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Business records data

Every registered business entity, from the primary record.

Business records data is public, source-cited information on registered companies: registry filings, liens, licenses, permits and federal records. Netstate resolves it on 128 million entities across every US state, DC, Puerto Rico and Canada from the offices that file them — then matches 400M+ records to each. Every field is cited to its issuing agency and dated, so your team reads evidence, not summaries.

128M
registered business entities, resolved from official registers
61
state & provincial registers — every US state, DC, Puerto Rico and Canada
400M+
liens, licenses, permits and federal records matched to companies
66
primary sources: 50 state registries + 16 federal datasets

Three layers of business records data, one profile

Teams use this data to verify a US company, confirm status and ownership, and read current evidence rather than stale summaries — right down to small or newly formed entities legacy datasets miss. A Netstate profile stacks the register that created the entity, the filings recorded against it, and the signals those filings imply — each layer labeled with where it came from.

Layer 01 · Registered identity

The company, as the state filed it

Every profile is anchored on the register that created the business entity — read straight from the state filing office, not scraped websites or self-reported forms.

  • Legal name, DBAs and former names
  • Officers, directors and registered agents
  • EIN, SEC CIK and state registration numbers — identify entities by number
  • Formation date and filing history
See a live profile
Layer 02 · Records & filings

What the business owes, holds and does

Hundreds of millions of per-record business records — filings from state and federal offices, matched to the registered entity at query time.

  • UCC liens and secured creditors
  • Licenses, building and business permits
  • Federal contracts, SBA & PPP loans, trademarks
  • Provenance and snapshot date on every row
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Layer 03 · Operating signals

Context for reading the record

Signals derived from the filings themselves — labeled as estimates where they are estimates, never presented as facts.

  • NAICS industry classification
  • Estimated annual revenue and headcount
  • Registration, tax and agent standing
  • Officer and contact reverse search
How signals are derived

From filing office to profile

Every record follows the same five steps from the agency to the page — nothing skips a step, and each step is logged. The methodology documents each source and its refresh cadence.

01

Ingest

Bulk files, APIs and FOIA-released datasets, pulled directly from the issuing office.

02

Normalize

Names, addresses, dates and identifiers parsed into one schema; malformed filings flagged.

03

Resolve

Filings linked to one legal entity by registration numbers, EIN, officers and addresses.

04

Attribute

Every field tagged with its source dataset, issuing agency and retrieval date.

05

Refresh

Sources re-pulled on the agency’s own cadence — never claimed fresher than the source.

What the business records data covers

The categories below are the public information you’ll find on a profile like Howard Concrete Pumping Co., Inc.. Coverage varies by jurisdiction — the companies index shows what each register publishes.

Registrations & status
Secretary-of-State and provincial company registry data for every US state — from California to Rhode Island — plus DC, Puerto Rico and Canada, with status as of the register’s latest filing.
Officers & people
Named officers, directors and registered agents, current and historical, searchable in both directions — company to person and person to company.
UCC liens
Secured parties, filing dates and collateral from state UCC filing offices — who already holds claims on a company’s assets.
Licenses & permits
State and federal licenses, building and business permits, each carrying the register it came from and its snapshot date.
Federal records
Information filed at the federal level: USAspending awards, SBA & PPP loans, SEC EDGAR, USDOT carriers, USPTO marks, customs shipments and ten more federal datasets.
Contact points
Phones, emails and websites exactly as filed on official records — a contact-shaped search resolves back to the companies filed under it.

Every field is public business information — the same registrations a state agency, from the California Secretary of State to a small state filing office, would hand you at the counter, matched to federal-level records and cited back to source.

How teams access the business records data

Three ways into the same cited records, resolved to one entity with provenance on every field — pick the one that fits how your team works.

Search & profiles

Full-text search by name, officer, phone, email or website; every result is a cited profile your reviewer can read and export.

API & MCP

The same records over REST, plus an MCP server at /mcp so agents can pull cited records into their own workflows.

Exports

Profile PDFs for case files and bulk CSV exports of search results on the Enterprise plan.

Records are for human review. Netstate is not a consumer reporting agency and its data may not be used for decisions covered by the FCRA.

Read one record for yourself.

Open a live profile and check every citation against the issuing office — that’s the whole pitch.