Data coverage
Where the data comes from, how often it refreshes, what is included, what is intentionally excluded, and how each slice is labeled.
Florida Business API mirrors the public Florida Division of Corporations bulk feed. Every record is traceable back to a Sunbiz filing.
For live counts + refresh timestamps rendered from the production singleton, see /data-coverage. This page is the documentation companion.
Source
| Source | Cadence |
|---|---|
sftp://sftp.floridados.gov/Public/doc/Quarterly/Cor/cordata.zip | Quarterly reconciliation |
sftp://sftp.floridados.gov/Public/doc/cor/ (daily incrementals) | Every workday morning |
We do not republish anything that is not already public, and we do not modify underlying filings — only normalize them.
Coverage labels
Every dataset slice carries a coverage state. Pages render this as a <CoverageBadge>; the API response surfaces it on the meta.dataset_status field.
| Badge | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Live | Fully covered, count is authoritative. |
| Partial | Covered for some rows. Filterable but coverage is expanding. |
| Loading | Initial indexing in progress. |
| Coming soon | Planned for v2. |
| Not included | Intentionally excluded (e.g. officer home addresses — PII gate). |
What is included
| Dataset slice | State |
|---|---|
| Entity index (LLCs, Corps, LPs, LLPs, Trusts, Trade Names) | Live |
Embedded officer / principal data (entity record officers JSONB) | Live / large coverage |
| Normalized officer search index | Partial / expanding |
| Normalized registered-agent search index | Partial / expanding |
| Normalized address search index | Partial / expanding |
| Daily filing events | Live |
| Quarterly reconciliation | Live |
The normalized indexes carry a Partial badge because we are still rebuilding them from the historical snapshot. Searching by officer / agent / address works today; coverage continues to expand with every reconciliation pass.
What is excluded
| Field / slice | Why |
|---|---|
| Officer home addresses | PII gate. Public record but often resolves to a home. We follow FL DOS public-search guidance and do not expose. |
| Email / phone | Not in the source data. Anything you find elsewhere attaching contact info to FL DOS filings is third-party enrichment, not the filings themselves. |
| NAICS / industry codes | Not in source. Planned for v2 via name inference. |
| Historical filing events | The most recent 50 are returned per entity. Deeper history lands with the next quarterly snapshot. |
Verifying a record
Every entity detail response includes the source document_number. Plug it into the Sunbiz search at search.sunbiz.org to compare against the canonical FL DOS record. If you find a discrepancy, file a data correction — we cross-check on the next daily reconciliation.
Related
/data-coverage— live counts, last-refresh timestamps, coverage badges/status— system + dataset health/api-reference— full OpenAPI spec