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This guide contains public integration notes for Colorado. 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.

Colorado coverage, pricing, and sources

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Data Sources
Company Identifiers
Search Capabilities
Quirks & Gotchas
Mappings
- Legal Forms
- Company Statuses
Data Availability

Data Sources

Colorado data comes from the Colorado Secretary of State business register, through two channels. The register covers every entity filed with the Secretary of State: corporations, foreign corporations, limited liability companies, nonprofit corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, general partnerships, and cooperatives.

Open data, refreshed daily (onboarding mode). The Secretary of State publishes every registered entity, active and inactive, with legal name, entity ID, entity type, status, formation date, principal address, and registered agent. A status change can take up to a day to appear. This channel also powers name search.
Business Database Search (verification mode). The live, authoritative face of the register: legal name, 11-digit entity ID, status, entity form, formation date, principal office address, and registered agent name and address. It also serves the Trade Register Extract and the Formation Filing.

Officers and managers are not filed. Colorado does not require business entities to file owner, officer, director, member, or manager information with the Secretary of State. That information is kept in the entity records at the principal office. The registered agent is returned as an other key person; legalRepresentatives is intentionally empty.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
Colorado SOS Entity ID	11 digits, numeric only	`19931121425`	Assigned by the Colorado Secretary of State. The primary identifier for search and profile lookups.

The entity ID is 11 digits and purely numeric. Pass it exactly as returned by search. The full list of filing documents for an entity also uses this ID as the primary key.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Found In
`entityId`	11 digits, numeric only	`19931121425`	All entities

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Pattern	Example	Match Type	Expected Results
By Name	2-200 chars	`"Acme Holdings"`	Full-text, plus exact and starts-with matches (case-insensitive)	Multiple results
By Entity ID	11 digits	`19931121425`	Exact	Exact match returned first (`matchType: id`); other results may follow

Name search combines a full-text match on the legal name with exact and starts-with matches. Use fuller query strings to narrow the result set.

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Officers and managers are not available	Colorado law does not require entities to file owner, officer, director, member, or manager information with the Secretary of State. These fields are kept in the entity’s own records. `legalRepresentatives` is always empty for Colorado entities.
No shareholder or UBO register	Colorado does not publish shareholders or beneficial owners for any entity type. Federal FinCEN BOI records are separate and not publicly accessible.
Registered agent is an other key person	The registered agent is surfaced under `otherKeyPersons`, not under `legalRepresentatives`. It receives service of process and has no statutory authority to bind the entity.
No activity codes	Industry classification codes are not published on Colorado Secretary of State business summary records.
Tax ID is separate	The Colorado SOS entity ID is not a tax ID. For federal EIN or Colorado state tax IDs, direct the entity to the IRS or Colorado Department of Revenue.
Trade Register Extract is bundled	The Trade Register Extract (printed current detail page) is included at no extra charge with the company data block. The Formation Filing PDF is ordered separately.

Mappings

Legal Forms

Legal form is sourced from the entity type recorded by the Colorado Secretary of State. Verification mode returns the label shown on the business database (for example Limited Liability Company); onboarding mode returns the register’s full entity-type name, which marks domestic and foreign registrations (for example Domestic Limited Liability Company, Foreign Profit Corporation). The table below lists the main forms.

Colorado entity forms

Colorado Entity Form	Standardized
Corporation	Corporation
Foreign Corporation	Corporation
Limited Liability Company	Limited Liability Company
Foreign Limited Liability Company	Limited Liability Company
Nonprofit Corporation	Nonprofit Organization
Limited Partnership	Partnership
Limited Liability Partnership	Partnership
General Partnership	Partnership
Cooperative	Cooperative

The register also records less common forms, such as public benefit corporations, unincorporated nonprofit associations, limited cooperative associations, credit unions, and ditch and water companies. For the complete list of legal forms, see the pricing page.

Company Statuses

Colorado uses a closed set of status values. Good Standing and Exists are returned with active: true; every other value is returned with active: false.

Status	Active
Good Standing	Yes
Exists	Yes
Delinquent	No
Noncompliant	No
Voluntarily Dissolved	No
Administratively Dissolved	No
Judicially Dissolved	No
Dissolved (Term Expired)	No
Withdrawn	No
Revoked	No
Merged	No
Converted	No
Consolidated	No
Registered Agent Resigned	No
Effectiveness Prevented	No

Data Availability

Data Point	Available	Notes
Company name	Yes	Current legal name from the register
Company status	Yes	e.g. Good Standing, Voluntarily Dissolved. Live in verification mode; up to a day old in onboarding mode
Registration date	Yes	Formation date as filed with the Secretary of State
Legal address	Yes	Principal office street address, or the mailing address when no street address is on file
Legal form	Yes	Entity type from the register, mapped to a standardized category
Legal representatives	No	Colorado does not require officer/director/member/manager filings. Returned as an empty array in verification mode; not offered in onboarding mode
Registered agent	Yes	Name and address, returned as an other key person
Activity codes	No	Not published on Colorado SOS records
Shareholders	No	Not published
UBOs	No	No public beneficial ownership register in Colorado
Trade Register Extract	Yes	Printed PDF of the current detail page, included with company data
Formation Filing	Yes	PDF of the original formation filing, ordered separately
Certified copies	No	Not yet available through Topograph
Certificate of Good Standing	No	Not yet available through Topograph
Financial data	No	Not collected

Example API Responses

Search by Name

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

[
  {
    "id": "20241234567",
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS LLC",
    "countryCode": "US-CO",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "default"
    },
    "address": {
      "region": "CO",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  }
]

Search by Entity ID

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-CO&query=20241234567" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "20241234567",
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS LLC",
    "countryCode": "US-CO",
    "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-CO", "id": "20241234567", "dataPoints": ["company", "otherKeyPersons"]}'

{
  "company": {
    "id": "20241234567",
    "countryCode": "US-CO",
    "identifiers": { "entityId": "20241234567" },
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS LLC",
    "status": {
      "localName": "Good Standing",
      "active": true
    },
    "registrationDate": "2024-03-15",
    "legalForm": {
      "localName": "Limited Liability Company",
      "standardized": "Limited Liability Company"
    },
    "legalAddress": {
      "addressLine1": "123 Main Street",
      "city": "Denver",
      "region": "CO",
      "postalCode": "80202",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  },
  "otherKeyPersons": [
    {
      "type": "individual",
      "role": {
        "localName": "Registered Agent",
        "standardized": "Registered Agent"
      },
      "individual": {
        "name": { "fullName": "JANE SMITH" },
        "residenceAddress": {
          "addressLine1": "456 Oak Avenue",
          "city": "Denver",
          "region": "CO",
          "postalCode": "80203",
          "countryCode": "US"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

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Colorado coverage, pricing, and sources

Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Company Statuses

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by Entity ID

Company Profile

​Start here

Colorado coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Search Capabilities

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Legal Forms

​Company Statuses

​Data Availability

​Example API Responses

​Search by Name

​Search by Entity ID

​Company Profile

Start here

Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Company Statuses

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by Entity ID

Company Profile