Business research guides for reading US public records — how to verify a company, pull company information and read the federal paper trail — plus the reference documents behind the product. Use them to check an entity before you sign, onboard or pay. Written by the team that maintains the datasets.
Guides
How to verify a US company
A 15-minute checklist: entity status, officers, liens, litigation and the federal paper trail — before you sign or pay.
Guide · 6 minWhat is a UCC lien?
Reading business debt in public records: filing patterns, blanket liens, terminations, secured transactions, and where the records live.
Guide · 50 statesHow to find who owns an LLC
After the 2026 federal BOI-reporting rollback, state registries, UCC and court records are the public ownership trail. A 50-state guide to what each register exposes and where to search.
Company research resources
The reference set behind every company profile: the datasets we index for company research, the registry terms they use, and how to correct a record at the source.
Data methodology
All 16 federal and 50-state sources, refresh cadence on each register's own schedule, entity resolution, provenance and the accuracy policy.
ReferenceCompany-data glossary
Plain-language definitions of the registry terms on every profile: registry number, entity status, good standing, foreign qualification and more.
ChangelogWhat's new
New datasets, features and data-quality changes, dated.
PolicyCorrections & removal
How to fix or remove a record, and how requests are re-verified at the source.