Entity Search
Entity Search is not the business entity search office
Quick answer. Entity Search is not a government agency. We do not issue certificates, we do not file documents, and we are not the office that keeps the business entity search record.
What Entity Search will not sign
Entity Search is not a government index and cannot reveal an EIN that was never filed in public.
A DBA, assumed name, or fictitious name is the name a person or an entity uses in trade. In many states the DBA is filed with a county or in a separate state database, and it points back to the legal entity or to an individual. Searching only the DBA can miss the LLC that owns it. Searching only the LLC can miss the brand printed on the invoice.
Start with the legal entity, the one that can be sued and that signed the formation document. Marketing sites and “search marketing company” pages will not be in a corporations index under the slogan on an ad. Company search in the sense that matters here is the state detail page: type, status, agent, file number.