywords (`receivables`, `equipment`, `all assets`), debtor keywords, debtor city, ZIP and state
- 🔁 **Only new filings**: remembers what you've received, for a clean daily feed
- 🔒 **Business debtors only**: filings against individuals are excluded, individual lenders are unnamed, individual co-debtors are redacted from collateral text, "attn" lines are removed from addresses, hospital and restitution liens are never collected, and bogus "sovereign citizen" filings are filtered out

### Example input

```json
{
  "states": ["CO", "CT"],
  "filedWithinDays": 7,
  "filingTypes": ["financing_statement"],
  "lenderKeywords": ["corporation service company", "capital", "funding"],
  "onlyNew": true
}
```

### Example output

```json
{
  "id": "CO:20262102386:ACME BUILDERS LLC",
  "state": "CO",
  "filingNumber": "20262102386",
  "filingType": "financing_statement",
  "filingTypeDescription": "UCC financing statement",
  "filingDate": "2026-10-14",
  "lapseDate": "2031-10-14",
  "debtorName": "ACME BUILDERS LLC",
  "debtorAddress": "1800 GRANT ST STE 200",
  "debtorCity": "DENVER",
  "debtorState": "CO",
  "debtorZip": "80203",
  "securedPartyName": "U.S. Bank Equipment Finance",
  "securedParties": [{ "name": "U.S. Bank Equipment Finance", "city": "Marshall", "state": "MN", "individual": false }],
  "collateral": "1 BIZHUB C3351I together with all replacements, parts, repairs, additions…"
}
```

Also: `originalFilingNumber`, `lienCategory` (CT), `documentUrl` (OR filing image), `source`.

### Good to know

- **Oregon is monthly.** It publishes the previous month's filings at the start of each month, so use a window of 45+ days for Oregon.
- **"As representative" lenders.** Many fintech, MCA and SBA lenders file through agents such as Corporation Service Company or CT Corporation, and the agent is what appears as the secured party.
- **Contact rules.** This is public filing data. When you contact these businesses, follow CAN-SPAM, TCPA and do-not-call rules.

### Related Actors

- **[New Business Filings – New LLCs & Corporations](https://apify.com/orventasystems/new-business-filings)**: about 50,000 new businesses a month in NY, CO, OR and CT.
- **[New Trucking Companies – FMCSA New DOT Carriers](https://apify.com/orventasystems/fmcsa-new-trucking-companies)**: new trucking companies with phone and email.
- **[US Contractor Licenses – Multi-State Leads](https://apify.com/orventasystems/contractor-licenses)**: newly licensed contractors in 7 states.

### Support

Need another state or field? Open an issue on the **Issues** tab. I typically reply within one business day.

# Actor input Schema

## `states` (type: `array`):

State UCC filing offices to search.

## `filedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Filings in the last N days. Oregon is published monthly – use 45+ days for Oregon.

## `filingTypes` (type: `array`):

Default: new financing statements (UCC-1) – a business just took secured financing. Leave empty for all.

## `lenderKeywords` (type: `array`):

e.g. SBA, bank, capital, funding, leasing, Corporation Service Company (common MCA filer), equipment finance.

## `collateralKeywords` (type: `array`):

e.g. receivables, all assets, equipment, vehicle, inventory.

## `debtorKeywords` (type: `array`):

e.g. LLC, construction, restaurant, trucking.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

Only filings whose debtor address is in these cities, e.g. Denver, Hartford.

## `zipCodes` (type: `array`):

e.g. 802 for the Denver area.

## `debtorStates` (type: `array`):

Two-letter codes of the debtor's address (filings can list out-of-state debtors).

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remember filings returned by earlier runs (same filters) and output only new ones.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many filings are saved.

## `socrataAppToken` (type: `string`):

Optional; only useful for very large pulls.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "states": [
    "CT",
    "CO"
  ],
  "filedWithinDays": 7,
  "filingTypes": [
    "financing_statement"
  ],
  "lenderKeywords": [],
  "collateralKeywords": [],
  "debtorKeywords": [],
  "cities": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "debtorStates": [],
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `filings` (type: `string`):

UCC / lien filings found by this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "states": [
        "CT",
        "CO"
    ],
    "filedWithinDays": 7,
    "maxResults": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("orventasystems/ucc-lien-filings").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "states": [
        "CT",
        "CO",
    ],
    "filedWithinDays": 7,
    "maxResults": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("orventasystems/ucc-lien-filings").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "states": [
    "CT",
    "CO"
  ],
  "filedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxResults": 100
}' |
apify call orventasystems/ucc-lien-filings --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,orventasystems/ucc-lien-filings"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/GgbRu1v7A6OezHeOv/builds/2FIFRRkV3wCgAFzyc/openapi.json