Editorial policy
A wrong fee or a wrong name rule can cost a reader a rejected filing. These are the rules the site holds itself to.
Official sources only
Every fee, name ending, restricted word and naming rule comes from the state's own statute, rule or agency page, or from a federal or county agency for the guides. Law firm articles, filing companies and other lookup sites are never used as the source of a fact. No table or rule is copied from another website.
Every fact is dated
Each state entry and guide ends with its list of official sources and the date they were retrieved. Search results carry the date of the state's data. Entries show a "last updated" date, which changes only when the content changes.
When a state page will not load
Some state websites do not open from every network. Where that happened, the stored copy of the same official page at the Internet Archive was used, and the source list gives the date of that copy. A fact that could not be traced to an official page was left out. A state whose search link, name endings or filing fee could not be traced has no entry yet.
How pages are prepared
Pages are prepared with AI assistance from the listed official sources. Figures in the text are checked by a script against the recorded source facts before a page is published. No page says a person has read it until a person has.
What search results show
Results show the business name, entity type, status, filing date and record number as the state published them. Personal details in a state's data, such as officers, agents and addresses, are never requested or shown. No result calls a name free to use. It reports what the list held and leaves the decision to the state.
Money
No state, registrar or filing company pays to appear on the site or shapes what an entry says. The site has no ads today, and the registrar links are not paid today. The disclaimer will state any change before it takes effect.
Corrections
Send corrections to hello@statebusinessentitysearch.com with the official page that shows the right figure. Confirmed errors are fixed and the entry's date is updated.