Executive Summary

Many fintechs, marketplaces, banks, payroll providers, and compliance vendors still struggle to verify business entities across multiple state registries because public registries are heterogeneous, inconsistent, and often only accessible via brittle manual lookups or fragile screen-scraping. That creates onboarding friction, false positives/negatives, slower revenue conversion, and regulatory exposure under expanding AML/KYB obligations. You could build a developer-first programmatic multi-state business-entity verification service that ingests and normalizes heterogeneous registry outputs into a single API with confidence scores, historical snapshots, real-time checks, and consumption-based pricing. Operationally this would combine resilient headless-browser scraping, direct API integrations where available, and hybrid fallbacks (manual review or registry partnerships) to maintain coverage and uptime. The addressable market is roughly $1.5B (30,000 potential B2B buyers at ~$50K ACV), the market score is 86/100 and revenue potential 82/100, and regulatory tailwinds plus the shift to lean API-first vendors make demand immediate. You can differentiate by engineering reliability, automated schema mapping, granular audit trails, and a frictionless developer experience that reduces time-to-value versus incumbent KYB vendors. Be upfront that ongoing maintenance, anti-DRM/legal risk, and medium competition are real challenges, so prioritize niche jurisdictions and high-ROI integrations early to build defensibility.

Market Opportunity

Programmatic multi-state business-entity verification using public registries targets a $1.5B = 30,000 potential B2B buyers (fintechs, marketplaces, banks, payroll providers, compliance vendors) × $50K ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 15% CAGR (source: identity verification and KYB market growth estimates, Grand View Research / MarketsandMarkets summaries).

Key trends driving demand: Regulatory pressure and AML/KYB requirements are expanding verification needs — this increases demand for reliable business-entity checks that integrate into onboarding flows.; Developer-first APIs and consumption pricing are displacing heavyweight enterprise contracts for many fintech and marketplace customers, creating room for lean challengers.; Improvements in headless browsing, serverless architectures, and anti-DRM scraping tooling make automated access to heterogeneous public registries more reliable and cheaper to operate.; Growing cost sensitivity among startups and mid-market platforms creates demand for lower-cost alternatives to legacy data vendors..

Key competitors include OpenCorporates, Clearbit (company enrichment), Dun & Bradstreet (D&B).

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