COBALT INTELLIGENCE · ISSUE #1
What's New at Cobalt
Welcome to the first What's New at Cobalt, a roundup of our latest updates. We've been busy: more UCC coverage, Puerto Rico and richer Indiana results, a cleaner dashboard, and a long list of improvements that make your searches faster and more reliable.
In this issue
UCC data now in 22 states
New coverage: Puerto Rico & Indiana
Dashboard updates
New fields & API improvements
State-by-state reliability roundup
Heads-up: field changes
Help & resources
THE BIG ONE
UCC data now in 22 states
UCC filings went from about 10 states to 22, and UCC now has its own API, so you can pull liens on their own or keep adding uccData=true to your SOS search.
New states: California, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin
Standalone UCC API: call UCC by itself, or add it to your SOS lookup
Fast responses: for states with very long lien histories, you get the 5 newest filings plus the full count in
uccDataCount
NEW COVERAGE
Puerto Rico SOS search
Puerto Rico is now a supported jurisdiction. Search by business name or registration index and get back status, addresses, resident agent, officers, filing documents and a screenshot of the registry record.
More detail from Indiana
Indiana launched a new state website, and we've moved over to it. Indiana results now include officers, filing history, name history, assumed names and address match.
Dashboard updates
Usage & billing in one place
Your usage and billing now live on one page, with a direct link to update your payment method and download past invoices.
Need more lookups?
If your volume is growing, we can set up a plan that fits. Just let me know and I'll put together options based on your usage.
New fields & API improvements
New fields
normalizedNextReportDueDate: annual report due dates in one consistent ISO format, no matter how the state formats themfranchiseTaxStatusfor Texas and DelawareTennessee: registered agent and revenue standing, management type, Series LLC status and member count
Nevada: Business ID, Series LLC status and management structure
We've also updated our Fields Available by State page, so you can see every field each state can return, plus typical response times. See fields by state →
Better matching & more accurate results
Address matching: results that match the address you sent now come first, and street address counts more toward
addressMatchTexas name correction: close misspellings now find the right registered business
More accurate
normalizedStatus: more state status codes map correctly to Active, and cached results use the same rules as live searchesSmarter IDs: Iowa and Rhode Island IDs come back zero-padded, and short IDs still find the record in Iowa, Rhode Island and Connecticut
Fewer empty results: address searches that find nothing live now retry as a standard search, and Georgia now finds names with accented characters
Clearer errors: rate-limit (429) messages and short-name TIN errors now tell you exactly what went wrong
State-by-state reliability roundup
States change their websites all the time, so we're constantly keeping up behind the scenes. Recently we shipped fixes and speed improvements in 25+ states, including:
Faster | More reliable |
|---|---|
Illinois, Washington, California, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Missouri | Iowa, Wisconsin, Nevada, Maine, Utah, Mississippi, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Florida, Arkansas, North Carolina, Kansas, South Dakota, Georgia, Connecticut, Montana, Texas, Maryland |
If you noticed a state acting up recently, there's a good chance it's already fixed. If not, just let me know.
HEADS-UP: FIELD CHANGES
Arizona LLCs: results no longer include an annual report due date, since Arizona doesn't require annual reports for LLCs. Other Arizona business types still return it.
Delaware: results no longer include
normalizedStatus.aiConfidenceLevelhas been removed from responses.
If your integration relies on any of these, just let me know and we'll help you adjust.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Business Search Suggestions lets your users pick the right business as they type, before you run the SOS lookup. It's included with monthly plans.
HELP & RESOURCES
Have a question about a field, a state or your plan? Our help center has quick answers on everything from UCC and OFAC screening to Business Monitoring and testing in sandbox mode.
That's it for this issue. If any of these updates raise questions, or there's something you'd love to see us build next, just let me know.
Patricia Muir
Customer Success Manager, Cobalt Intelligence
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Real-time business verification data from official Secretary of State sources.