Properties
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| id | string | |
| by | string | |
| name | stringnull | The officer or registered agent searched |
| street | stringnull | |
| zip | stringnull | |
| state | string | |
| businessCount | integer | |
| truncated | boolean | The register lists more than 25 businesses; narrow the search to see the rest |
| businesses | array | |
| createdAt | string | ISO 8601 |
JSON Schema
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://artifacts.apis.io/entitylight/json-schema/entitylight-business-search-schema.json",
"title": "BusinessSearch",
"x-generated": "2026-10-30",
"x-method": "derived",
"x-generator": "derive-json-schema.py",
"x-source": "openapi/entitylight-openapi.json#/components/schemas/BusinessSearch",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$"
},
"by": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"officer",
"registered_agent",
"address"
]
},
"name": {
"description": "The officer or registered agent searched",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"street": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"zip": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"state": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"AL",
"AK",
"AZ",
"AR",
"CA",
"CO",
"CT",
"DE",
"DC",
"FL",
"GA",
"HI",
"ID",
"IL",
"IN",
"IA",
"KS",
"KY",
"LA",
"ME",
"MD",
"MA",
"MI",
"MN",
"MS",
"MO",
"MT",
"NE",
"NV",
"NH",
"NJ",
"NM",
"NY",
"NC",
"ND",
"OH",
"OK",
"OR",
"PA",
"RI",
"SC",
"SD",
"TN",
"TX",
"UT",
"VT",
"VA",
"WA",
"WV",
"WI",
"WY"
]
},
"businessCount": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991
},
"truncated": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "The register lists more than 25 businesses; narrow the search to see the rest"
},
"businesses": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"legalName": {
"type": "string"
},
"sosId": {
"description": "The state's own id for the business; look it up for the full record",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"state": {
"type": "string"
},
"status": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"entityType": {
"description": "As the state records it",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"formationDate": {
"description": "YYYY-MM-DD",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"registeredAgent": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"registeredAgentAddress": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"principalAddress": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"mailingAddress": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"officers": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"address": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"required": [
"name",
"title",
"address"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"description": "Officers as the state's register lists them"
},
"matched": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"as": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"officer",
"registered_agent",
"address"
]
},
"value": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The officer, agent or address as the register spells it"
},
"title": {
"description": "The officer's title, for officer searches",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"addressTypes": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"principal",
"mailing",
"registered_agent"
]
},
"description": "Which of the business's addresses matched, for address searches"
}
},
"required": [
"as",
"value",
"title",
"addressTypes"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"sourceAsOf": {
"description": "ISO 8601. When the state's register was published, where it comes from a published file",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"required": [
"legalName",
"sosId",
"state",
"status",
"entityType",
"formationDate",
"registeredAgent",
"registeredAgentAddress",
"principalAddress",
"mailingAddress",
"officers",
"matched",
"sourceAsOf"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}
},
"createdAt": {
"type": "string",
"description": "ISO 8601"
}
},
"required": [
"id",
"by",
"name",
"street",
"zip",
"state",
"businessCount",
"truncated",
"businesses",
"createdAt"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}Work with this as data
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