Arkansas - Topograph

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This guide contains public integration notes for Arkansas. Use it for identifier formats, search behavior, and country-specific caveats. The live source of truth for coverage, pricing, data sources, documents, legal forms, roles, and status values is the pricing page.

Arkansas coverage, pricing, and sources

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Country details below are preserved as integration notes. If a table or example conflicts with the live pricing page, use the pricing page as the source of truth and contact support.

Data Sources
Company Identifiers
Search Capabilities
Quirks & Gotchas
Mappings
Data Availability

API access: US-AR is not yet part of the public countryCode enum. Contact us to enable it on your workspace. Requests sent with countryCode: "US-AR" will otherwise return 400 until the enum is expanded.

Data Sources

Arkansas uses a single integration against the Arkansas Secretary of State, Business & Commercial Services portal (sos-corp-search.ark.org). The portal is publicly accessible and covers domestic and foreign entities filed with the SoS: corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, general partnerships, and nonprofits. The portal exposes:

Legal name, filing number, entity type, and filing status
Principal address and registered agent with address
Filing date and, for foreign entities, state of origin
Officers (when filed with the SoS)

The printable entity detail page is delivered as the Trade Register Extract, included at no extra charge with every company data request.

Arkansas data is retrieved directly from the public SoS portal on each request. There is no snapshot or bulk extract available from this register. Frequently queried entities often respond quickly due to server-side caching on the portal.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
Arkansas Filing Number	8-9 digits; legacy filings begin with `100` or `800`, current with `811`	`811388512`	Assigned by the Arkansas Secretary of State at time of registration

Arkansas filing numbers are 8-9 digit numerics with no separators or leading zeros. The prefix loosely tracks registration era: 100… and 800… are legacy filings, 811… is the current series for modern registrations.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Found In
`filingNumber`	8-9 digits, no prefix	`811388512`	All entities

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Pattern	Example	Match Type	Expected Results
By Name	2-100 chars	`"Walmart"`	Starts-with (case-insensitive)	Multiple results, up to 50 returned
By Filing Number	8-9 digits	`811388512`	Exact	Exact match returned first (`matchType: id`)

Result cap. The SoS portal silently caps search results at 250 rows server-side. Topograph returns up to 50 results ranked alphabetically. For narrow queries this is invisible; for broad name queries (e.g. a single common word) expect truncation without a truncated flag in the response.

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
No identifier prefix or padding	Filing numbers are plain 8-9 digit integers. Do not add leading zeros or prefixes. Pass the number exactly as returned by search.
`Incorporator/Organizer` is a single role	The Arkansas SoS uses one label for both LLC organizers and corporation incorporators. The distinction is not recoverable from public data.
Legacy “SEE FILE” officers	Older filings (typically `100…` series) often carry a `SEE FILE` placeholder in the officers block. This means the officer data exists on paper but is not digitized on the portal. The API returns an empty officers list for these entities.
Status field: `Pending`	A `Pending` status means the filing has been submitted but not finalized. The `active` field in the response is `undefined` (neither `true` nor `false`) for pending entities.
No shareholders or UBOs	Arkansas does not publish shareholder lists or beneficial ownership data at the state level. Federal FinCEN BOI records are restricted.
No activity codes	The Arkansas SoS does not collect NAICS, NACE, or ISIC codes. Industry classification is not available.
Fictitious names live separately	DBA-style fictitious name registrations are a separate track and are not included in the business entity search index.
Certificate of Good Standing is paid	The Certificate of Good Standing exists but requires a separate purchase through the Arkansas state payment flow. It is not yet available through Topograph.

Mappings

Legal Forms

Legal form is sourced from the entity-type field published by the Arkansas Secretary of State. The raw string is passed through to legalForm.localName and also used as input for AI-inferred standardization. Common entity types observed:

Common Arkansas entity types

AR SoS Entity Type	Standardized
For Profit Corporation	Corporation
Foreign For Profit Corporation	Corporation
Non-Profit Corporation	NonprofitOrganization
Foreign Non-Profit Corporation	NonprofitOrganization
Limited Liability Company	LimitedLiabilityCompany
Foreign Limited Liability Company	LimitedLiabilityCompany
Limited Partnership	Partnership
Foreign Limited Partnership	Partnership
General Partnership	Partnership
Limited Liability Partnership	Partnership
Professional Association	Corporation
Bank	Other
Insurance Company	Other

The full list of entity types and their standardized mappings is on the pricing page. The table above lists commonly observed types; the register may publish additional variants.

Officer Roles

Officer role labels on the Arkansas SoS portal are free-text. Topograph normalizes them through AI enrichment to produce a standardized role and English translation.

Raw AR Role Label	Standardized (AI-inferred)	Notes
President	President
Vice President	VicePresident	Also observed as `Vice-President`
Secretary	Secretary
Assistant Secretary	Secretary	Also observed as `Assistant Sec.`
Treasurer	Treasurer
Director	Director
Manager	Manager
Member	Member	Member-managed LLCs
Owner	Owner
Incorporator/Organizer	(AI-inferred)	Single AR label covering both LLC organizers and incorporators
Incorporator	Incorporator
Organizer	Organizer
Registered Agent	RegisteredAgent	Key person; no authority to bind the entity

Roles not listed above are still included in the response with their raw AR label as localName. Standardization is AI-inferred from the raw text.

Filing Status

AR SoS Status	`active` field	Notes
Good Standing	`true`	Entity is in good standing with the SoS
Pending	`undefined`	Filing submitted but not yet finalized
Dissolved	`false`
Expired	`false`
Forfeited Charter	`false`	Charter revoked, typically for failure to file or pay fees
Converted	`false`	Entity converted to another form
Merged	`false`	Entity merged into another entity

Data Availability

Data Point	Available	Notes
Company name	Yes	Current legal name
Company status	Yes	`active: true/false/undefined` plus the raw SoS status string
Registration date	Yes	SoS initial filing date
Legal address	Yes	Principal address as filed with the SoS
Legal form	Yes	Raw entity type from the SoS, with AI-inferred standardization
Legal representatives	Yes	Officers as filed; normalized through AI role enrichment
Registered agent	Yes	Name and address from the SoS detail page
State of origin	Yes	Two-letter US state code for foreign entities (e.g. `DE`)
Trade Register Extract	Yes	Printed PDF of the SoS entity detail page; included at no extra charge
Activity codes	No	Not collected by the Arkansas SoS
Shareholders	No	Not published by the Arkansas SoS
UBOs	No	No state-level beneficial ownership register; federal FinCEN BOI is restricted
Certificate of Good Standing	Roadmap	Requires a separate paid purchase through the Arkansas state portal; not yet integrated
Fictitious names (DBAs)	No	Registered under a separate track, not part of the business entity dataset
Financial data	No	Not collected

Example API Responses

Search by Name

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-AR&query=Acme" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "811388512",
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS, INC.",
    "countryCode": "US-AR",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "default"
    },
    "address": {
      "region": "AR",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  }
]

Search by Filing Number

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-AR&query=811388512" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "811388512",
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS, INC.",
    "countryCode": "US-AR",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "id"
    }
  }
]

Company Profile

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/company" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countryCode": "US-AR", "id": "811388512", "dataPoints": ["company", "legalRepresentatives"]}'

{
  "company": {
    "id": "811388512",
    "countryCode": "US-AR",
    "identifiers": { "filingNumber": "811388512" },
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS, INC.",
    "registrationDate": "2012-03-15",
    "status": {
      "localName": "Good Standing",
      "active": true
    },
    "legalForm": {
      "localName": "Foreign For Profit Corporation",
      "standardized": "Corporation"
    },
    "legalAddress": {
      "streetAddress": "123 Main Street",
      "city": "Little Rock",
      "region": "AR",
      "postalCode": "72201",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  },
  "legalRepresentatives": [
    {
      "fullName": "JANE A. EXAMPLE",
      "role": {
        "localName": "President",
        "englishTranslation": "President"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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Arkansas coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Search Capabilities

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Legal Forms

​Officer Roles

​Filing Status

​Data Availability

​Example API Responses

​Search by Name

​Search by Filing Number

​Company Profile

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Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Officer Roles

Filing Status

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by Filing Number

Company Profile