New Business Leads by State — 17 Official State Sources

Get brand-new business registrations — the freshest B2B leads that exist — from seventeen official US state government data sources in one normalized feed: NY, CO, OR, CT, PA, TX, DC, MS, WV, FL, IL, UT, NM, ID, IA, MT, OH. New businesses need insurance, banking, bookkeeping, websites, equipment, and services right now; this actor tells you who they are, where they are, and (where the state publishes it) how to reach them.

No API keys, no logins, no scraping of protected portals — every record comes from an official state open-data endpoint and carries a sourceUrl and retrievedAt timestamp so you can verify it yourself.

What you get per lead

Field	Description
entityName	Registered business name
state	State the registration came from
registrationDate	Filing / formation date (ISO YYYY-MM-DD)
entityType	LLC / Corporation / etc. (as the state classifies it)
status	Registration status
addressLine, city, region, zip	Business address, where the source publishes it
county	County (NY, PA, TX; OH corporations)
registeredAgent	Registered agent (CO, OR; NY/PA where published)
businessEmail	Business email address (CT) — straight from the official registry
naicsCode	Industry NAICS code (CT) — filter leads by industry
jurisdiction	Jurisdiction of formation
filingId	The state's own filing / registry ID
sourceUrl	Link back to the official registry
sourceFreshness	Honest per-state freshness note (see below)
retrievedAt	When this record was fetched (ISO 8601)

Input

{
  "states": ["NY", "CO", "OR", "CT", "PA", "TX", "DC", "MS", "WV", "FL"],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "maxResultsPerState": 100
}

• states — any of NY, CO, OR, CT, PA, TX, DC, MS, WV, FL, IL, UT, NM, ID, IA, MT, OH. Omit for all seventeen.
• daysBack — look-back window in days (default 7). For a continuous feed, schedule the actor daily with daysBack 1–3 (the same-day states: NY/CO/OR/CT/UT/ID/MT). PA needs daysBack 10+ and IL/NM/IA need daysBack 14+ because those sources publish on a lag (IL is a batch bulk file, NM/IA carry a ~2-week processing delay). OH refreshes MONTHLY — its bulk reports are regenerated on the 2nd Saturday of each month, so use daysBack 45+ (60 recommended) or run OH on its own monthly schedule. Run the lagged states on their own less-frequent schedule to avoid duplicate leads.
• sinceDate — optional fixed start date (YYYY-MM-DD); overrides daysBack.
• maxResultsPerState — cap per state (default 100, max 2,000).

Freshness, stated honestly (per state)

Every record carries its source's real cadence in sourceFreshness — we'd rather tell you a source lags than let you find out from a stale lead.

State	Source	Cadence
New York	NY DOS Active Corporations (data.ny.gov)	Updates daily
Colorado	CO SoS Business Entities (data.colorado.gov)	Updates daily; richest record (principal address + agent + full status)
Oregon	OR SoS Business Registry (data.oregon.gov)	Updates daily
Connecticut	CT Business Registry Master (data.ct.gov)	Updates daily — and uniquely publishes business email + NAICS
Pennsylvania	PA DoS Registered Businesses (data.pa.gov)	Publishes with ~1-week lag — treat PA as "recent", not same-day
Texas	TX Comptroller Active Franchise Taxpayers (data.texas.gov)	Refreshes weekly; scope = active for-profit franchise taxpayers, not the full SOS feed
District of Columbia	DC business registry via DCGIS (maps2.dcgis.dc.gov)	Updates daily; entity type + registered agent (no street address in feed)
Mississippi	MS SoS Corporate (corp.sos.ms.gov)	Updates daily; entity type + status (registered agent not in the feed)
West Virginia	WV SoS Business Organizations (apps.sos.wv.gov)	Date-range query; entity type + status (no street address in the feed)
Florida	FL DOS official SFTP daily bulk feed (sftp.floridados.gov)	Posts day+1; the largest state — full address + registered agent, all new entity types (LLC, corp, non-profit, foreign, LP)
Illinois	IL SoS Business Data Transparency Act bulk files (apps.ilsos.gov/data/bs)	Batch — free statutory masters carry per-entity incorporation dates; refresh runs every few weeks, so treat IL as "recent", not same-day, and use daysBack 14+
Utah	UT CARES business search (registration-date filtered server-side)	Updates same-day — Utah's advanced search filters by registration date live
New Mexico	NM SoS Enterprise search (enterprise.sos.nm.gov)	Date-range query with a ~2-week processing lag — use daysBack 14+; random-draw of broad terms deduped by record number
Idaho	ID SoS SOSBiz records API (sosbiz.idaho.gov)	Updates same-day — freshest filings appear the next day; entity type + registered agent
Iowa	IA Data Hub active-entity dataset (idh-be.iowa.gov)	Date-range SQL; active-only with a ~2-week lag — use daysBack 14+; address + registered agent
Montana	MT SoS business search (Tyler portal)	Updates same-day — date-range query; entity type + registered agent (source occasionally challenges datacenter IPs and degrades to empty+warning, never a crash)
Ohio	OH SoS free "Online Business Reports" bulk CSVs (publicfiles.ohiosos.gov)	Monthly — regenerated the 2nd Saturday of each month covering the prior month's filings, so OH lags 1–6 weeks; use daysBack 45+ or a monthly schedule. All new entity types (domestic + foreign LLC / corp / nonprofit / professional / LP), with filer address + statutory agent (foreign entities carry their out-of-state principal address + state of formation), and county for corporations

Other honest limitations: states publish different fields — email/NAICS are CT-only, agent names are strongest in CO/OR, and NY's address is the service-of-process address. OH does not publish a verified principal street address for domestic entities, so OH's address is the filer/organizer address (foreign entities carry their true out-of-state principal address instead). Where a state doesn't publish a field, it is null rather than guessed.

Typical uses

• Daily lead feed: schedule with daysBack: 2, pipe the dataset to Sheets, your CRM, or a Zapier/Make webhook.
• Territory monitoring: pick your states, filter by county or zip downstream.
• Industry targeting: CT's naicsCode lets you filter to e.g. restaurants or contractors at the source.

Companion actors

• Look up / verify any company (KYB) — the full registry record behind a lead, or any US company by name across official sources: Secretary of State Business Entity Search (KYB) (28 states, same normalized schema, official-data-only).
• Sanctions screening — KYC/AML-check a name against the official U.S. Treasury OFAC SDN list: OFAC Sanctions Screening.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: a tiny per-run start fee plus a per-lead charge. You only pay for leads actually returned. No subscription, no minimum.

For AI agents (MCP)

Built for agentic use: a clean, described input schema and a normalized output schema. Discoverable and callable through the Apify MCP server and pay-per-event agentic payment rails.

Data sources

All data comes from official US state government open-data portals. This actor returns public record data as published by each state; it is provided "as is" for informational purposes. Respect applicable laws (e.g. CAN-SPAM / TCPA) when contacting any business.

FAQ

How do I get a list of newly registered businesses by state? Run this actor with the states you want and a daysBack window. It returns every new business registration in that window from each state's official source, as a normalized lead feed you can pipe to a CRM, Google Sheet, or webhook.

Which states are covered? Seventeen: NY, CO, OR, CT, PA, TX, DC, MS, WV, FL, IL, UT, NM, ID, IA, MT, and OH. Omit the states field to pull all seventeen.

How fresh are the new-business leads? Most states are same-day or day+1 (NY/CO/OR/CT/UT/ID/MT/DC/MS/FL). A few publish on a lag — PA ~1 week, IL/NM/IA ~2 weeks (use daysBack 14+), and OH refreshes monthly (use daysBack 45+ or a monthly schedule). Every lead carries its source's real cadence in sourceFreshness.

What contact and firmographic data comes with each lead? Business name, entity type, registration date, and — where the state publishes it — mailing address, county, registered agent, business email, and NAICS code. Fields a given state doesn't publish are returned as null, never guessed.

Is this legal, and where does the data come from? Yes. Every record comes from an official state government open-data endpoint (no logins, no protected portals, no CAPTCHA bypass) and carries a sourceUrl and retrievedAt so you can verify it. It's public record data.

How much does it cost? Pay-per-event: a small per-run start fee plus a per-lead charge. You only pay for leads actually returned — no subscription, no minimum.