Confirm that a company exists, where it was formed, whether it's in good standing and who acts as its registered agent, without clicking through five state websites. Connect the Firecrawl connector and Claude can look up an LLC or corporation using Firecrawl Alexandria, pulling the entry directly from registries including UK Companies House, the Delaware Division of Corporations and Florida's Sunbiz.
Best for
- Making sure a landlord, supplier or client is a genuine registered entity before money or signatures change hands.
- Locating the registered agent when you need to serve process or send formal notice.
- Finding the state of formation and the other states where a company is registered to do business.
Connector and data providers
Connector: the Firecrawl connector. Claude uses it to query the registries listed in Firecrawl Alexandria, and each lookup takes a few credits from your connected team's Firecrawl plan.
Data providers in Firecrawl Alexandria
| Provider | Tool | Gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware Division of Corporations | Search plus entity record | Look up by name or file number, then read the free record: whether it's a corporation or an LLC, its type, the formation date, foreign or domestic, plus the agent's name, address and phone. Status is not part of it. |
| Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) | Search plus entity record | Names listed alphabetically with their status, then the complete entry: FEI/EIN, filing date, status and last event, the registered agent, each officer and director, the annual report history, and PDF links for filed documents. |
| Colorado Secretary of State | Search plus entity record | A name search showing status and formation date, then a record with form, status, formation jurisdiction, principal office, registered agent and the month its annual report falls due. |
| UK Companies House | Search, profile, officers, PSC | A company search followed by the profile (type, status, incorporation date, registered office, SIC codes, former names, and accounts and confirmation statement dates), then the officer list and the PSC register. |
| Virginia SCC, Georgia, Missouri | Entity name search | Every result row shows the entity type and status, and Virginia and Georgia rows add the registered agent. A separate record tool in each state opens the full entry. |
Explore Firecrawl Alexandria data providers across categories
Starter prompt
Fill in the company and the states you want checked:
Use Firecrawl to look up Palantir Technologies Inc. in the Delaware and
Colorado business registries in Firecrawl Alexandria. Quote me the cost
of each tool before calling it.
Per state, I need:
- The exact legal name plus the file or ID number.
- Entity type, formation date, and whether it's domestic or foreign
there.
- The status, or a clear note if the registry gave none.
- The registered agent's name and address.
Stick to the registry's fields. Where something is missing, tell me
rather than guessing.Before you start
- Link Firecrawl to Claude. Go to the Firecrawl connector and press Connect. Your browser opens Firecrawl so you can log in or register for free, select a team and grant access. Nothing else is needed, no API key and no MCP server, and Firecrawl in Claude explains each step.
- Turn the connector on. In a chat, click +, open Connectors and switch on Firecrawl.
- Name the state when you can. Companies often form in one state and register in others, and every registry needs its own search.
Limitations of using Claude to look up an LLC or corporation
Company filings live in government systems that update every day and disclose different fields. Answering from memory or a general web search, Claude runs into six problems.
- The US has no central register. Businesses register state by state, and OpenCorporates counts more than 50 official registers, every state and territory keeping its own with its own data format (OpenCorporates). Leave the state out of the question and Claude has to guess where to look.
- Delaware status costs money. Delaware's free search shows a company's name and file number, when it was formed and who its registered agent is, with anything further offered for a fee (Delaware Division of Corporations). Online status is $10 per entity, or $20 including franchise tax and filing history (Delaware). Any snippet calling a Delaware company "active" got that from somewhere other than the free record.
- A search result isn't proof of standing. Delaware mixes active and inactive entities in its search and cautions that appearing there doesn't indicate current status. Since status shifts, a stale directory listing can present a dissolved company as operating.
- Officer data is patchy. Only some state databases include officer or director names, and beneficial owners are generally absent from the public filings states keep (OpenCorporates). In South Carolina, the Secretary of State's office says it has no names or addresses for officers or directors at all (SC Secretary of State). Asked who runs an LLC, Claude may reach for a name from an unrelated source.
- The UK works differently. Companies House runs one national register and publishes the registered address, incorporation date, current and past officers, former names and insolvency details at no charge (GOV.UK). Habits from US lookups, like hunting for a registered agent, don't apply there.
- Stale or made-up details. Anthropic publishes a training cutoff for every model and says that on recent events Claude may not have accurate information (Anthropic). Its help center adds that answers are sometimes incorrect or misleading, and that Claude shouldn't be your singular source of truth (Anthropic). That matters when the detail in question is a file number or a formation date nobody double-checked.
How it works
Three parts sit behind a registry lookup in Claude:
- Firecrawl Alexandria: where AI agents go for structured data, from 100+ licensed official providers to government registries such as the ones above and search indexes Firecrawl runs over web pages, papers, code docs and public-sector material. In Firecrawl's evaluation of 845 tasks, the model and prompts never changed and answers were graded blind by AI, and Firecrawl Alexandria raised answer quality by 21% compared with agents left to their built-in web tools.
- A search, then the record: each registry pairs a name search, which returns the registry's identifier (Delaware uses file numbers, Florida document numbers, Colorado 11-digit IDs and the UK company numbers), with a record tool that opens the full filing behind that identifier.
- Registry wording kept: fields arrive with the registry's labels and values, so Colorado shows "Good Standing" and Florida shows "ACTIVE". The Delaware tool flags every record as missing status, which stops Claude from treating a blank as a clean bill of health.
Looking up an LLC in Claude with and without Firecrawl Alexandria
| Memory and web search alone | Registry tools in Firecrawl Alexandria | |
|---|---|---|
| Record source | Training data, directory sites and dated news | The state or national registry, queried when you ask |
| Identifiers | Frequently absent or wrong | Each result carries the number the registry itself assigned |
| Status | Whatever an old cached page showed | Current registry status, with Delaware records marked as excluding it |
| Registered agent | Usually left out | Agent name and address from the filing, plus a phone number in Delaware |
| Officers and owners | Guessed from LinkedIn or press coverage | Officer and director lists from Florida, and UK officers plus PSC entries from Companies House |
| Multiple states | One result at a time | A Delaware formation shown next to foreign registrations in Colorado, Virginia or Georgia |
| Source | Difficult to trace | Government registries reached through Firecrawl Alexandria, a catalog that also counts 100+ official providers on topics from business and markets to public records and news. Explore the catalog |
Build your own entity lookup workflow
Start from the decision in front of you. A small business vetting a vendor just needs to know it's real and active:
With Firecrawl, check whether Publix Super Markets, Inc. is an active
Florida company. Search Sunbiz, open the entry for that exact legal name
and report status, filing date, last event, registered agent and the
latest three annual reports. Show what each call costs first.A paralegal getting ready to serve a company needs the right agent in the right state:
Use Firecrawl to get the Delaware file number for "Palantir Technologies
Inc.", then open its Delaware entity record and its Colorado record. Give
me the registered agent and full address for each state and say which
one it was formed in.Naming the registry and the exact legal name in each prompt stops Claude from choosing a look-alike company off the search results.
Take it further
UK directors
Use Firecrawl to find Tesco PLC on Companies House and list its current
officers with their roles and appointment dates.Control of a UK company
With Firecrawl, list the persons with significant control for UK company
01959090, including the nature of control and each notification date.Virginia by entity type
Use Firecrawl to search the Virginia SCC for stock corporations named
Capital One Financial. Return entity ID, status, principal office and
registered agent.Georgia exact match
With Firecrawl, run an exact-match search in Georgia's business registry
for "The Home Depot, Inc." and give me the control number, business type,
status and registered agent.Costs before running
Use Firecrawl to list the Firecrawl Alexandria tools that search state
business registries, with each one's state and price per call. Don't
run any yet.What it costs
You pay nothing to find a registry tool or check its price. Credits come out of your Firecrawl balance once a lookup actually runs, and Firecrawl pricing shows each plan's allowance.
| Registry | Search | Record | Credits per call |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | File numbers for a name | Formation date, kind, type and agent | 5 search, 5 record |
| Florida (Sunbiz) | Nearby names with status | Officers, annual reports and filings | 5 search, 5 record |
| Colorado | IDs, status and formation dates | Status, form, jurisdiction and agent | 5 search, 3 record |
| UK Companies House | Matching companies | Profile, officers or PSC, one per call | 5 each |
| Virginia, Georgia, Missouri | One page of results | One full entry | 5 each |
At the end of each answer, Claude lists the registry tools it ran with a credit count for every one.
[ Company lookups in Claude ]
Connect Firecrawl and have Claude verify any company against its official registry. Finding tools and prices is free.
Related use cases
- How to check if a brand name is trademarked in Claude: find out whether the company's name is also registered as a mark before you depend on it.
- How to check a company's BBB complaints in Claude: read its complaint history and BBB grade once the registry confirms the business is real.
- How to find someone's work email in Claude: reach an officer named in the record at their work address.
Coverage limits
- Seven registries. Six US states (Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Virginia) plus Companies House in the UK. Companies formed elsewhere need that state's own website.
- No Delaware status or history. Only the free Delaware record comes back, so proof of good standing still means the state's paid lookup or a certificate.
- Searches cast a wide net. Florida results mix in near-miss names, inactive companies and even trademarks, while an exact-match search in Missouri also surfaced lapsed fictitious names. Open the record for the precise legal name before you rely on anything.