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Engineer verifies 160 US business data portals, finds access inconsistencies

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Brad Lucas, an engineer, has compiled a dataset of official U.S. business data portals after verifying all 160 sites himself. His findings reveal inconsistencies in data access, with many states requiring accounts for UCC searches, Delaware lacking public access, and California's license portal being incomplete. Lucas has packaged this verified data, including cost and login information, into datasets available on Gumroad, offering free samples for users to review. AI

IMPACT This dataset could streamline AI agent workflows for due diligence and lead verification by providing direct access to official business registries.

RANK_REASON The item describes a dataset of business data portals created by an individual engineer, which is a tool for AI agents.

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Engineer verifies 160 US business data portals, finds access inconsistencies

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · bradraylucas-eng ·

    I verified all 160 official U.S. business-data portals so your agent doesn't have to — here's what I found

    <p>Every agent workflow I build starts with the same wasted motion: the agent searches the web for the official registry, lands on an ad or an aggregator, and burns its run. So I verified the official portals myself — business entity search (50 states + DC + federal), UCC lien se…

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