Verify any Michigan business in seconds.
Michigan SOS entity data + USDOT/FMCSA carrier records + OFAC SDN screening — all in one verification packet. Real-time pull from the official MI SOS, normalized into a clean credit-file PDF.
What you get with a Michigan lookup
- Michigan 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 Michigan, 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 Michigan files business entities
Michigan's Corporations, Securities, and Commercial Licensing Bureau sits inside LARA — the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs — rather than under a Secretary of State agency. LARA exposes a public JSON search API, which makes Michigan one of the easiest states for programmatic verification.
Official portal: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) ↗
How DBAs work in Michigan
Michigan files Assumed Names at the county clerk in the county where the business is located. Each of Michigan's 83 counties handles its own filings; the Upper Peninsula counties sometimes still accept paper-only DBAs. The LARA portal covers entity-level Assumed Name Certificates filed by corporations and LLCs.
Credit-underwriting gotchas in Michigan
Michigan LLCs pay just $25 annually — one of the lowest annual fees in the country. The annual report (called an Annual Statement) is due February 15. Missing the Annual Statement leads to 'Not in Good Standing' status and eventual dissolution after 2 years. Reinstating a dissolved Michigan LLC requires paying all back fees plus a $50 reinstatement charge.
Practical Michigan reference
Filing fees: $50 LLC formation fee + $25 annual statement (due February 15)
Officer visibility: Officers, members, and resident agents are visible on the public CorpSummary detail page. The JSON API returns entity ID, status, and filing date in a single call.
Michigan county DBA registries
We've indexed 14 Michigan county clerk DBA portals with deep-links straight to each one's search form — no landing pages, no clicking around. Members can paste any Michigan address and we'll tell them exactly which county clerk to search.
Open the Michigan county registry →⚠ Michigan is a manual-assist state (for now)
Michigan'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 MI 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 Michigan business now
Paste a company name above — your first three lookups are free. No card, no signup, just real Michigan SOS data in seconds.
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