US State Business Registry: Officers, Agents & Status

Part of the Company Diligence MCP. This actor's data is also available to AI agents through our Company Diligence MCP server — ten official-registry tools behind one endpoint. No result, no charge.

Look up a US company in official state business registries and get back the things compliance workflows actually ask for: who the officers are, who the registered agent is, when and where the entity was formed, and whether it is in good standing — normalized to one schema across every state.

These are official government open-data APIs, not scraping targets. No API key, no proxy, no CAPTCHA.

Coverage

State	Source	Entity	Registered agent	Officers	Formation date
CT	Secretary of the State	✅	✅	✅	✅
NY	Department of State	✅	Service-of-process agent	—	✅
CO	Secretary of State	✅	✅	—	✅
OR	Secretary of State	✅	✅	Authorized representatives	✅

Not covered: Delaware. Most large US corporations incorporate there and Delaware publishes no open API, so this actor cannot see them. If your workflow depends on Delaware, this is not the tool for it — said plainly here rather than discovered after you have paid.

Why the name matching matters

State registries do raw substring search. Searching Tesla on a naive integration returns 10MINUTESLATER FILMS LLC — a real match on the letters TESLA inside 10MINU-TESLA-TER.

Every record here carries a match_type so you can tell a real hit from an accident, and results are ranked best-first:

match_type	Meaning
exact	Name matches your query (ignoring a trailing Inc/LLC/Corp)
starts_with	Name begins with your query
word_match	Query appears as a whole word
substring	Letters appear inside another word — filtered out unless you ask for them

strictMatch defaults to true, which drops the substring noise entirely.

Output

Every record has the same shape regardless of source state:

{
  "entity_name": "TESLA, INC.",
  "entity_id": "001t000000WnfX0AAJ",
  "match_type": "exact",
  "state": "CT",
  "entity_type": null,
  "status": "Active",
  "jurisdiction": null,
  "formation_date": "2012-06-14",
  "principal_address": {
    "street": "1 TESLA ROAD", "city": "AUSTIN", "state": "TX", "zip": "78725", "country": "US"
  },
  "registered_agent": {
    "name": "C T CORPORATION SYSTEM",
    "address": "C T Corporation System",
    "city": "Manchester", "state": "CT", "zip": "06040-4471",
    "type": "Business"
  },
  "officers": [
    { "name": "Elon Musk", "title": null, "city": "Austin", "state": "TX" }
  ],
  "source_url": "https://service.ct.gov/business/s/onlinebusinesssearch",
  "source_dataset": "data.ct.gov/n7gp-d28j",
  "query_name": "Tesla, Inc.",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-27T11:52:00.000Z"
}

Fields a state does not publish come back as null rather than being guessed or filled from another source. A title of null means the registry does not record a role — not that the person has none.

Each run also appends a _type: "summary" row listing states searched, states that failed, and the entity count.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
companyName	string	—	Required. Business name to search
states	string[]	all	Any of NY, CO, CT, OR
maxResultsPerState	integer	10	1–100
includeOfficers	boolean	true	Fetch officer rosters where published
strictMatch	boolean	true	Drop accidental substring hits
appToken	string	—	Optional free Socrata token for higher rate limits

Pricing

$0.002 per business entity returned. No result, no charge — a search that finds nothing costs nothing. A state whose API is down is reported in the summary row and never billed.

Point-in-time evidence

Registry records are point-in-time snapshots of what a state publishes, not a legal opinion or a certificate of good standing. Use them as evidence to review, not as a compliance decision on their own.