Business registration OSINT

Pull a business filing and the entity hands over more than the entity. A typical LLC record exposes:

• Registered agent name and physical street address — often the owner's home if a third-party RA wasn't used
• Members and managers by full legal name, sometimes with dates of birth in older filings
• Principal office address — for a side-hustle LLC, this is almost always the home
• EIN paper trail through old IRS filings linked from state databases
• Annual reports and any amendments, which catch life events (moves, new partners, dissolutions)

Cross-reference across states with OpenCorporates and a name turns into a portfolio. The off-duty security gig from 2017. The rental property LLC. Your spouse's Etsy shop. Every one of them naming you.

Start at your home state and widen out.

• Search your state's Secretary of State business portal by your full legal name, not the entity name. Most states allow officer-name search; a few hide it but the data is still indexed by aggregators.
• Run the same search on OpenCorporates — it pulls filings from all 50 states and surfaces side-businesses you forgot existed.
• Look up old DBAs (assumed names, fictitious business names) at the county clerk in any county you've lived in.
• Check dissolved entities. They don't disappear from the public record. The original filing with your home address is still searchable.

Write down every entity that names you and every address attached.

Clean each filing one of three ways.

• Move registered-agent service to a third-party RA. Northwest, Harbor Compliance, your attorney's firm — any of them substitute their address for yours on the public filing. File a Statement of Change of Registered Agent in each state.
• Switch the principal office address to a PO box or commercial mail receiving agency where state statute allows. Not every state does — some require a physical street address.
• Dissolve unused entities. That LLC from 2014 you never wound down is still publishing your address. File articles of dissolution and stop the annual republication cycle.
• Request officer redaction where the state offers it. A handful of states (NJ under Daniel's Law — its broker-removal statute, which also reaches state-published records — and CA in narrow cases) will redact officer names from business records for sworn personnel.

We handle the broker layer — the data brokers that scraped your business filings and merged them with your other records to build a profile. Those copies come down through our removal network.

The state filing itself is on you. SOS records are state-published, and the redaction or RA-change process runs directly with the state agency, not with us. We can't file an annual report under a third-party RA on your behalf.

What we can do: kill the downstream brokers that turned your old LLC filing into a Google result. Run a free scan and we'll show you which brokers are surfacing your business-registration address today.