United States

How to use Kausate in United States — what you can call, which identifiers it uses, and which documents you can order

New to the API? Start with the jurisdictions overview, which explains how ordering, identifiers and documents work everywhere.

Operations

8 callable

Documents

2 orderable

Your own registry account

Not needed

Company data here comes directly from SEC EDGAR.

United States has 14 further jurisdictions, each with its own jurisdictionCode and page. A company registered with one of them does not appear under us: California (US), Colorado (US), Delaware (US), Florida (US), Georgia (US), Nevada (US), New Jersey (US), New York (US), North Carolina (US), Ohio (US), Pennsylvania (US), Texas (US), Washington (US) and Wyoming (US).

What you can call here

What each operation does is the same everywhere and is explained on the jurisdictions overview.

Operation	Status
Autocomplete	Live
Company search	Live
Company report Includes: Registered details, Legal representatives and Shareholders.	Live
Shareholder graph	Live
Financials	Live
List documents	Live
Retrieve a document	Live
Prefill	Live

How to search

Start with company search and jurisdictionCode: "us". Pass the name as companyName, a registration number as companyNumber, or both to narrow the result. Here companyNumber is read as cik.

Fields

To say exactly what you mean, send an advancedQuery instead. United States understands these fields:

Field	What it does
`name`	Registrant name to search for.
`ticker`	Exchange ticker to search for, e.g. AAPL.
`cik`	SEC Central Index Key. Accepted padded or unpadded, with or without the 'CIK' prefix (0000320193, 320193 or CIK0000320193).

Examples

{  "jurisdictionCode": "us",  "advancedQuery": {    "name": "Apple"  }}

United States also accepts ticker and cik.

Search by passing the registration number as companyNumber — it is matched against the schemes this register can search on, so you do not name the scheme yourself. Not every scheme below is searchable; the rest label the values returned in a company’s identifiers.

Identifier	Appears as	Format
SEC Central Index Key (CIK) US Securities and Exchange Commission Central Index Key — the permanent per-registrant key EDGAR assigns on first filing and never reissues. Stored zero-padded to ten digits; EDGAR itself also renders it unpadded in human-facing text, so a caller-supplied value is normalised before use.	`us_sec_cik`	`^[0-9]{10}$`
AZ Entity ID	`us_az_entity_id`	No fixed format
CT Business ID	`us_ct_business_id`	No fixed format
DC Entity ID	`us_dc_entity_id`	No fixed format
DC Initial File Number	`us_dc_initial_file_number`	No fixed format
IL Corporation File Number	`us_il_corporation_file_number`	No fixed format
IN Business ID	`us_in_business_id`	No fixed format
MA SOC Entity ID	`us_ma_soc_entity_id`	No fixed format
MD Department ID	`us_md_department_id`	No fixed format
ME Charter Number	`us_me_charter_number`	No fixed format
MI Entity ID	`us_mi_entity_id`	No fixed format
MN File Number	`us_mn_file_number`	No fixed format
MO Charter Number	`us_mo_charter_number`	No fixed format
NJ Business Entity ID	`us_nj_business_entity_id`	No fixed format
OR Registry Number	`us_or_registry_number`	No fixed format
UT Entity Number	`us_ut_entity_number`	No fixed format
VA Local Business License Account	`us_va_local_business_license_account`	No fixed format
VA SCC ID	`us_va_scc_id`	No fixed format
WA UBI Number	`us_wa_ubi_number`	No fixed format
WI DFI Entity ID	`us_wi_dfi_entity_id`	No fixed format

Identifier notes

When an individual appears in the data — for example a director or officer listed against a company, or a person named on a beneficial-ownership filing — they can carry their own SEC filer identifier (CIK), the same identifier type used for the company's own CIK. It identifies that person as a filer in their own right (useful for pulling their own filing history) and must never be used to look up a company record.

Documents you can order

Document	Order by	Status
SEC EDGAR Annual Report The registrant's most recent annual report as filed with the SEC — a 10-K for a domestic filer, a 20-F or 40-F for a foreign private issuer, or a 10-K/A amendment where that is the latest. Ordered without a document id: the filing is selected from the registrant's own filing index at request time, so a caller who wants a specific historical year should list the filings and order by id instead.	`annual_accounts` `financial_statements`	Live
SEC EDGAR Filing Retrieval of a single filing document from the EDGAR archives — 10-K and 10-Q reports, 8-K current reports, proxy statements, registration statements, ownership forms and their exhibits — delivered as the primary document the registrant filed.	A document ID from the list operation	Live

Documents with a shortcut are ordered directly by that name — for example annual_accounts. The rest are filings whose availability differs per company: call list documents first and order the ID it returns.

Local notes

Gotchas

Trap	What happens
No form, status or date	The company report never includes legal form, active/dissolved status, or incorporation date — this federal register doesn't carry them. Get those three facts from the relevant state-level registry instead.
Person identifiers are not companies	A person identifier (e.g. from a director or major-shareholder listing) used as a company identifier returns no search results, and a company report request fails with an error rather than the person's data.
Only filed directors and officers	The director/officer list only includes people filed as directors or officers on their own ownership filings. A large investor who crosses the disclosure threshold without holding either role appears instead among beneficial owners, with an ownership percentage attached.
Titles truncated at 30 characters	A director or officer's title is carried exactly as filed, including the source's own 30-character truncation — so a title can end mid-word (e.g. "EVP, Chief Human Resources Off"). There is also no standardized role code for these roles; it is always absent, because the standard code space assumes a legal form this federal register doesn't publish — rely on the plain-language normalized role instead.
No departure signal	Directors and officers have no departure signal: start dates appear only when on the original filing, and there's never an end date — a person just stops appearing. Treat the roster as "most recently confirmed," not "currently in office."
Stakes dated to the last filing	A beneficial owner's stake is dated to its last filing, not today — and that date lives only in the holder's free-text description, not a separate field. Stakes are only re-filed on material change, so a shown stake can be years old.
No UBO data at all	No UBO data exists, and there's no workaround: the federal beneficial-ownership register is restricted by law to government agencies and financial institutions. The public 5%-plus securities-ownership disclosures here are a reporting threshold, not a trace-through to ultimate natural-person owners — not a substitute for UBO data.