# Montana

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

> **Beta**: this country is in early development. Some datapoints or documents may be missing, the integration may be unstable, prices may change without notice, and it is not covered by SLAs.

## Overview

Topograph reads Montana SoS and returns the company profile and other key persons of Montana companies through one API.

## Coverage

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).

| Datapoint | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |
| Other key persons | Yes |

| Document | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Register extract | Yes |
| Articles of association | No |
| Financials | No |
| UBO extract | No |

### Documents, as the register names them

- Montana SoS Business Detail (printed)

### Speed

A company profile typically comes back from the register in 2 s (approx.) in prefill mode and 2 s in verification mode. These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.

## Sources

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

- **[Montana SoS](https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/business)**: The Montana Secretary of State business entity register, published through the public business search at biz.sosmt.gov. It covers every entity formed or qualified to do business in Montana. The public search portal exposes entity name, file number, type, status, addresses, registered agent, and qualification dates. Officers are not published in the public portal.
- **[GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)](https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-golden-copy/download-the-golden-copy)** (secondary): Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data

## Identifiers

Request a company by its Montana SoS File Number as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `US-MT`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full Montana 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.

| In the full reference | Entries |
| --- | --- |
| Identifiers and formats | 2 |
| Search patterns | 2 |
| Quirks | 8 |
| Legal forms | 21 |
| Officer roles | 2 |
| Company statuses | 13 |
| Documents | 1 |
| Example responses | 6 |

- Create a free account: https://www.topograph.co/sign-up?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fus-mt
- Sign in: https://www.topograph.co/sign-in?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fus-mt

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/us-mt.md returns the full reference as Markdown. Assistants signed in to the [Topograph Wizard MCP](https://docs.topograph.co/guides/topograph-mcp) can read it there too.

## Montana business register guide

[Montana business register guide](https://www.topograph.co/guides/business-registers-in-montana-united-states): how the register works, what it publishes and which documents it issues.

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Source: https://www.topograph.co/countries/us-mt