Sources that carry it

11 sources
Financial Industry Regulatory Authori…
BrokerCheck Data

One BrokerCheck Source combining public arbitrary-name/CRD lookup and FINRA offered broker/firm downloads. It documents individual and firm identity, registrations, employment, qualifications, ownership/executive roles, business activities, affiliations, and disclosure-event concepts. No unofficial endpoint, residential address, or full birth date is claimed.

Free Full file National US 32 fields
New York State Department of State
Corporation and Business Entity Search Database

Standing governmental name/ID lookup covering registered business and not-for-profit entity types and assumed names. Current first-party controls document name/ID, status, entity-type and corpus inputs; product-specific matched identity, status, type and assumed-name outputs are retained only at documented or explicit high-confidence conceptual maturity.

Free Subnational 5 fields
Global Legal Entity Identifier Founda…
GLEIF Golden Copy and Delta Files

Global CC0 full/delta file family published three times daily in CSV, JSON, and XML. One product includes Level 1 LEI-CDF, Level 2 RR-CDF relationship records, and reporting exceptions, with exact scalar leaves inside documented repeated periods and qualifiers. Relationships are reported accounting-consolidation relationships, not inferred beneficial ownership.

Free Full file Global 28 fields
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissi…
Investment Adviser Public Disclosure and Form ADV Data

One public investment-adviser registry Source combining IAPD arbitrary firm/representative lookup with current XML compilations and historical Form ADV Part 1 CSV archives. Exact scalar leaves cover firm and representative identity, registrations, offices, owners/executives, affiliations, employment, business activities, filing pins, and disclosure indicators. Private-residence location/contact leaves and document bodies are excluded.

Free Full file National US 121 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
Licensing & Insurance Carrier Search

Official standing public browser lookup for FMCSA Licensing & Insurance records by USDOT number, docket number, legal/DBA name, and state or country. Carrier details document identity, addresses, operating-authority status and history, public regulatory insurance filings and compliance, BOC-3 compliance, pending applications, and revocations. No developer schema is offered, so Feature paths, wire types, and cardinalities remain unknown.

Free National US 32 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
MCMIS Company Census File

Daily public Company Census dataset for active, inactive, and pending FMCSA entities. Its Socrata API and reusable full-file export expose the current 147-column MCMIS row schema covering entity identity, operations, equipment, drivers, cargo, addresses, docket identifiers, and review/safety fields. Equipment fields are carrier-reported owned, term-leased, or trip-leased fleet counts, not VIN or title ownership.

Free APIFull file National US 27 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
Motus Carrier — All With History

Daily public operating-authority carrier dataset. Each row is an authority/docket relationship, so identifiers can repeat; no nested authority object or derived count is asserted. The corresponding daily-difference dataset is a delivery variant.

Free APIFull file National US 12 fields
State Regulatory Registry LLC (NMLS)
NMLS Consumer Access

Free standing public lookup for buyer-selected mortgage companies and professionals by name or NMLS ID. First-party documentation defines company, branch, and individual identity, jurisdictional licences, business locations/contacts, sponsoring and employment affiliations, and regulatory-action concepts. No unofficial API, bulk file, residential address, full birth date, or protected identifier is claimed.

Free Unknown 27 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
QCMobile API

Official API-keyed REST/JSON service for querying U.S. DOT-registered motor carriers by carrier name, USDOT number, or docket number. Official documentation defines carrier identity, operating status, passenger-equipment, address/contact, complaint, and selected BASIC safety elements; other endpoint families remain omitted where scalar response elements are not documented.

Free API National US 13 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
SAFER Company Snapshot

Free standing one-company browser lookup returning a condensed MCMIS profile with identity and address, registration and authority status, operation and cargo classifications, reported fleet and driver figures, inspection and crash summaries, and safety rating. Power Units aggregates specified equipment owned, term leased, or trip leased by the carrier and is not title ownership.

Free National US 35 fields
Texas Secretary of State
SOSDirect Business Organizations

Paid 24/7 standing entity search plus reusable BEST master unloads and daily/weekly updates. Filed images and certificate/copy orders are excluded; search and bulk are delivery modes of one product.

Paid Full file Subnational 22 fields

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