Working papers
The research behind the record
Every value on this site started as a research document. There are 21 of them in the library, totalling 1,819,879 bytes across 6 programmes. 9 are neutral throughout and could be published as they stand; 1 carry neutral findings inside consuming-project framing; and 11 reference internal systems, operational data or named staff and are indexed here by subject only, with their text withheld permanently.
21Research documents6 programmes
9Neutral throughoutpublishable as they stand
1Mixedneutral findings, internal framing
11Withheldindexed by subject only
1,819,879Bytes of working paper
Why an index of documents you cannot read is worth publishing
Two reasons. First, it is the audit trail: when a fee on this site is questioned, the answer is a specific document with a date, and saying which document exists is most of the answer. Second, it is the honest shape of the work. A reference site that presents itself as having sprung fully formed from official sources is misrepresenting how the sausage is made. The record was assembled by an operating business, some of the research carries that business's fingerprints, and the correct response is to publish the subject matter, withhold the text, and say which is which - not to quietly pretend the withheld half does not exist.
Cross-state comparisons
Analyses that only exist because they read across every jurisdiction at once.
| Document | What it establishes | Dated | Bytes | Public? | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compliance-calendar due-date validation v1.0 | An empirical check of generated compliance due dates against the statutory rule for each jurisdiction, run over a live entity population in the top filing states. Establishes which due-date rules are computable from statute and which are not. | 2026-07-18 | 19,144 | Not published | Carries internal system references, operational data or named staff. Indexed by subject only; the text is never published. |
| Publication requirements, configuration specification v1.0 | The fullest treatment of newspaper-publication duties in the repository: which states impose one, on which entity types, in which newspapers, over what period, with what proof-of-publication filing and what happens on failure. The source behind the publication analysis page. | 2026-07-17 | 39,704 | Not published | Carries internal system references, operational data or named staff. Indexed by subject only; the text is never published. |
| Statutory-agent acceptance notices, one state | How one state's commission notifies and confirms a statutory-agent appointment, and the notice sequence it sends. | - | 5,858 | Not published | Carries internal system references, operational data or named staff. Indexed by subject only; the text is never published. |
| 51-jurisdiction state-rules research programme, summary v1.0 | A programme-level summary of the dissolution, reinstatement and retention rules research across all 51 filing jurisdictions. | 2026-07-06 | 33,336 | Not published | Carries internal system references, operational data or named staff. Indexed by subject only; the text is never published. |
| Puerto Rico Act 60 incentives, verified fact base | A source-checked fact base on the Puerto Rico Act 60 export-services and individual resident incentives: eligibility, the decree mechanics, the annual filing and donation obligations, and an explicit unverified section that was excluded from publication. The only substantial territory-specific research in the repository. | - | 18,014 | Verified | Neutral. Subject matter and findings are jurisdiction facts. |
| DBA regime table, all 51 jurisdictions | The regime classification behind the DBA analysis page, with a primary citation per jurisdiction and a confidence grade. Uses a finer classification than the shipped dataset, splitting voluntary registration and entity-split regimes out of the state and county buckets. | - | 4,057 | Verified | Neutral. Subject matter and findings are jurisdiction facts. |
| Compliance-calendar validation findings, tabular | The per-jurisdiction result table behind the due-date validation. | - | 21,996 | Not published | Carries internal system references, operational data or named staff. Indexed by subject only; the text is never published. |
Fee-change research
One document per enacted change, verified from the act text and the agency's own schedule. These feed the forward calendar.
| Document | What it establishes | Dated | Bytes | Public? | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware HB 400 fee and tax changes v1.0 | Line-by-line research on Delaware House Bill 400: which filing fees and which annual taxes move, by how much, and on what date each becomes payable. The source of the alternative-entity annual tax change on the forward calendar. | 2026-07-31 | 7,885 | Pending review | Mixed. Neutral findings surrounded by consuming-project framing; the neutral half is extractable, the document is not. |
| Louisiana Act 921, fee increases effective 1 October 2026 v1.0 | Verified entirely from official sources: the enrolled act text, the filing agency's own published fee schedule for the new regime, and the bill history. Documents the trap where the new statutory fee equals the old remitted amount, so a naive comparison sees no change. | 2026-08-03 | 8,546 | Verified | Neutral. Subject matter and findings are jurisdiction facts. |
| Wyoming fee schedule effective 1 July 2026, premise correction v1.0 | A line-by-line comparison of the new schedule against the one immediately preceding it, establishing that base filing fees did not move at all and that the only real changes are two expedite tiers. A negative finding that corrected the brief it was commissioned under. | 2026-08-03 | 8,475 | Verified | Neutral. Subject matter and findings are jurisdiction facts. |
Good-standing map
Evidence behind the status decoder.
| Document | What it establishes | Dated | Bytes | Public? | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good-standing map, full-book drift report v1.0 | A sweep of an entire entity book against the good-standing map, measuring how many records the map's verdicts would change and in which direction. The evidence base for ratifying the decoder. | 2026-07-06 | 5,570 | Not published | Carries internal system references, operational data or named staff. Indexed by subject only; the text is never published. |
Direct agency outreach
Written questions put to filing agencies and what came back. Primary source material.
| Document | What it establishes | Dated | Bytes | Public? | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filing-agency replies harvest v1.0 | Substantive answers received directly from state filing agencies to written questions, including several that contradict the agency's own published forms. Primary-source material of a kind that exists nowhere else in the repository. | 2026-07-15 | 22,707 | Not published | Carries internal system references, operational data or named staff. Indexed by subject only; the text is never published. |
| State outreach sheet v1.0 | The question set put to each filing agency, merged with the phone-verification backlog: statute-versus-form conflicts, unpublished processing times, and fee components that do not reconcile against the statutory formula. | 2026-07-13 | 26,885 | Not published | Carries internal system references, operational data or named staff. Indexed by subject only; the text is never published. |
| Outreach programme, results summary | What came back from the outreach wave and what stayed open: response rate, answers received, and the questions still unresolved. | 2026-07-15 | 8,629 | Not published | Carries internal system references, operational data or named staff. Indexed by subject only; the text is never published. |
Statute audits
Published claims checked against captured official statutory text, claim by claim, with verbatim quotations.
| Document | What it establishes | Dated | Bytes | Public? | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proposed corrections from the statute audit | The corrections the audit produced, including a time-sensitive amendment barring a registered agent from performing its duties solely through a virtual office or mail forwarding service. Every item is proposed, none is applied. | - | 4,517 | Verified | Neutral. Subject matter and findings are jurisdiction facts. |
| Statute verification, jurisdictions A to M | Every published claim about appointment and agent requirements in the A to M jurisdictions, audited against the captured official statutory text, with a verdict per claim and a verbatim supporting quotation. The largest single verification document in the repository. | - | 81,777 | Verified | Neutral. Subject matter and findings are jurisdiction facts. |
| Statute verification, jurisdictions N to Z | The second half of the audit, same method, covering 24 jurisdictions and 80 verbatim citations. | - | 56,419 | Verified | Neutral. Subject matter and findings are jurisdiction facts. |
| Structured citations, A to M | The machine-readable citation set backing the A to M audit. | - | 62,649 | Verified | Neutral. Subject matter and findings are jurisdiction facts. |
| Structured citations, N to Z | The machine-readable citation set backing the N to Z audit. | - | 66,299 | Verified | Neutral. Subject matter and findings are jurisdiction facts. |
Verification backlog
The open questions. What the record does not know, written down.
| Document | What it establishes | Dated | Bytes | Public? | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phone-verification backlog, by state v1.0 | Every open question in the research programme that cannot be answered from a published source, organised by state with the exact question to ask. The honest inventory of what the record does not know. | 2026-07-07 | 649,679 | Not published | Carries internal system references, operational data or named staff. Indexed by subject only; the text is never published. |
| Phone-verification backlog, machine readable | The structured companion to the backlog document. | - | 667,733 | Not published | Carries internal system references, operational data or named staff. Indexed by subject only; the text is never published. |
Provenance - research libraryPending review
The documents themselves are working papers, not records. They are indexed here, never quoted. Values that came out of them live in the datasets, where they carry their own citations and their own review status.
- Documents
- 21 files across 6 programme directories
- Manifests
- each directory carries a manifest recording the origin of every file and a content hash verified at copy time
- Neutrality filter
- 9 public, 1 mixed, 11 withheld
- Dated
- 2026-06-26 through 2026-08-03
Descriptions on this page were written after reading each document. They describe what the document establishes; they do not quote it.