Florida Business Registry MCP Server – Sunbiz Corporate Filings

Florida Sunbiz MCP Server turns the State of Florida's official business registry into a fast, AI-ready API. Give Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible agent the power to search Florida companies, LLCs, registered agents, officers, trademarks, fictitious names (DBAs), partnerships, and liens on Sunbiz — and get back clean, structured JSON in one call. No scraping code, no Cloudflare headaches, no PDF downloads.

What does the Florida Sunbiz MCP Server do?

It wraps every public search system of the Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) behind a single Model Context Protocol endpoint. Your AI agent can look up a Florida business by name, officer, registered agent, FEI/EIN, ZIP code, street address, or document number, then pull the full entity record — status, filing date, principal and mailing addresses, registered agent, officers/managers, annual reports, and links to every filed PDF (articles of organization, annual reports, amendments).

Because it runs on the Apify platform, you get an always-on hosted endpoint with proxy rotation, monitoring, usage-based billing, and zero infrastructure to maintain. Sunbiz pages are parsed server-side (no headless browser) using a real browser TLS fingerprint, so requests sail past the Cloudflare bot wall that blocks naive scrapers.

Why use the Florida Sunbiz MCP Server?

• KYB & due diligence — instantly verify a Florida company's status, age, FEI/EIN, and registered agent before you sign, lend, or onboard.
• Sales & lead generation — find every entity tied to an officer, registered agent, or address; enrich CRM records with verified company data.
• Legal & compliance research — search judgment liens and federal lien registrations by debtor name.
• Brand protection — search registered Florida trademarks and their owners.
• Agent-native automation — drop one URL into your MCP client and let the model do Florida company research conversationally, with citeable document links.

How do I connect this MCP server to my AI agent?

1. Click Try for free / run the Actor and enable Standby mode (already configured).
2. Copy your MCP endpoint: https://<your-username>--fl-sunbiz-mcp.apify.actor/mcp.
3. Add it to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) using the Streamable HTTP transport, with your Apify API token as a Bearer header:

   Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN>
   

4. Ask your agent things like "Look up Publix Super Markets in Florida" or "Find every Florida company where John Smith is an officer." The agent calls a search_* tool, then get_record_detail on a result for the full record.

Which MCP tools does this server expose?

Tool	What it does
search_corporations	Search corporations, LLCs, LPs & trademarks by name, officer, registered_agent, trademark, trademark_owner, fei_ein, zip, or address (paginated).
get_corporation_detail	Full company record by document number.
get_corporation_events	Chronological event/filing history.
search_cable_franchises / get_cable_franchise	Florida cable franchise search & detail.
search_fictitious_names / get_fictitious_name	Fictitious (DBA) name search & detail, by name, owner, owner_charter or owner_fei.
search_partnerships / get_partnership	General & LL partnership search & detail, by name, agent or fei.
search_judgment_liens	Judgment liens by debtor name.
search_federal_liens / get_federal_lien	Federal lien registrations by debtor.
get_record_detail	Resolve any search result into a full structured record.

What does a Sunbiz record look like?

Search tools return result rows; detail tools return a complete record. Example (abridged):

{
  "entity_type": "Florida Profit Corporation",
  "name": "PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS, INC.",
  "filing_information": {
    "Document Number": "112252",
    "FEI/EIN Number": "59-0324412",
    "Date Filed": "12/27/1921",
    "Status": "ACTIVE"
  },
  "principal_address": { "lines": ["3300 PUBLIX CORPORATE PKWY", "LAKELAND, FL 33811-3311"] },
  "registered_agent": { "name": "Corporate Creations Network Inc.", "address": ["801 US Highway 1", "North Palm Beach, FL 33408"] },
  "officers": [{ "title": "CEO", "name": "Murphy, Kevin S." }, { "title": "President", "name": "Goff, John L., Jr." }],
  "annual_reports": [{ "year": "2026", "filed_date": "04/02/2026" }],
  "document_images": [
    { "description": "04/02/2026 -- ANNUAL REPORT", "url": "https://search.sunbiz.org/.../GetDocument?...&formatType=PDF" }
  ]
}

You can also consume results through the Apify API and export to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Which fields does a record contain?

Field	Description
name, entity_type, document_number	Entity name, type, and Sunbiz document number
filing_information	FEI/EIN, date filed, state, status, last event
principal_address, mailing_address	Business addresses with change dates
registered_agent	Registered agent name & address
officers / authorized persons	Title, name, address
annual_reports	Year and filed date of each annual report
document_images	Links to filed PDFs/TIFFs (never downloaded)
event_history_url	Link to full event history

What do these Florida filing terms mean?

• Document number — the Division of Corporations' permanent ID for a filed entity (e.g. 112252 for Publix). It is the one key that reaches a record directly, without a name search.
• FEI/EIN number — the entity's federal Employer Identification Number as reported to the state. Searchable with search_by="fei_ein".
• Registered agent — the person or company designated to receive legal service of process in Florida. Many businesses share a commercial agent, so agent search is a good way to enumerate a portfolio.
• Fictitious name (DBA) — a trade name registered under s. 865.09, Fla. Stat. by an owner who does business under something other than their legal entity name.
• Judgment lien certificate — a filing that records a money judgment against a debtor's personal property statewide.
• Federal lien registration — a federal lien (commonly an IRS tax lien) recorded with the Department of State, numbered like 08FLR0007841.

How much does the Florida Sunbiz MCP Server cost?

Pricing is pay-per-event: $0.01 per tool call. You only pay for the searches and lookups your agent actually makes — a typical "search then open a record" interaction costs about $0.02. No subscription, no minimums beyond Apify's free tier.

Tips for getting more out of it

• Drill into people: use search_corporations with search_by="officer" or "registered_agent" to map every entity linked to a person, then get_record_detail on each.
• Browse from a point: Sunbiz name search returns the nearest alphabetical matches, so a partial name returns neighbors — verify the exact name in results.
• Cite documents cheaply: document_images returns PDF links without downloading, so responses stay small and you fetch a filing only when needed.

FAQ

Do I need a Sunbiz account or API key? No. Sunbiz publishes these records without any login and has no public API. You only need your Apify API token, which authenticates you to this Actor's MCP endpoint.

Which MCP clients work with it? Any client that speaks Streamable HTTP — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and other MCP-compatible agents. The endpoint is /mcp on your Actor's Standby URL.

Does it cover LLCs and partnerships, or only corporations? All of them. search_corporations covers profit and non-profit corporations, LLCs and limited partnerships in one index; general and limited-liability partnerships have their own search_partnerships tool, and DBAs have search_fictitious_names.

Can I look a company up by its document number directly? Yes — get_corporation_detail takes the document number and returns the full record without a name search. The name-search endpoint does not accept document numbers, which is why this is a separate tool.

How is cost bounded? You are charged $0.01 per tool call, so the cost of a session is exactly the number of searches and lookups your agent makes. max_results caps how many rows a search follows pagination for, and no charge depends on result size.

What happens if a lookup fails? The tool returns an error object rather than crashing the session, so your agent can retry or explain. Sunbiz occasionally rate-limits; retrying the same call usually succeeds.

Are the filed PDFs downloaded? No. document_images gives you the Sunbiz URLs for each filed document, so responses stay small and you fetch a filing only if you need it.

Is scraping Sunbiz legal? These are public records published by the Florida Department of State. Use the data in compliance with Florida law and Sunbiz's terms. Under Florida law many of these records (including email addresses) are public by statute.

Known limitations

• Judgment-lien detail pages are protected by a Cloudflare JavaScript challenge and can't be fetched without a browser; the judgment-lien search still returns filing number, debtor name, and address.
• Trademarks have no document-number lookup on Sunbiz — reach them via name/owner search.
• Found an issue or need a custom data feed? Open the Issues tab — feedback and custom solutions are welcome.

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