Give Your AI Agent Access to Real US Business Data via MCP

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If you're building AI agents with Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible tool, you can give them access to real Secretary of State business records, building permits, and corporate filings with a single URL.

No API keys to manage. No scraping infrastructure to maintain. Just plug in the MCP server URL and your agent can query live government databases conversationally.

Setup (30 seconds)

Add this to your MCP configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-business-data": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/mcp?tools=pink_comic/us-business-entity-search,pink_comic/building-permits-construction-leads,pink_comic/secretary-of-state-search"
    }
  }
}

That's it. Your agent now has access to:

Business entity records from 18 state Secretary of State databases
Building permits from 47+ US cities
Florida, Texas, California deep business search

What Your Agent Can Do

Once connected, you can ask your AI assistant things like:

"Look up Acme Corp in Texas and Florida"
"Find all new construction permits in Chicago from last month"
"Check if this LLC is active in Colorado"
"Find the registered agent for XYZ Holdings in Georgia"

The agent translates your natural language query into structured API calls and returns formatted results.

How It Works

The MCP server connects to Apify actors that query government databases in real-time. Each query costs fractions of a cent ($0.002/result). You need an Apify account with credits (free tier includes $5).

Available Tools

Tool	Coverage	Use Case
us-business-entity-search	18 states	KYC, compliance, sales leads
building-permits-construction-leads	47+ cities	Construction leads, real estate
sunbiz-florida-business-leads	Florida	Deep FL Sunbiz data
texas-business-leads	Texas	TX SOSDirect filings
secretary-of-state-search	Multi-state	Batch SOS lookups

Why MCP?

Traditional API integration requires writing code, managing auth, parsing responses, and handling errors. MCP lets your AI agent handle all of that automatically. You just ask questions in plain English.

This is particularly useful for:

Due diligence workflows where you need to verify multiple entities quickly
Lead qualification where you want to check if a prospect's business is real and active
Compliance checks that need to be documented with source URLs