Trust & provenance
Data coverage
Where the data comes from, how often it refreshes, what is and isn't in the dataset, and how to verify any single record against the Florida Division of Corporations source of truth.
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Source
Public Florida Division of Corporations data downloads — the same quarterly snapshot and daily incremental files the state itself publishes for unrestricted re-use.
- Quarterly snapshot (~1.7 GB)
sftp://sftp.floridados.gov/Public/doc/Quarterly/Cor/cordata.zip - Daily incremental files
sftp://sftp.floridados.gov/Public/doc/cor/
We are an independent platform. We do not republish anything that isn't already public, and we do not modify the underlying filings — only normalize them.
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Refresh cadence
- Daily workday imports pull every new incremental file the FL DOS posts to the public SFTP.
- Quarterly reconciliation re-imports the full snapshot, so status fields (active, inactive, dissolved) and officer/agent rosters can't silently drift from the source of truth.
Daily imports verified by `daily_run` audit log.
Live operational health is published at /status — rendered from live database queries on every request.
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Coverage
Current production status: Live.
Counts below are read from the DatasetStatus singleton when this page is rendered — the same source consumed by /status and the homepage, so numbers can't drift between surfaces.
4,662,147
Entities
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Officer / principal records
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Registered-agent records
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Normalized addresses
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Daily filing records
Coverage period: all FL DOS records from inception through the most recent quarterly snapshot plus every daily update since.
Includes: LLCs, Corporations, Limited Partnerships, Limited Liability Partnerships, Trusts, and Trade Names (fictitious names).
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Data format
- Normalized JSON via REST API at
/api/v1. - Raw source fields preserved on every entity detail under
entity.raw— nothing is lossy. - Downloadable CSV samples and a no-auth live API at /sample.
- OpenAPI 3.1 spec at /openapi.json for SDK generation and machine-readable docs.
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What we don't have
Some fields are intentionally excluded; others are on the roadmap. Being explicit about both up front saves you a support ticket.
Officer home addresses
Intentional PII gate. Officer addresses are technically public record, but they often resolve to home addresses; we follow FL DOS public guidance and do not surface them through the API.
Email and phone
Not in the source data. Anything you find elsewhere claiming to attach contact info to FL DOS filings is enriched from a third-party source, not the filings themselves.
Industry classification / NAICS
Planned for v2 via name-inference. FL DOS does not publish NAICS codes on filings.
Historical filings / events
12M+ historical events land in the next quarterly load. Today's API reflects current entity state plus daily incremental events.
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Limitations
- Public filing data only; not independently verified.
- Not for FCRA-covered decisions (credit, insurance underwriting, employment screening, tenant screening). See the FCRA notice for the full list.
- Filing dates reflect FL DOS receipt date, not the actual date an entity was formed.
- "Active" status reflects the current FL DOS status as of the last quarterly reconcile plus daily updates since.
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How to verify a record
Every entity detail page links to the corresponding sunbiz.org public record. Click through and compare — every field in our API response is traceable to a field on the official Sunbiz page.
Example deep link
https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquiryType=DocumentNumber&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=L24*&aggregateId=L24If you spot a discrepancy between our record and the Sunbiz page, email [email protected] with the document number — we'll reconcile in the next daily run.