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Rhode Island

Company data from the Rhode Island business register, through the Topograph API.

Topograph reads Rhode Island Department of State, Business Services and returns the company profile, legal representatives and other key persons of Rhode Island 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
  • RI Department of State Business Services entity detail (printed)

A company profile typically comes back from the register in 2 s in prefill mode and 2 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 Rhode Island business register maintained by the Department of State Business Services Division. The public Business Portal entity detail page exposes legal name, identification number, entity type (Domestic / Foreign and Profit / Non-profit qualifier), date of incorporation or registration in Rhode Island and effective date, current status with revocation / withdrawal / dissolution dates, the principal office address, the registered-agent name and address with resignation / address-maintained flags, the statutory officers and directors of a corporation or the managers of an LLC, authorized share capital classes (with series, par value, total authorized, total issued and outstanding), the corporate purpose, the NAICS code with a description, registered fictitious / DBA names, prior corporate names, and merger history. Shareholders and beneficial owners are not collected at the state level.

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

Request a company by its RI Identification Number as the id, with countryCode set to US-RI. 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
  • Quirks8
  • Legal forms13
  • Officer roles33
  • Company statuses4
  • Documents1
  • Example responses5
Rhode Island business register guideHow the register works, what it publishes and which documents it issues.