New Business Formation

New Business Formation signals surface newly registered legal entities within hours of official state recording—giving go-to-market teams access to net-new businesses before they appear in any commercial database.

Autobound operates a proprietary ingestion and normalization infrastructure spanning all 50 US states. Each state exposes entity registration data through a distinct schema, format, and delivery mechanism—with significant variation in field naming, filing taxonomy, address structure, and update cadence. Our pipeline abstracts this complexity into a single, consistent schema, resolving cross-state inconsistencies in real time and enriching records with domain and contact data where available.

Each signal includes the legal entity name, entity type, principal address, registered agent, filing date, and jurisdiction. Records are enriched with domain resolution (SERP + LLM), officer LinkedIn profiles (SERP + verification), officer email, company LinkedIn, firmographic data (industry, employee count, description), and NAICS classification.

The result: you know the moment a new business is registered in your territory—before they've been cold-called, enriched, or added to any competitor's database. This is the earliest possible buying signal for SMB-focused sellers, franchise developers, insurance brokers, payroll providers, attorneys, accountants, and any GTM team targeting net-new businesses.

Priority states: New York, Colorado, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Iowa are available at launch. Full 50-state coverage is on the roadmap — contact [email protected] for current state availability.

The entity_type field in the data object (e.g. LLC, CORP, LP) provides granular filtering within this subtype.

Example Signal

{
  "signal_id": "9944d8d8-e159-4ac5-98dc-34c765889d61",
  "signal_type": "new-business-formation",
  "signal_subtype": "newBusinessFormation",
  "detected_at": "2026-03-01T00:00:00Z",
  "association": "company",

  "company": {
    "name": "Zellerfeld Shoe Company Inc.",
    "domain": "zellerfeld.com",
    "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/company/zellerfeld-inc/",
    "industries": ["Retail Apparel And Fashion"],
    "employee_count_low": 26,
    "employee_count_high": 50,
    "description": "Zellerfeld is the only technology company that produces a whole 3D-printed shoe with the push of a button..."
  },

  "data": {
    "summary": "Zellerfeld Shoe Company Inc. filed as CORP_FOREIGN in CO on 2026-03-01.",
    "entity_type": "CORP_FOREIGN",
    "filing_number": "20261255801",
    "filing_date": "2026-03-01",
    "state_source": "CO",
    "jurisdiction": "DE",
    "city": "Austin",
    "zip_code": "78753-1398",
    "address": "905 West Howard Lane",
    "county": null,
    "status": "Good Standing",
    "registered_agent": null,
    "naics_code": null,
    "registered_email": null,
    "is_likely_shell": false,
    "match_confidence": "very_high",
    "officers": [
      {
        "name": "Cullan Kerner",
        "title": "Creative Community Lead",
        "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/in/cullan-kerner-25368812a",
        "match_confidence": "medium",
        "email": "[email protected]"
      }
    ],
    "enrichment_calls": {
      "serp": 2,
      "daxa": 1,
      "llm": 1
    }
  }
}

Note on company.domain: Brand-new entities typically don't have a website at time of filing. When Autobound can resolve a domain through enrichment, it will be populated. Expect null for ~65% of fresh formations.

Note on match_confidence: This is the domain resolution confidence tier based on SERP + LLM scoring. very_high (score 9-10), high (7-8), medium (5-6), low (3-4), very_low (1-2).

Signal Fields

Company Object

Data Object

Officers Array

The data.officers array contains LinkedIn-verified officers/owners associated with the entity. May contain multiple entries (up to 3). Null when no officers could be resolved.

Enrichment Calls

The data.enrichment_calls object provides transparency into API calls made during enrichment. Useful for debugging and cost tracking.

Delivery

• Refresh: Daily
• Format: JSONL + Parquet (Snappy compression)
• Bucket structure: gs://autobound-new-business-formation/{YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS}/output.jsonl and output.parquet
• Priority states: NY, CO, OR, PA, CT, IA (daily); remaining states available — contact [email protected]
• Coverage: All 50 US states on roadmap

Fill Rates (Current Coverage)