# Rhode Island

Company data from the Rhode Island 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 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.

## 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 |
| Legal representatives | 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

- RI Department of State Business Services entity detail (printed)

### Speed

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.

## Sources

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

- **[Rhode Island Department of State, Business Services](https://business.sos.ri.gov/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSearch.aspx)**: 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.
- **[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 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 Rhode Island 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 | 13 |
| Officer roles | 33 |
| Company statuses | 4 |
| Documents | 1 |
| Example responses | 5 |

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

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

## Rhode Island business register guide

[Rhode Island business register guide](https://www.topograph.co/guides/business-registers-in-rhode-island-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-ri