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 NY, CO, OR, CT, PA, TX, FL. Omit to search all supported states.
• exactMatch — true returns only exact (case-insensitive) name matches.
• maxResultsPerState — cap per state (default 25).

States and coverage (v1)

This actor only queries official government sources — open-data APIs where the state publishes one, plus Florida's own official Sunbiz public-records search. 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 official search (search.sunbiz.org)	Full registry incl. inactive/historical. Scope: name-index search (matches from the start of the normalized name, not mid-name "contains"); up to 20 candidates per search; entity type, filing date, and registered agent hydrated for the first 10 matches per search.

Honest limitations: datasets vary in scope — NY/OR/PA cover active/current entities (dissolved may not appear); CO includes historical/dissolved; CT carries explicit status; TX is the active franchise-taxpayer list (not full SOS history). Registered agent is returned where the source publishes it and may be empty otherwise. More states are added as official, compliant endpoints are validated.

Monitor NEW filings (companion actor)

Want a daily feed of brand-new registrations from these same official sources — for lead generation rather than lookups? Use our companion actor New Business Filings Monitor: same six states, same normalized schema, plus business email + NAICS where the state publishes them.

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.