Business search · Colorado
Colorado business search
The Colorado Secretary of State keeps the official record of every company, LLC and corporation registered in Colorado. Look one up by name and see status, entity type, formation date and registered agent. Clerkfield reads Colorado's open data directly, and every result shows the source and the date of the data.
What Colorado's records include
The fields a Clerkfield result returns for Colorado, taken from the state's own record.
- Colorado entity ID (11 digits)
- Legal name, with the state's added status-and-date suffix removed
- Status in Colorado's own words
- Entity type
- Date formed
- Principal office address
- Registered agent name
- Every other column the state publishes, including mailing address, jurisdiction of formation and the agent's addresses
- A link to the entity's page on the Secretary of State site
- The date and time the state last refreshed the dataset
Not in Colorado's free records
No officers published.
Types of business Colorado registers
- Domestic Limited Liability Company (DLLC)
- Domestic Profit Corporation (DPC)
- Domestic Nonprofit Corporation (DNC)
- Foreign Limited Liability Company (FLLC)
- Foreign Profit Corporation (FPC)
- Domestic Limited Partnership (DLP)
- Domestic Limited Liability Partnership (DLLP)
What Colorado's statuses mean
Colorado uses its own words for a business's standing. Clerkfield keeps the state's wording in every result and marks each one active or inactive.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Good Standing | The entity is current: its periodic reports and fees are filed on time and it has a registered agent on record. |
| Noncompliant | The periodic report was not filed by its due date. The entity still exists and can file late with a penalty. |
| Delinquent | The late-filing window passed without a report, or a resigned registered agent was never replaced. The entity still exists but is behind; a Statement Curing Delinquency restores Good Standing. |
| Voluntarily Dissolved | The owners filed dissolution documents and closed the entity. |
| Administratively Dissolved | The state dissolved the entity, usually for a missed report or missing agent. Colorado only used this status before October 1, 2005. |
| Judicially Dissolved | A court ordered the entity dissolved and the decree was filed with the Secretary of State. |
| Withdrawn | An out-of-state entity gave up its authority to do business in Colorado. |
How to search Colorado records by hand
The state's own search is at www.coloradosos.gov.
- Open the Secretary of State's business database search.
- Enter the 11-digit ID if you have it; otherwise type one or two key words of the name, without punctuation.
- If several names match, click the ID number of the right record.
- Read the status and registered agent on the entity's Summary page.
- Open "Filing history and documents" to view filed PDFs, or print a free certificate of good standing.
Fees and how current the data is
Fees
Periodic report $25; late-filing penalty $50; Statement Curing Delinquency $100; LLC articles of organization and corporation articles of incorporation $50 each; certificates of good standing and certified copies are free online.
How current it is
Colorado Department of State open data on data.colorado.gov, refreshed automatically every day after midnight.
Good to know about Colorado records
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The Secretary of State does not collect owners, officers, members or managers, so no Colorado result can name them. Ask the business for an operating agreement or ownership documents.
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Colorado renames closed companies by adding "Dissolved" and the date to the name. A company left Delinquent for more than 400 days also gets "Delinquent" and the date added, and its original name is released for others to use.
03
Names starting with "A", "An" or "The" are filed under that word, so search "The Pizza Shop" under T.
04
Some companies dissolved before 1997 were dropped from the online database and live only on microfilm at the Secretary of State.
Liens on Colorado businesses
Colorado UCC filings are kept by the Colorado Secretary of State, UCC filings and searched at www.coloradosos.gov. Free online searches and copies; certified search reports have a separate fee. Clerkfield doesn't search Colorado liens yet.
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No. The Secretary of State does not collect owners, officers, members or managers, so a Colorado check confirms the company and its registered agent but not who runs it.
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Clerkfield reads the Colorado Department of State's business dataset on data.colorado.gov, which refreshes every day after midnight. Each result shows when the state last updated it.
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Noncompliant means the periodic report missed its due date; the company can still file late. If the late window also passes, the status becomes Delinquent. For a January report month, those dates are March 31 and May 31.
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Yes. It files a Statement Curing Delinquency, which costs $100 online, and returns to Good Standing once accepted. After five or more years delinquent, the signer must also provide an affidavit and photo ID.
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Colorado adds the word and the dissolution date to the name when a company closes. Clerkfield strips that suffix so the name matches what the merchant gave you, and shows the status separately.
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No. Certificates of good standing and certified copies are free to print from the Secretary of State's website.