South Dakota - Topograph

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

South Dakota coverage, pricing, and sources

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

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

Data Sources

South Dakota uses a single live integration against the South Dakota Secretary of State SoS Enterprise portal (sosenterprise.sd.gov). Every request hits the register in real time. There is no open-data feed or bulk extract available for free: the register only offers a paid paper subscription for bulk database downloads, so Topograph sources data directly from the live portal. The register covers every domestic and foreign for-profit and nonprofit corporation, LLC, limited partnership, registered limited liability partnership, financial institution (bank, trust company), and trade name filed in South Dakota.

Single mode only. Because no free bulk-data feed exists, South Dakota has one mode: live, authoritative, direct from the register. There is no fast/onboarding path based on a snapshot. All requests are verified against the live portal.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
Business ID	Two-letter prefix + six zero-padded digits (8 characters total)	`FB033693`	Assigned by the South Dakota Secretary of State. The prefix encodes the filing class (see table below).

Common Business ID prefixes:

Prefix	Filing Class
`DM`	Domestic corporation
`DC`	Domestic corporation (alternate)
`DL`	Domestic LLC
`FL`	Foreign LLC
`FB`	Foreign for-profit corporation
`NP`	Nonprofit corporation
`BK`	Bank / financial institution
`TN`	Trade name

The Business ID is exactly 8 characters. The two-letter prefix is always uppercase and the six-digit suffix is zero-padded. Both the prefix and the padding are significant. Do not strip or alter them when passing the ID to the API.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Found In
`businessId`	Two-letter prefix + six zero-padded digits	`FB033693`	All entities

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Pattern	Example	Match Type	Expected Results
By Name	2–100 chars	`"Acme"`	Starts-with (case-insensitive)	Multiple results
By Business ID	8 characters	`FB033693`	Exact	Exact match returned first (`matchType: id`); other results may follow

Starts-with search. Name search anchors on the beginning of the legal name (case-insensitive). Use more specific queries to narrow the result set, which is capped at 50 matches.

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Prefix is not optional	The two-letter prefix is part of the Business ID. Passing only the numeric portion (e.g. `033693`) is not a valid identifier and will return no results.
No officers or directors	The South Dakota register does not publish officers, directors, members, or organizers on any entity detail page. The only party disclosed publicly is the registered agent, which is returned under `otherKeyPersons`.
Registered agent is not a legal representative	The registered agent receives service of process but has no statutory authority to bind the entity. It appears under `otherKeyPersons`, not `legalRepresentatives`.
No shareholder list	South Dakota does not publish individual shareholders or owner lists for any entity type. For-profit corporations show an authorized capital figure (share count and par value) as part of the company profile, but no shareholder register exists.
No activity codes	NAICS, NACE, and ISIC codes are not collected by the South Dakota business register.
Addresses are concatenated	The portal returns the principal office address as a single concatenated string (e.g. `200 Commerce St.Smithfield, VA 23430 USA`) without a consistent separator between street and city. Topograph parses the address into structured fields where possible.
Foreign name field	Foreign entities registered in South Dakota may carry a separate foreign-registered name alongside the legal name in `company.alternateName`.
Term of duration	Most entities are “Perpetual” but some carry a fixed expiration date. When present, the expiration date is included in the company profile.
No open-data snapshot	Unlike many US states, South Dakota does not publish a free bulk dataset. Every request goes to the live register portal.

Mappings

Company Status

Status is read directly from the register and mapped to a Topograph standardized value.

Register Status	Standardized	Notes
Good Standing	Active	All annual reports current
Active	Active	Used on financial-institution filings
Revoked (Administrative)	Closed	Annual-report lapse; administrative dissolution
Dissolved	Closed	Voluntary dissolution
Withdrawn	Closed	Foreign entity withdrew South Dakota registration
Merged	Closed	Entity merged into another
Expired	Closed	Term of duration expired

Status values not in the table above are surfaced as-is from the register under company.status.localName and may be enriched by AI where the raw label maps to a known standardized category.

Data Availability

Data Point	Available	Notes
Company name	Yes	Current legal name
Foreign registered name	Yes	For foreign entities, when the entity uses a separate name in South Dakota
Company status	Yes	Sourced live from the register
Registration date	Yes	Initial filing date with the Secretary of State
Legal address	Yes	Principal office address (parsed where possible)
Mailing address	Yes	Separate mailing address when provided
Legal form	Yes	Business type as recorded by the register (e.g. Foreign Business Corporation, Domestic LLC)
Jurisdiction of formation	Yes	State or country where the entity was originally formed
Term of duration	Yes	”Perpetual” or an expiration date
Annual report due date	Yes	Next annual report due date
Registered agent	Yes	Name and physical/mailing address, returned as `otherKeyPersons`
Legal representatives	No	Officers, directors, and members are not published by the South Dakota register
Activity codes	No	Not collected by the register
Shareholders	No	Not published for any entity type
UBOs	No	No state beneficial-ownership register; the federal database is restricted
Trade Register Extract	Yes	Printed PDF of the live entity detail page, included at no extra charge with the company data
Annual report PDFs	Roadmap	Referenced in the entity filing history but not yet available as downloadable documents
Articles of Incorporation	Roadmap	Per-filing PDFs are deferred
Financial data	No	Not collected by the South Dakota register

Example API Responses

Search by Name

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

[
  {
    "id": "DL012345",
    "legalName": "ACME SOLUTIONS LLC",
    "countryCode": "US-SD",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "default"
    },
    "address": {
      "region": "SD",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  }
]

Search by Business ID

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-SD&query=FB033693" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "FB033693",
    "legalName": "ACME PACKAGED GOODS CORP.",
    "countryCode": "US-SD",
    "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-SD", "id": "FB033693", "dataPoints": ["company", "otherKeyPersons"]}'

{
  "company": {
    "id": "FB033693",
    "countryCode": "US-SD",
    "identifiers": { "businessId": "FB033693" },
    "legalName": "ACME PACKAGED GOODS CORP.",
    "registrationDate": "2009-03-25",
    "legalForm": {
      "localName": "Foreign Business Corporation",
      "standardized": "Corporation"
    },
    "status": {
      "localName": "Good Standing",
      "active": true
    },
    "legalAddress": {
      "street": "200 Commerce St.",
      "city": "Sioux Falls",
      "region": "SD",
      "postalCode": "57104",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  },
  "otherKeyPersons": [
    {
      "name": "SAMPLE REGISTERED AGENT INC.",
      "role": {
        "localName": "Registered Agent",
        "standardized": "RegisteredAgent"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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South Dakota coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Search Capabilities

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Company Status

​Data Availability

​Example API Responses

​Search by Name

​Search by Business ID

​Company Profile

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Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Company Status

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by Business ID

Company Profile