# North Carolina

Company data from the North Carolina 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 North Carolina Secretary of State, Business Registration Division and returns the company profile, legal representatives and other key persons of North Carolina companies through one API.

## Coverage

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

Every request is a full register read, in verification mode.

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

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

### Documents, as the register names them

- NC SOS Business Registration Profile (printed)
- Articles of Organization / Articles of Incorporation

### Speed

A company profile typically comes back from the register in 14 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.

- **[North Carolina Secretary of State, Business Registration Division](https://www.sosnc.gov/)**: Official North Carolina business entity register maintained by the Secretary of State, Business Registration Division. Covers every domestic and foreign entity registered under the NC General Statutes: business corporations (Ch. 55), nonprofit corporations (Ch. 55A), professional corporations (Ch. 55B), limited liability companies including LLCs, PLLCs, and L3Cs (Ch. 57D), partnerships and LLPs (Ch. 59), plus banking, insurance, cooperative, and public-authority forms under chapters 53C, 54, 54B, 54C, 58, 117, and 160A. Data is queried live from the NC SOS portal (sosnc.gov) and is authoritative, updated as filings are processed.
- **[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 SOS ID as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `US-NC`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full North Carolina 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 | 6 |
| Legal forms | 30 |
| Officer roles | 45 |
| Company statuses | 25 |
| Documents | 3 |
| Example responses | 5 |

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

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/us-nc.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.

## North Carolina business register guide

[North Carolina business register guide](https://www.topograph.co/guides/business-registers-in-north-carolina-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-nc