# New Business Filings Monitor — Official State Registries (`esco.api/new-business-filings`) Actor

Fresh business registrations (LLCs, corporations) from official state government feeds. Normalized, deduplicated, lead-ready. CO, CT, NY — more states on request.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/esco.api/new-business-filings.md
- **Developed by:** [Francesco Freedman](https://apify.com/esco.api) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## New Business Filings Monitor — Official State Registries

Get **every new business registered in Colorado, Connecticut, and New York**, straight from the official Secretary of State / Department of State open-data feeds — normalized, deduplicated, and lead-ready.

New businesses are the highest-intent B2B leads that exist: within weeks of filing, they buy insurance, payroll, banking, bookkeeping, POS systems, websites, marketing, and office services. This actor gives you those leads **the day the state publishes them**, for a fraction of what lead brokers charge.

### Why this actor

- **Official sources only.** Data comes directly from state government open-data portals (data.colorado.gov, data.ct.gov, data.ny.gov) — no scraping of third-party sites, no stale resold lists.
- **Fresh.** State feeds update daily; run this on a daily or weekly schedule and get filings from the last 1–7 days.
- **You only pay for new leads.** With `newOnly` enabled (default), filings already delivered in previous runs are skipped — a scheduled run only charges for rows you haven't seen before.
- **One normalized schema across states.** Entity name, type, filing date, status, address, registered agent, county — same columns whether the filing came from CO, CT, or NY.
- **Bonus segmentation (CT).** Connecticut filings include self-reported woman-owned / veteran-owned / minority-owned flags.

### Output example

```json
{
    "state": "CO",
    "entity_id": "20261827704",
    "entity_name": "AnimSpark Inc",
    "entity_type": "DPC",
    "filing_date": "2026-07-06",
    "status": "Good Standing",
    "address_line1": "1580 N Logan St",
    "city": "Denver",
    "region": "CO",
    "zip": "80203",
    "registered_agent": "Colorado Registered Agents Inc",
    "source": "Colorado Secretary of State (data.colorado.gov)"
}
```

Typical volume (all three states): **900–1,300 new filings per day**.

### Who uses this

- **Insurance agents & brokers** — new LLCs need GL/BOP/workers' comp immediately.
- **Payroll, bookkeeping & tax firms** — reach owners before they've picked a provider.
- **Banks & merchant services** — new entities open accounts in week one.
- **Web/marketing agencies** — most new filings have no website yet.
- **Data teams** — firmographic enrichment, local market research, TAM tracking.

### Inputs

| Field | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `states` | `["CO","CT","NY"]` | Any subset of the supported states |
| `sinceDays` | `7` | Look-back window (1–90 days) |
| `newOnly` | `true` | Skip filings delivered by previous runs |
| `maxResults` | `0` (no cap) | Handy for test runs |
| `socrataAppToken` | — | Optional; raises state API rate limits for large backfills |

### Recommended setup: scheduled lead feed

1. Create a **Schedule** in Apify Console (daily, e.g. 7:00 AM).
2. Input: your states, `sinceDays: 3`, `newOnly: true`.
3. Add an integration (email, Slack, webhook, Google Sheets, Make/Zapier) to deliver each run's fresh leads to your pipeline.

### More states?

CO, CT, and NY are live. Additional states with official feeds (and scraped coverage for states without them) are added by demand — **open an issue and tell me which state you need**; well-supported requests ship within days.

### Data & fair-use notes

All records are public business registrations published by state governments for exactly this purpose. The actor queries official open-data APIs politely (paged, rate-limited, identified). Records describe business entities, not consumers.

# Actor input Schema

## `states` (type: `array`):

Which state registries to pull. All supported states by default.

## `sinceDays` (type: `integer`):

Return filings registered within the last N days. State feeds update daily, so 7 is a good weekly cadence; use 1-3 on a daily schedule.

## `newOnly` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, filings already returned by previous runs of this actor are skipped, so a scheduled run only yields (and only charges for) genuinely new leads.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on total results across all states (0 = no cap). Useful for test runs.

## `socrataAppToken` (type: `string`):

Optional app token from any Socrata open-data portal account. Not required — it just raises the state APIs' rate limits for very large backfills.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "states": [
    "CO",
    "CT",
    "NY"
  ],
  "sinceDays": 7,
  "newOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 0
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("esco.api/new-business-filings").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("esco.api/new-business-filings").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call esco.api/new-business-filings --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=esco.api/new-business-filings",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/LzdFGezSBomXaiBuZ/builds/MDvu4cZf6VchDJS5j/openapi.json