Verify any Tennessee business in seconds.
Tennessee SOS entity data + USDOT/FMCSA carrier records + OFAC SDN screening — all in one verification packet. Real-time pull from the official TN SOS, normalized into a clean credit-file PDF.
What you get with a Tennessee lookup
- Tennessee 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 Tennessee, 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 Tennessee files business entities
Tennessee's SOS portal at tnbear.tn.gov has one of the more memorable URLs in the country — 'bear' is short for 'Business Entity Annual Report.' The portal is ASP.NET fronted by AWS WAF, blocking data-center traffic; residential routing is required for any programmatic access.
Official portal: Tennessee Secretary of State (TNBear) ↗
How DBAs work in Tennessee
Tennessee files Assumed Names at the county Register of Deeds (sometimes the county clerk, depending on county). Tennessee was also the first state to allow LLCs to elect 'series' status, letting one parent LLC hold multiple sub-entities with separate liability shields — series elections complicate ownership graphs and need careful unwinding.
Credit-underwriting gotchas in Tennessee
Tennessee LLCs face a minimum $300 annual report fee that SCALES with the number of LLC members — $300 for the first 6 members, plus $50 per additional member up to a $3,000 maximum. This is the only state with a member-count-based annual fee. Missed reports trigger 'Administratively Dissolved' status after the second consecutive missed filing. Tennessee also has a franchise-and-excise tax administered by the Department of Revenue, billed separately.
Practical Tennessee reference
Filing fees: $300 LLC formation fee minimum (scales with member count) + $300 annual report minimum (also scales)
Officer visibility: Officers, members, and registered agents are visible on the public detail page after the WAF gate clears. Filed documents are downloadable as PDFs.
Tennessee county DBA registries
We've indexed 11 Tennessee county clerk DBA portals with deep-links straight to each one's search form — no landing pages, no clicking around. Members can paste any Tennessee address and we'll tell them exactly which county clerk to search.
Open the Tennessee county registry →⚠ Tennessee is a manual-assist state (for now)
Tennessee'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 TN 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 Tennessee business now
Paste a company name above — your first three lookups are free. No card, no signup, just real Tennessee SOS data in seconds.
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