Rhode Island Business Registry — Officers, Agents & Filings

Structured company data for Rhode Island, straight from the state's official public business register. Look a company up by name, by the person who runs it, by its registered agent, by street address, by NAICS industry code or by the words in its filed business purpose — and get back what actually matters for KYB, lead generation and diligence: who runs the business, who its registered agent is, where it really sits, what it says it does, and everything it has ever filed.

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

Results come back as JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

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Seven ways to find a business

Most registry scrapers give you one search box: the company name. This one gives you seven, and the five in bold are the ones that turn a registry into a prospecting database.

Search by	Use it for
Company name	Begins with, exact match, full text, or sounds like (Soundex)
Officer or director name	Every Rhode Island company a named person sits on — with their position and their address
Registered agent	Every company a law firm or agent company represents in the state
Street address	Every company registered at an address, a building or a street
NAICS industry code	A whole industry at once — restaurants, contractors, clinics, dispensaries
Business purpose keyword	Companies whose filed purpose mentions cannabis, solar, logistics, staffing …
ID number	Resolving a known Rhode Island ID number straight to its full record

Pass a list of names, agents, addresses, codes or keywords and one run covers every one of them.

No paging ceiling

Where other tools stop at the first page, this one takes the complete result set for each search — thousands of companies for a busy registered agent or a large industry code — and reports in the run log exactly how many the register held versus how many were collected. Nothing is quietly dropped.

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What you get for every business

Identity

• Registered name, plus the exact name of record and how the register classifies it
• Rhode Island ID number
• Entity type (domestic profit corporation, foreign corporation, LLC, LLP, limited partnership, non-profit, trust) plus a simplified entityCategory you can group on
• Status — active or inactive — and for inactive records why: dissolved, revoked, withdrawn, cancelled, or merged into another entity, with the date it happened
• Date of incorporation, or of qualification for out-of-state companies, plus the effective date
• Home state and country for out-of-state and foreign companies, with an isForeign flag
• The Rhode Island General Laws title the entity was formed under

What the business actually does

• NAICS industry code and its plain-English description
• The full statement of purpose as filed with the state, in the company's own words

Addresses — split into usable columns

• Principal office address with street, city, state, ZIP and country as separate fields
• Mailing or specified office address, split the same way
• Registered agent address, split the same way
• Every row is mappable, filterable and ready for a CRM

People

• Registered agent for service of process, with a flag for whether that agent has resigned
• Every named officer and director, each with their title and their own address broken into street, city, state, ZIP and country
• Convenience columns: CEO, CFO, president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, manager
• A separate list of everyone holding a director title
• Officer count, all officer names and all titles held, ready for filtering and enrichment

Corporate detail

• Every class of stock with its series, par value per share, authorised shares and issued shares
• Totals for authorised and issued shares across all classes
• Every former name the company has traded under, with the date each name changed
• Mergers — companies merged into this one with dates, and the entity it was merged into if it no longer exists separately
• Fictitious names (DBAs) filed by the company, each with its filing date, so a trading name maps back to the legal entity behind it

Filing history (optional)

• Every filing on record — annual reports, amendments, mergers, dissolutions, reinstatements, conversions, restatements — with its type, year, exact filed timestamp and filing number
• A direct link to the filed PDF for each one, plus its page count
• The year of the most recent annual report and the date of the most recent filing of any kind

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Filters (you are never charged for filtered-out records)

Narrow before anything counts as a result:

• Active only · inactive only · both
• Specific inactive reasons — dissolved, revoked, withdrawn, cancelled, merged
• Entity category or entity type contains
• Rhode Island entities only, or out-of-state and foreign only, or by home jurisdiction
• City, state, ZIP code, country
• Incorporated or qualified between two dates — a ready-made new-company feed
• Name contains · purpose contains · NAICS prefix
• Officer name contains · officer title contains
• Registered agent contains
• Exclude commercial registered-agent firms, leaving the companies whose agent is a real person at the business — the ones actually worth calling
• Only companies with named officers · only companies with a registered agent
• Only companies that have filed a fictitious name
• Minimum authorised shares

Anything filtered out is discarded before it counts as a result, so you only pay for the records you actually asked for.

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Who is it for

• Sales and lead generation — every restaurant LLC formed in Providence in the last 90 days, with the manager's name and address
• KYB and onboarding — resolve a Rhode Island ID number or name to its legal entity, status, registered agent, officers and share structure
• Registered-agent intelligence — the full book of business behind any agent or law firm
• Competitive and industry research — a whole NAICS code, or every company whose purpose mentions your market
• DBA resolution — map a trading name back to the company that owns it
• Corporate research — trace name changes, mergers and filings back to the original incorporation

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How to use it

1. Choose Search by — company name, officer, registered agent, address, NAICS, purpose or ID.
2. Fill the matching list field with one or more values.
3. Pick a status scope and any filters you want.
4. Set Maximum results, switch on filing history if you need it, and run.
5. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or an HTML table, or pull it from the Apify API.

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FAQ

Do I pay for a run that finds nothing? No. You are charged per delivered business record. Failed runs, empty searches and filtered-out records are never charged.

Are contact emails and phone numbers included? The state register does not publish business emails or phone numbers, so this actor does not invent them. What it does give you is the officer, director or agent name plus their address, which is what makes the record actionable.

Do all companies list officers? Corporations almost always do. Limited liability companies in Rhode Island often file without naming officers, so those records carry the registered agent and the full company detail instead. The officerCount field tells you which is which, and there is a filter to keep only records with named people.

Does it cover inactive and dissolved companies? Yes — set the status scope to inactive or to both. Inactive records also tell you why the company left the register and when.

Can I get the actual filed documents? Yes. Switch on filing history and every filing comes back with a direct link to its PDF.

How current is the data? Every record is read live from the public register at run time.

Do I need a login, cookies or a proxy? No. Everything is handled internally.

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Notes on coverage

• Dates are normalised to YYYY-MM-DD, timestamps to ISO 8601.
• Only information the register publishes openly is returned.
• Status comes from the register's own active and inactive indexes. A company can be active and still show an old revocation date on its file, from a revocation it was later restored from, so the status event is reported as its own field rather than overriding the status.
• Records are de-duplicated across searches within a run.
• Results are flushed as they are collected, so a stopped run never loses what it already found.

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