About the AI Yellow Pages

The AI Yellow Pages is the first AI-readable database of private businesses in America. We collect public business registration data from state and federal government sources, normalize it into a unified database, and serve it through APIs that any AI agent can query.

The Problem

There are over 33 million businesses in the United States. Only about 4,000 are public companies covered by SEC filings. The other 99.99% — the private companies — have their data trapped in 50 separate state registries, government SFTP servers, and CSV downloads that are invisible to AI.

When you ask an AI "what private businesses in Naples, Florida have been operating for 30 years?", it can't answer. The data exists. It's public. But it's not accessible.

The Silver Tsunami

52% of US employer businesses are owned by people 55 or older. 2.34 million Baby Boomer-owned businesses are approaching retirement. $10-14 trillion in private business assets will change hands in the next decade. Nearly two-thirds have no documented succession plan.

This is the largest ownership transition in American business history, and nobody has a searchable database of which businesses are ready.

What We Collect

SourceRecordsKey Data
Florida Division of Corporations12,725,25379 fields, 6 officers, EIN, filing dates
New York Department of State4,236,786CEO name, address, entity type, county
Colorado Secretary of State3,088,484Entity type, agent, jurisdiction
Virginia SCC1,531,215Officers, agent, 50 columns
Connecticut SoS1,291,523NAICS codes, diversity flags, 59 columns
Pennsylvania Dept of State2,352,240Business name, filing number, officer, creation date
Texas Comptroller3,361,187Franchise tax permit holders, org type, address
Oregon SoS573,503Registered agent, mailing address
IRS Exempt Organizations3,944,596Assets, revenue, NTEE codes, all 50 states
SAM.gov Federal Contractors889KUEI, CAGE code, NAICS, SBA certifications, all 50 states
FMCSA Motor Carrier Census4,429,563Fleet size, drivers, power units, officers

How It Works

We pull data from government bulk download systems across 8 states + federal and 3 federal agencies — SFTP, CSV, and open data portals. No scraping. No terms-of-service violations. Just public data, structured for AI.

Every record is normalized into a unified schema. Florida's 1,440-character fixed-width records and New York's CSV files become the same queryable format. FMCSA fleet data enriches entity records with scale and operational information.

The Cross-Reference

The real power is the combination. A 30-year-old Florida corporation where the president is also the registered agent, with a DOT carrier filing showing a shrinking fleet — that's a business doing $2-5M/year with a retiring founder and no succession plan. No single database tells you that.

Part of the Rootz Origin Family

Same architecture as Origin (SEC AI Registry, 125K+ AI hits) and Ship (Global Shipping Intelligence). Built by Rootz Corp.