# Secretary of State Business Entity Search (KYB)

A lead generation tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/whetstonetools/secretary-of-state-business-search

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `companyName` (string, required): Company name
- `states` (array): States to search (e.g. ["NY","CO"])
- `exactMatch` (boolean): Exact name match
- `maxResultsPerState` (integer): Max results per state (e.g. 25)

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=Secretary%20of%20State%20Business%20Entity%20Search%20(KYB) with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "Secretary of State Business Entity Search (KYB)"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md