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Michigan

Company data from the Michigan business register, through the Topograph API.

Topograph reads Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), MiBusiness Registry and returns the company profile, legal representatives and other key persons of Michigan companies through one API.

What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.

Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).

Datapoints

  • Company profileYes
  • Legal representativesYes
  • Other key personsYes

Documents

  • Register extractYes
  • Articles of associationNo
  • FinancialsNo
  • UBO extractNo
  • MiBusiness Registry Entity Detail (printed)

A company profile typically comes back from the register in 2 s in prefill mode and 3 s in verification mode.

These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.

The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.

  • Official Michigan business entity register maintained by the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), Corporations, Securities & Commercial Licensing Bureau. Covers every domestic and foreign profit corporation, non-profit corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, limited liability partnership and professional service entity filed in Michigan. The public MiBusiness Registry portal (launched June 2025) exposes the legal name, prior names, 9-digit identification number, jurisdiction, entity type, current status, annual report standing and due date, initial filing date, resident agent, registered office street and mailing addresses, and the most recently reported President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Directors with names and addresses.

  • Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data

Request a company by its Michigan LARA Identification Number as the id, with countryCode set to US-MI. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.

  • Identifiers and formats2
  • Search patterns2
  • Quirks5
  • Legal forms20
  • Officer roles5
  • Company statuses7
  • Documents1
  • Example responses5
Michigan business register guideHow the register works, what it publishes and which documents it issues.