Secretary of State Business Entity Search (KYB)

Search official US Secretary of State business registries by company name and get back clean, normalized entity records for KYB, fraud, onboarding, and due-diligence pipelines. No API keys, no logins — just a company name.

Every result is drawn live from an official government source and carries a sourceUrl and retrievedAt timestamp so you can verify it yourself.

What you get per entity

Field	Description
entityName	Registered business name
state	State the record came from
entityType	Corporation / LLC / etc. (as the state classifies it)
status	Registration status
registrationDate	Initial filing / formation date (ISO YYYY-MM-DD)
registeredAgent	Registered agent, where the source publishes it
jurisdiction	Jurisdiction of formation
filingId	The state's own entity/registry ID
sourceUrl	Link back to the official registry
retrievedAt	When this record was fetched (ISO 8601)

Input

{
  "companyName": "Stripe",
  "states": ["NY", "CO", "OR"],
  "exactMatch": false,
  "maxResultsPerState": 25
}

• companyName (required) — name or partial name to search.
• states — any of the 28 supported codes below (NY, CO, OR, CT, PA, TX, FL, HI, VA, NM, MS, DC, ID, NJ, IA, AL, WI, WV, KY, RI, ND, AR, MO, MT, VT, GA, IL, UT). Omit to search all supported states.
• exactMatch — true returns only exact (case-insensitive) name matches.
• maxResultsPerState — cap per state (default 25).

States and coverage (28 states)

This actor only queries official government sources — open-data APIs and official public-records searches the states themselves publish. No CAPTCHA-protected or terms-restricted portals, so it stays reliable and compliant.

State	Source	Notes
New York	NY DOS Active Corporations (data.ny.gov)	Active corporations; includes registered agent.
Colorado	CO SoS Business Entities (data.colorado.gov)	Full status incl. dissolved/delinquent; richest status data.
Oregon	OR SoS Business Registry (data.oregon.gov)	Active registry; per-record deep link to the state page.
Connecticut	CT Business Registry Master (data.ct.gov)	Full status, entity type, formation jurisdiction.
Pennsylvania	PA DoS Registered Businesses (data.pa.gov)	Currently-registered businesses; filing number + address.
Texas	TX Comptroller Active Franchise Taxpayers (data.texas.gov)	Carries SOS file number + SOS status. Scope: active for-profit franchise taxpayers, not full SOS filing history.
Florida	Sunbiz — FL Division of Corporations (search.sunbiz.org)	Full registry incl. inactive/historical. Scope: name-index search; up to 20 candidates/search; type, date, agent hydrated for the first 10.
Virginia	VA SCC open data (data.virginia.gov)	LLCs, corporations, partnerships, and business trusts; all statuses; registered agent. No entity-type field.
New Mexico	NM SoS Enterprise (enterprise.sos.nm.gov)	All statuses; entity type + registered agent.
Mississippi	MS SoS Corporate (corp.sos.ms.gov)	All statuses; entity type. Registered agent not published in search results.
District of Columbia	DC business registry via DCGIS (maps2.dcgis.dc.gov)	Full registry (domestic + foreign), all statuses, entity type, registered agent.
Idaho	ID SOSBiz (sosbiz.idaho.gov)	All statuses; entity type + registered agent (first 10/search).
New Jersey	NJ Business Name Search (njportal.com)	Entity type + jurisdiction. Scope: source does not publish status or agent.
Iowa	IA SoS via state dataset (idh-be.iowa.gov)	Entity type + registered agent. Scope: active entities only; refreshed monthly (not real-time).
Alabama	AL SoS (arc-sos.state.al.us)	All statuses; entity type, agent, formation date (first 10/search); first results page (~25).
Wisconsin	WI DFI Corporate Records (apps.dfi.wi.gov)	All statuses/types (incl. in-process names); agent (first 10/search); up to 500/search.
West Virginia	WV SoS Business Org (apps.sos.wv.gov)	All statuses; entity type; status derived from termination fields. Agent on the detail page only.
Kentucky	KY SoS (sos.ky.gov)	All statuses; entity type, agent, date (first 10/search); first page (50).
Rhode Island	RI SoS Corporate Database (business.sos.ri.gov)	All statuses; entity type, agent, date (first 5/search); first page.
North Dakota	ND SoS FirstStop (firststop.sos.nd.gov)	All statuses; entity type, filing date. Scope: registered agent/jurisdiction not in the public search payload (null).
Arkansas	AR SoS (sos-corp-search.ark.org)	Name, status, filing ID. Scope: entity type, date, and registered-agent name live only on the detail page (not returned).
Missouri	MO SoS (bsd.sos.mo.gov)	All statuses; entity type, status, formation date, registered agent, charter number. Paginated.
Montana	MT SoS (biz.sosmt.gov)	All statuses; entity type, status, date, registered agent; jurisdiction best-effort.
Vermont	VT SoS Business Services (bizfilings.vermont.gov)	All statuses; entity type, status, registered agent; formation date (first 5/search).
Georgia	GA SoS eCorp (ecorp.sos.ga.gov)	All statuses; entity type, status, registered agent, control number; formation date hydrated politely for the first matches.
Illinois	IL SoS official bulk data (apps.ilsos.gov/data — Business Data Transparency Act)	Corporations + LLCs, all statuses; entity type, status, dates, registered agent. Scope: statutory bulk files refreshed on a cache cycle (not real-time; new filings appear after the next refresh).
Utah	UT Business Registration (businessregistration.utah.gov)	All statuses; entity type, status, formation date; registered agent hydrated for the first 10/search.

Honest limitations: datasets vary in scope. Several cover active/current entities only (NY/OR/PA/IA — dissolved may not appear); CO/CT/VA/FL/AL/WI/WV/KY/RI include historical/dissolved. Hawaii is a 2022 snapshot (stale — good for name/ID lookups, not current status). Some sources don't publish status (NJ) or a registered agent (MS/NJ/PA). For HTML-based sources, only the first results page is read and entity-type/agent are hydrated for the first several matches per search. Registered agent is returned where the source publishes it and may be empty otherwise. More states are added as official, compliant endpoints are validated.

Companion actors

• Monitor NEW filings — want a daily feed of brand-new registrations from official state sources, for lead generation rather than lookups? New Business Filings Monitor covers 8 states with the same normalized schema, plus business email + NAICS where the state publishes them.
• Screen a name for sanctions — running KYC/AML on a business or person? OFAC Sanctions Screening matches a name against the official U.S. Treasury SDN list with a fuzzy match score.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: a small per-state-search charge plus a per-result charge. You only pay for results returned. No subscription, no minimum.

For AI agents (MCP)

This actor is 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 and public registries. This actor returns public record data as published by each state; it is provided "as is" for informational and verification purposes.