VerifySOS is a 50-state business-verification tool for credit and underwriting in trucking and commercial finance. One search merges Secretary of State registration, FMCSA/USDOT authority, OFAC sanctions, UCC liens, ownership, and county DBA filings into a single PDF packet.

How do I look up a business across all 50 states?

Enter the company name and its 2-letter state code (or a USDOT number) on verifysos.com. It searches the Secretary of State and FMCSA SAFER side by side, screens OFAC, and generates a verification packet PDF.

How much does VerifySOS cost?

There is a free tier, a Starter plan at $14.99/month (about 250 searches), and a Pro plan at $25/month with unlimited searches plus API access, UCC, and DBA.

Does VerifySOS show business ownership and officers?

Yes. Where a state publishes officers, members, or managers in its free public records, VerifySOS pulls them into the packet, separate from the registered agent, which is not the owner.

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Nebraska business entity search — how to look up an LLC and find the owner

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If you are underwriting a Nebraska entity, the Secretary of State business search confirms that the company is real and shows you who is listed to run it. That is the easy part. The harder part is reading the record correctly: knowing which field is the owner, what an active status really buys you, and what you still have to pull from other systems before you fund.

What the Nebraska record shows

A Nebraska business search returns the entity name, type, formation date, status, registered agent, and the officer or member names on file. From that you can confirm the entity exists, who filed it, when, and whether it is currently active. For most credit work, that is the spine of the verification.

What the record gives you is existence and standing. What it does not give you is the financial picture. The corporate record will not show you UCC liens, tax liens, or judgments. Those live in separate systems, and you pull them on their own. Beneficial-ownership disclosures, where they exist, are also separate and are not required for every entity type. Read the Secretary of State record for what it is: confirmation of the entity and its listed principals, not a full risk profile.

The registered agent is not the owner

The agent is listed plainly, and it is the field underwriters most often mistake for ownership. The registered agent receives legal mail. It is frequently a commercial registered-agent service or a law firm, not the person who signs for the debt. Record the agent as the owner and you have verified a mailbox.

The owners are in the officer or member list. Read that section. If the agent address and the principal address match, the agent may genuinely be the owner; if the agent is a named service, that cell tells you nothing about who controls the entity. The distinction is the whole point of the lookup.

What “active” means, and what it does not

An active Nebraska status means the entity has filed its required paperwork and has not been dissolved or revoked. It does not mean the company is solvent, lien-free, or that ownership is unchanged since formation. An entity that passes the Nebraska lookup can still be a shell, a fraud, or months from delinquency. Status is a gate, not a grade. Use it to confirm the entity is real and standing, then do the rest of the underwrite.

What lives outside the registry

The business registry is the corporate record. UCC filings, which tell you whether the entity or its equipment is already pledged, are a separate search and matter on any collateral deal. Tax liens and judgments are their own records. If the Nebraska company runs trucks, the corporate record carries no safety or authority data; you pull the USDOT/FMCSA snapshot separately to confirm the MC number, operating authority, safety rating, and inspection history. Cross-reference on the USDOT number, not the company name, since the two will not always match exactly.

How an underwriter should read it

Confirm status first. Confirm formation date against the application, and treat a brand-new entity attached to an old operating history as a flag worth a second look. Find the real owners in the officer or member list, not the agent line. Then layer in UCC, and for a carrier, the full FMCSA snapshot. Screen the principals against OFAC where the deal size or a wire transfer warrants it; for most small entities it is a quick clear, and it closes a class of risk for two minutes of work.

Bottom line

Nebraska records confirm the entity and its listed principals cleanly. The two things that bite are mistaking the registered agent for the owner and treating an active status as a finished underwrite. Find the real owners, run UCC and FMCSA separately, and read status as a gate. Doing one Nebraska entity by hand is quick. Doing them at volume, across multiple states, one record at a time, is where a single consolidated report that arrives already matched and complete saves the hours.