Indiana Secretary of State Business Search

The Indiana Secretary of State business search is a great search that has many different search options. You can search for any kind of registered business entity, such as LLC, corporations, or partnerships.

Here is the official search page.

If you want a way to search for a business in any state, please feel free to use our verify a business tool here, free of charge. It looks a little like this. It allows you to also easily copy and download the data.

While it is not required to be registered with the IN Secretary of State to do smaller business before you do anything like open a business checking account or get a business loan, you must register with the state. Because it is public you can find business owner information for any business registered in the state of Indiana.

I rate it 7 out of 10

Pros:

• Search by officer and registered agent
• Search by other neat things like entity status and entity type
• View officers and documents from details page
• Search UI is pretty

Cons

• reCaptcha on every search is a pain
• Some searches can take a LONG time

Indiana Secretary of State Entity Search

Look how pretty the Indiana Secretary of State business search is! There are quite a few search options, including search by the registered agent and officer/incorporator/governing person.

Let’s give it a try. The captcha is always kind of a pain but every time I checked this one I didn’t have to select any images. The load time took 2.21 seconds. Here are the results:

There is quite a bit of information here. The most important things are probably the business name, type, and status. It’s nice to also have the office address, I guess. Maybe if you wanted to find one close to you?

Here’s what it looks like when I enter the details page. It has more business detail information, including filing date, and then great information such as officer and registered agent data.

It also has a section here for business documents such as Articles of Organization and what looks like an annual Business Entity Report.

I did open up an Articles of Organization and it didn’t look like it had any cool information like phone numbers or email addresses.

Search by Incorporator

Now to try out the search by incorporator. I searched by “Frank” and it took a lot longer to load at 1.2 minutes!

And…the results look the same. 10k+ results, though! No wonder it took so long to load. The interesting thing is not all of these results are loaded right now. If I hit the next page button it still takes forever to load page two. Ouch.

And that’s about it for Indiana.

Extra Credit

For all of my power users out there. You can access any of this business data via API. This can be handy for things like:

• Business verification
• KYC/KYB (know your business) anti-money laundering
• Business credit check
• Finding business owner information

It’s as simple as this:

let url = `https://apigateway.cobaltintelligence.com/v1/search?searchQuery=${encodeURIComponent(businessName)}&state=${state}`;

const axiosResponse = await axios.get(url, {
    headers: {
        'x-api-key': this.apiKey
    }
});

return axiosResponse.data;

Get a free Secretary of State API key here.

Here are some technical posts on how to get information from the Indiana Secretary of State:

• Getting officers and documents from Indiana’s Secretary of State
• Scraping the Indiana Secretary of State for business data
• Indiana Secretary of State business data via API

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