CrawlDex
Preflight detail

sos.ca.gov

legal_admin.search_business_entity

healthy recipe://sos.ca.gov/legal_admin.search_business_entity/public-preflight-v1
Hold / Collect evidence first

Do not trust this route yet

The current evidence set is too thin for a confident agent decision.

Next: Run a canary or submit a trusted outcome before allowing an agent to attempt this unsupervised.
87AES
87% outcome rate
Evidence and trust

low trust

32%
basisBased on 3 evidence samples from catalog reporters.3
sourceSources: public web observation.
nextTreat this as directional until trusted canaries or operator reports arrive.
Confidence low 31%
Evidence 3 public web observation
Freshness 0d fresh
Blockers 0 none
Recipe

bizfile Online -> Search -> business entities by name/number with Exact/Begins/Contains filters; search and many records are free and no-login.

active
recipe://sos.ca.gov/legal_admin.search_business_entity/public-preflight-v1
  1. Open the documented public path for California Secretary of State: bizfile Online -> Search -> business entities by name/number with Exact/Begins/Contains filters; search and many records are free and no-login. Public source or help surface is visible.
  2. Check the listed blockers and policy constraints before entering account, payment, booking, or cancellation state. policy_parseable
  3. Stop before any irreversible or user-sensitive action and ask for explicit approval. User approval is captured before final action.
Human approval
Evidence is not strong enough for unsupervised execution. Collect more evidence or keep a human operator in the loop.
Do not cross
  • Note CA's dual standing: SOS status can read Active while FTB shows Suspended.
  • Cite bizfile as authoritative over third-party aggregators.
  • Provide informational workflow guidance only, not legal advice.
Success signals
  • Entity record with status and agent
  • Filed document images
Dimension scores

Why the route scores this way

reachability 87
navigability 87
task completability 87
transactability 87
recoverability 87
policy parseability 87
trust safety 87
efficiency 87
Issue flags

Known blockers

none
Policy notes
public pathbizfile Online -> Search -> business entities by name/number with Exact/Begins/Contains filters; search and many records are free and no-login.
task familylookup
seo angleCalifornia Business Search on bizfile: Active vs FTB-Suspended Explained
confidence notebizfile is the authoritative CA registry with free public search; verified entry points.
launch setfirst 300 public preflight
Recommended actions

Remediation queue

  • mediumagent
    Note CA's dual standing: SOS status can read Active while FTB shows Suspended. Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries.
Agent handoff

Copy this into an agent runbook

legal_admin.search_business_entity
Before attempting legal_admin.search_business_entity on sos.ca.gov, check CrawlDex. Current verdict: Collect evidence first. Run a canary or submit a trusted outcome before allowing an agent to attempt this unsupervised.
curl -sS -X POST /api/v1/preflight \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"site":"sos.ca.gov","task":"legal_admin.search_business_entity","agent_profile":{"stack":"browser-use","browser_runtime":"playwright"}}'
Preflight contract 
{
  "site": "sos.ca.gov",
  "task": "legal_admin.search_business_entity",
  "agent_profile": {
    "stack": "browser-use",
    "browser_runtime": "playwright"
  }
}