Secretary of State Business Search (KYB) & New LLC Filings — 28 States + DC

Look a company up in the official business registers of 28 US states and the District of Columbia in one run (27 states + DC by default; Alaska when you select it), and get back one normalized record per matching entity: legal name, the state's entity id, type, status, formation date, jurisdiction, principal and mailing address, registered agent, officers, filing history and former names — wherever that state publishes them. Every record links back to the register it came from.

The same actor also pulls brand-new LLCs and corporations by filing date from 11 states' own records (the new-filings mode) — see New business filings.

Official state registers only. No login, no API key, no CAPTCHA solving, no browser.

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Quick start

One company, the default contains-match, every covered state:

{ "companyName": "Acme Holdings" }

A list of legal names checked exactly, in five states:

{ "companyNames": ["Tesla, Inc.", "Walmart Inc.", "Starbucks Corporation"], "matchMode": "exact", "states": ["DE", "FL", "NY", "TX", "WA"] }

A fast name-and-status check (no detail pages):

{ "companyName": "Evergreen", "states": ["OR", "WA"], "includeDetails": false, "maxResultsPerState": 100 }

Without a company name the run searches the demo (Tesla in CO, CT, DC, NY and TX, 5 per state) and says so.

What one record looks like

A real record from the verified platform run (Florida, companyName: "Tesla"; the filing history is shortened from 26 entries to 2, and fields that are null for this record are left out — every record carries all 66 fields):

{
  "recordType": "entity",
  "query": "Tesla",
  "matchMode": "contains",
  "state": "FL",
  "stateName": "Florida",
  "entityId": "F09000002525",
  "entityName": "TESLA FLORIDA, INC.",
  "entityType": "Foreign Profit Corporation",
  "entityKind": "corporation",
  "isForeign": true,
  "jurisdiction": "TX",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "filingDate": "2009-06-23",
  "address": "1 Tesla Road, Austin, TX 78725",
  "addressType": "principal",
  "mailingAddress": "1 Tesla Road, Austin, TX 78725",
  "registeredAgentName": "CT CORPORATION SYSTEM",
  "registeredAgentAddress": "1200 S PINE ISLAND RD, PLANTATION, FL 33324",
  "registeredAgentType": "organization",
  "agentIsCommercial": true,
  "officers": [
    { "name": "Musk, Elon", "title": "Director", "address": "1 Tesla Road, Austin, TX 78725" },
    { "name": "Stewart, Emmanuelle", "title": "Assistant Secretary", "address": "1 Tesla Road, Austin, TX 78725" },
    { "name": "Musk, Elon", "title": "President", "address": "1 Tesla Road, Austin, TX 78725" }
  ],
  "fein": "91-2197729",
  "formerNames": [{ "name": "TESLA, INC.", "date": null }],
  "filingHistory": [
    { "date": "2026-04-22", "type": "ANNUAL REPORT", "number": null },
    { "date": "2024-08-16", "type": "Amendment", "number": null }
  ],
  "detailsFetched": true,
  "sourceDataset": "Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) - entity name search",
  "sourceUrl": "https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=TESLA%20F090000025251&aggregateId=forp-f09000002525-435a7930-3365-476a-95af-a6cee0ce169f&searchTerm=TESLA&listNameOrder=TESLA%20F090000025251",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-09-30T05:46:30.100Z"
}

Florida's name index still lists this registration under its former name TESLA, INC., which is why the search for "Tesla" found it and formerNames carries that name.

Which states are covered, and what each publishes

Every register was verified live against real searches (tesla, an exact legal name, a broad name that pages, and a name that matches nothing) from the Apify platform's own network. Fill is the share of those captured records with the field populated, with detail pages on. — = the register does not publish it.

State	Official source	Name search	Statuses	Records measured	Status	Formed	Address	Registered agent	Officers	Filing history
AK	Alaska Division of Corporations — corporations + officials database downloads (only when selected)	contains	active only	57	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	—
AL	Alabama Secretary of State — Business Entity Records	all words	all	71	100%	100%	45%	100%	73%	100%
AR	Arkansas Secretary of State — corporation search	all words	all	76	100%	69%	50%	56%	56%	—
AZ	Arizona Corporation Commission — business register (listing level)	contains	all	161	100%	—	100%	—	—	—
CO	Colorado Secretary of State — Business Entities open data	contains	all	71	100%	100%	100%	100%	—	—
CT	Connecticut Business Registry open data (master + agents + principals)	contains	all	71	100%	100%	100%	100%	82%	—
DC	DC DLCP — Corporate Registration (DCGIS open data)	contains	all	71	100%	100%	100%	100%	—	—
DE	Delaware Division of Corporations — ICIS name search (free part)	starts with	all	57	—	100%	—	100%	—	—
FL	Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz)	starts with	all	72	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
HI	Hawaii DCCA Business Registration Division — Hawaii Business Express	contains	all	71	100%	100%	100%	100%	82%	100%
IA	Iowa Secretary of State — Active Business Entities (Iowa Data Hub)	contains	active only	71	100%	100%	100%	100%	—	—
ID	Idaho Secretary of State — SOSBiz	contains	all	1,002	100%	100%	82%	64%	—	100%
KY	Kentucky Secretary of State — Business Entity Search	starts with	all	71	100%	82%	100%	100%	100%	100%
MA	Massachusetts Corporations Division — corporate database	starts with	all	71	—	100%	82%	100%	64%	100%
MN	Minnesota Secretary of State — Business Filings search	contains	all	72	100%	100%	100%	67%	75%	100%
MO	Missouri Secretary of State — business entity search	contains	all	71	100%	100%	27%	82%	18%	100%
MS	Mississippi Secretary of State — Business Services public search	contains	all	161	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	—
ND	North Dakota Secretary of State — FirstStop	contains	all	68	100%	100%	88%	88%	—	100%
NJ	New Jersey Division of Revenue — Business Name Search	contains	all	71	—	100%	100%	—	—	—
NM	New Mexico Secretary of State — Enterprise business search	contains	all	67	100%	100%	—	100%	86%	100%
NY	New York Department of State — Public Inquiry	contains	all	77	100%	100%	12%	76%	12%	—
OR	Oregon Secretary of State — Active Businesses open data	contains	active only	39	100%	100%	100%	100%	—	—
PA	Pennsylvania Department of State — Registered Businesses open data	contains	active only	71	100%	100%	100%	—	100%	—
SD	South Dakota Secretary of State — business name availability	exact name only	active only	3	—	—	—	—	—	—
TX	Texas Comptroller franchise-tax account search (SOS status + file number)	starts with	all	63	78%	78%	100%	78%	—	—
WA	Washington Secretary of State — CCFS register	starts with	all	71	100%	100%	82%	100%	100%	—
WI	Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions — Corporate Records	contains	all	67	100%	100%	100%	100%	—	100%
WV	West Virginia Secretary of State — Business Organizations	contains	all	77	47%	100%	71%	59%	71%	35%
WY	Wyoming Secretary of State — WyoBiz	contains	all	87	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

Name search is what the state's own search can do. A register that only matches from the start of the name (starts with) returns starts-with matches in contains mode; all words finds names containing every word; South Dakota answers exact names only. Active only registers list current entities, so a no-match there does not prove an entity never existed. Florida sits behind Cloudflare, which now and then challenges requests from cloud networks (during verification it was challenged in 1 of 3 all-state runs); such a search is reported as not answered. New York's register names a service-of-process recipient (serviceOfProcessName / serviceOfProcessAddress) and a registered agent only when one was appointed; West Virginia names a "notice of process" contact the same way. Contact fields where a register publishes them: Connecticut the business email, the agent's phone and email and NAICS; Washington the agent's email; Delaware the agent's phone; Mississippi NAICS.

States not searched, and why

State	Why
CA	bizfile Online answers every search with an Imperva "blocked" (HTTP 429); the state's API needs a key issued to government agencies only.
GA	Cloudflare challenge on every eCorp page from datacenter networks.
IL	The online search resets every search request (Akamai); the bulk files are ~340 MB.
IN	AWS WAF human-verification challenge on every page.
KS	AWS WAF CAPTCHA on every page.
LA	A reCAPTCHA token is required on every search.
MD	A Cloudflare Turnstile token is required on every search and record.
MI	Cloudflare challenge on every page; the legacy host refuses TLS.
MT	Cloudflare "Security Check" on every page.
NC	Cloudflare challenge on every search page.
NE	A reCAPTCHA token is required on every search.
NV	Imperva on every page.
OH	Every Ohio SOS host answered a Cloudflare challenge inside a "Website Maintenance" page.
OK	A Cloudflare Turnstile token is required on every search.
SC	The search answers "Invalid Captcha" without a solved CAPTCHA.
TN	A Cloudflare Turnstile token is required on every search.
ME, NH, RI, UT, VT	Awaiting review: their search pages carry a CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA or Turnstile), even where the register does not check it.
VA	A reCAPTCHA token is required on every search; the state's open-data copy stops in 2024.

The run's COVERAGE record lists every state with its source, name-search behaviour, statuses and fields.

Input (entity search)

Field	Default	What it does
companyName	—	The business to look up, e.g. Tesla or Acme Holdings LLC.
companyNames	[]	Up to 100 businesses in one run; each is searched in every selected state. Duplicates are removed.
states	[] = all	Two-letter codes. Empty searches every covered state except Alaska, which is searched when you select it (its register is a 79 MB download that takes 40–115 seconds).
matchMode	contains	contains, starts (name begins with your words) or exact (the registered legal name; punctuation and spacing ignored, so Tesla Inc finds TESLA, INC.).
maxResultsPerState	25	Cap per name, per state (1–500).
includeDetails	true	Opens each match's detail page where the register keeps officers, the agent, addresses and filing history there. Off = a faster name, status and id check. Same price either way.
residentialFallback	true	When a register refuses the direct connection twice, try once more through a US residential proxy before reporting it as not answered.

Leave mode at entitySearch (the default).

What happens when a register does not answer

Each name × state search ends one of three ways, recorded in RUN_SUMMARY.searches:

• found — records delivered (and charged);
• no-match — the register answered and nothing matched (free);
• not-answered — the register blocked, timed out or answered something that failed a check (free). It is named in RUN_SUMMARY.statesNotAnswered and in the final status message, never reported as "no match".

A register whose own count of matches differs from what was read is reported as not answered and delivers nothing for that search — a short answer never passes as a complete one. The run fails only when no register answered at all.

Output fields

Field	Description
recordType	entity (entity search) or new-filing (new-filings mode)
query, matchMode	The name this record matched, and how
state, stateName	The register the record came from
entityId	The state's own entity / file / document number
entityName	Legal name as registered now
entityType, entityTypeCode, entityKind	Type in the state's words, its code where it uses codes, and llc / corporation / nonprofit / partnership / assumed-name / other
isForeign, jurisdiction	Formed elsewhere and registered here; state or country of formation
status, subStatus, standing	Status as published; standing where the register publishes it separately (HI, ID, KY, ND, TX, WV, WY)
filingDate, effectiveDate, dissolvedDate, expirationDate	Formation / registration date and the other dates the register publishes (YYYY-MM-DD)
address, street, city, addressState, zip, country, addressType	Principal (or business / mailing) address and its parts
mailingAddress, county, latitude, longitude	Where published
registeredAgentName, registeredAgentAddress	The registered agent
registeredAgentType, agentIsCommercial	person / organization / self, and whether the agent is a registered-agent, formation, law or accounting firm
registeredAgentPhone, registeredAgentEmail	Where published (CT phone + email, DE phone, WA email)
serviceOfProcessName, serviceOfProcessAddress	New York service of process; West Virginia notice of process
officers	[{name, title, address}] — officers, directors, managers, members, organizers or governing persons as the register lists them
contactName, contactRole	The first person among the officers, else a person registered agent
businessEmail, businessEmailType, businessPhone	Where published (CT business email; new filings: CT)
naicsCode, naicsDescription, fein, annualReportDueDate, taxpayerNumber	Where published
formerNames	[{name, date}] earlier legal names (and the name a search matched when it was a former one)
filingHistory	[{date, type, number}] filed documents where the register lists them
detailsFetched	true when the detail page was read; false = listing fields only; null = the source has no separate detail
sourceDataset, sourceUrl, sourceFreshness	The register, a link to the record (or the search page where the register has no per-record link), and how current it is
sourceFields	Anything else the register publishes for the record, as published
retrievedAt	When the record was read
filingType, recordedDate, daysSinceFiling, filerName, filerAddress, ownershipFlags, purpose, sourceFile, officersTruncated	New-filings fields (see below); daysSinceFiling is also filled in entity search

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New business filings

Set mode to newFilings to pull brand-new LLCs, corporations, nonprofits and partnerships registered in a date window, read from 11 states' own records: Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Iowa, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

{ "mode": "newFilings", "states": ["CT", "NY", "MS"], "daysBack": 7, "entityKinds": ["llc"], "maxItems": 500 }

State	Source	Fresh	Address	Registered agent	Contact name	Email / phone
CO	Colorado SOS open data	daily	100% principal	100%	21–56%	—
CT	Connecticut Business Registry	daily	97–99%	100%	94–99%	business email 100%, agent phone 94%, agent email 94–96%
DC	DC Corporate Registration (DCGIS)	daily	100%	100%	46–56%	—
FL	Division of Corporations daily files (public SFTP)	daily files	100% (no state in the file)	100%	94–96%	—
IA	Iowa Data Hub, active entities	~monthly	99–100% home office	100%	62–69%	—
MS	Secretary of State corporate reporting grid	live	97–100% principal, county 95–98%	—	—	NAICS 97–100%
NY	Department of State: active corporations + daily filings	daily	not published	39–65% named agent, 100% service of process	23–55%	—
OR	Oregon SOS active businesses	daily	97–98%	72–80%	69–83%	—
PA	Department of State registered businesses	~monthly	100%	not published	91–92%	—
RI	Secretary of State weekly export of new entities	weekly	not published	100%	75–83%	—
TX	Comptroller franchise taxpayers (SOS charter date)	weekly	100% mailing	not published	—	—

Measured on real filings in two sampling frames per state (the newest full day(s) and a window about three weeks earlier). Iowa and Pennsylvania refresh about monthly (give them a 45–60 day window) and Texas weekly; when a state has nothing in your window yet, the run says so in the status message and RUN_SUMMARY.notes — never a silent zero. Mississippi name reservations are not entities and are excluded. Florida and Rhode Island are selected by the date the state published the file (recordedDate).

Field	Default	What it does
states	[] = all 11	States for new filings.
daysBack	7	Filings from this many days ago through today (each state's own date).
sinceDate / untilDate	—	A fixed window (YYYY-MM-DD) instead of daysBack.
entityKinds	all	llc, corporation, nonprofit, partnership, assumed-name (Oregon DBAs), other.
includeForeign	true	Off = only businesses formed in the state.
excludeCommercialAgents	false	Keep only filings whose registered agent is not a commercial service (the owner side).
requireContact	false	Keep only filings with a business email, an agent phone or a named contact.
zipPrefixes	[]	Keep only addresses whose ZIP starts with one of these.
nameKeywords	[]	Keep only names containing one of these words (sent to the source as a filter where it supports one).
onlyNew	false	Monitor mode: every filing is delivered once across runs with the same filters.
maxItems	100	The cost cap, shared fairly across the selected states.

Every new-filings run writes a RUN_SUMMARY with, per state, the source's own count for your window, the newest filing it holds, and how many records were read, delivered, filtered and excluded. A state read to the end must yield exactly the source's own count, or the run fails loudly after delivering every healthy state.

Pricing

$0.0015 per record delivered — an entity-search match or a new filing; $1.50 per 1,000. No start fee. Searches that match nothing, registers that did not answer, duplicates and records removed by your filters are never charged.

FAQ

Why do some states return fewer fields? Because they publish fewer. Delaware's free search shows the name, type, formation date and registered agent but sells the status; New Jersey's free name search shows no status or agent; Arizona and South Dakota are listing-level. The table above gives the measured fill per state, and COVERAGE says the same per run.

Can one run check many companies? Yes — up to 100 names in companyNames; each is searched in every selected state, one search per state at a time.

How fast is it? Open-data and API registers answer in 1–5 seconds; registers that limit request rates (Missouri, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota) take 20–90 seconds for five detailed records, and the run finishes when the slowest selected state does. Choose states and switch includeDetails off for the fastest checks.

Is the data current? Entity search reads each register live at run time, except the open-data registers (CO, CT, DC, IA, OR, PA — refreshed daily to monthly) and Alaska's database download; sourceFreshness says which on every record.

Which export keeps the structure? JSON. Officers, former names and filing history are arrays; CSV and Excel flatten them.