GA · Secretary of State

Verify any Georgia business in seconds.

Georgia SOS entity data + USDOT/FMCSA carrier records + OFAC SDN screening — all in one verification packet. Real-time pull from the official GA SOS, normalized into a clean credit-file PDF.

What you get with a Georgia lookup

  • Georgia SOS entity record — name, status, entity type, formation date, registered agent + address, principal office, and officers/managers where the state exposes them.
  • USDOT / FMCSA carrier verification — for trucking deals, we pull the carrier's authority status, MC#, fleet size, MCS-150 history, and BASIC scores. Auto-matched to the SOS legal name when applicable.
  • OFAC SDN screening — every search runs the company name against the Treasury sanctions list. Clear-result PDFs are signed.
  • DBA / Fictitious Name registries — surfaces the county/town clerk where this entity would file a DBA in Georgia, plus the statewide registry when one exists.
  • One merged PDF — cover sheet + SOS record + USDOT snapshot + supporting docs, all in a credit-file-ready packet.

How Georgia files business entities

Georgia's Corporations Division migrated to an e-corp portal at ecorp.sos.ga.gov in 2021, replacing the legacy paper-and-fax system. The new platform supports online filing for nearly every entity action — formation, annual registration, dissolution.

Official portal: Georgia Corporations Division (Secretary of State) ↗

How DBAs work in Georgia

Georgia uses a mixed model: Trade Names file at the county Superior Court Clerk's office, while entity-level filings sit with the Secretary of State. There is no statewide Trade Name registry, so verifying an applicant's DBA generally requires querying the specific county where they operate.

Credit-underwriting gotchas in Georgia

Georgia LLCs owe a $50 annual registration fee due April 1. The Corporations Division applies an automatic $25 late fee after the deadline; entities that don't file for 2 consecutive years are administratively dissolved. The portal also still asks for a 'CEO' field on LLC annual registrations even though LLCs don't formally have CEOs — a retrofit from the legacy corporate form that confuses some filers.

Practical Georgia reference

Filing fees: $100 online ($110 paper) LLC formation fee + $50 annual registration (due April 1)

Officer visibility: Officers, registered agents, and managers are visible on the public e-corp detail page. Filed documents are downloadable as PDFs at no charge.

Georgia county DBA registries

We've indexed 16 Georgia county clerk DBA portals with deep-links straight to each one's search form — no landing pages, no clicking around. Members can paste any Georgia address and we'll tell them exactly which county clerk to search.

Open the Georgia county registry →

⚠ Georgia is a manual-assist state (for now)

Georgia's SOS portal has bot protection we haven't fully re-cracked yet, so we don't auto-scrape it today. We open the official GA portal in a new tab on every search and merge the document you download into the final verification file. Everything else (USDOT, OFAC, county DBA lookup) still runs automatically.

Verify a Georgia business now

Paste a company name above — your first three lookups are free. No card, no signup, just real Georgia SOS data in seconds.

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