Indiana Secretary of State Business Search
Tags: secretaryofstate, indianasecretaryofst
Published: 2021-11-23 13:31:06

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title: Indiana Secretary of State Business Search
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date: 2021-11-18 23:30:26 UTC
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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](https://bsd.sos.in.gov/publicbusinesssearch).

If you want a way to search for a business in any state, please feel free to use our [verify a business tool here](https://cobaltintelligence.com/verify-a-business), free of charge. It looks a little like this. It allows you to also easily copy and download the data.

[![Cobalt intelligence verify an Indiana business](https://i2.wp.com/cobaltintelligence.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image-24.png?resize=640%2C627&ssl=1)](https://i2.wp.com/cobaltintelligence.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image-24.png?ssl=1)

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

[![Indiana Secretary of State business search](https://i1.wp.com/cobaltintelligence.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image-23.png?resize=640%2C538&ssl=1)](https://i1.wp.com/cobaltintelligence.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image-23.png?ssl=1)

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:

[![Indiana search results when searching for pizza](https://i2.wp.com/cobaltintelligence.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image-25.png?resize=640%2C398&ssl=1)](https://i2.wp.com/cobaltintelligence.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image-25.png?ssl=1)

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.

![Indiana Secretary of State details page](https://i1.wp.com/cobaltintelligence.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image-26.png?resize=640%2C298&ssl=1)

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!

[![Search results when searching by the organizer/incorporator](https://i0.wp.com/cobaltintelligence.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image-27.png?resize=640%2C281&ssl=1)](https://i0.wp.com/cobaltintelligence.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image-27.png?ssl=1)

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](https://cobaltintelligence.com/secretary-of-state).

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](https://cobaltintelligence.com/blog/getting-officers-and-documents-from-indianas-secretary-of-state/)
- [Scraping the Indiana Secretary of State for business data](https://cobaltintelligence.com/blog/scraping-the-indiana-secretary-of-state-for-business-data/)
- [Indiana Secretary of State business data via API](https://cobaltintelligence.com/blog/indiana-secretary-of-state-business-data-via-api/)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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