Extracting data from articles of incorporation
Each state sets its own requirements, so articles of incorporation range from a one-page state form to a charter drafted by counsel. Delaware calls the filing a certificate of incorporation. Investors and acquirers collect one for every entity in a corporate group, as certified state copies or as scans in a data room.
Diligence needs the legal name, the state filing number, the registered agent and each authorized share class with its par value. Deal counsel reconciles the share counts against the capitalization table, confirming that issued stock stays within what the charter authorizes.
What makes articles of incorporation hard
Every state sets its own format
One state generates articles from an online questionnaire, while a Delaware certificate of incorporation is drafted by counsel and can run to pages of prose.
Capital terms are written as articles
Share classes and par values sit in a numbered article, and a venture-backed charter can spend pages on preferred stock liquidation and conversion terms.
Amendments change the current terms
A corporation amends its articles to add shares or change its name, so the current terms can span the original filing and certificates of amendment.
Parse, extract, verify
Parse
Parse turns the document into reading-order Markdown and a hierarchy of blocks (text, tables, figures), and grounds each block to its exact location on the page.
Extract
You define the fields in a JSON schema, and Extract returns their values in a consistent, structured format, each linked back to where it appears in the Markdown.
Verify
Each value links back to where it appears, down to the character range in the Markdown, and the page and bounding box in the source document, so every result can be verified.
One articles of incorporation, end to end
About this document: Profit corporation articles of incorporation for Top Tier Sports (USA) Inc., generated and filed by the Wyoming Secretary of State, four portrait pages. The company filed them with the SEC as an exhibit to a crowdfunding offering statement. Page 1 carries the articles, page 2 the filer's checkbox attestations and page 3 the registered agent's consent. Page 4 is the state's certificate of incorporation. Page 1 is featured.
Processing objective: The objective is to record what the state filed: the number it assigned, the corporation it formed and the agent that accepts service. The capital it may issue sits in two share counts beside their par values, with common stock authorized as "Unlimited".
Demonstration fields: Original ID, Corporation name, Registered agent, Common shares authorized, Preferred shares authorized
The document
4 of 4 pages
Page 1shown below
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Where each value came from
filing.filing_id
{
"value": "2024-001549080",
"page": 1,
"range": {
"end": 229,
"start": 202
},
"box": {
"xmin": 0.52629,
"ymin": 0.08269,
"xmax": 0.74926,
"ymax": 0.0988
}
}corporation_name
{
"value": "Top Tier Sports (USA) Inc.",
"page": 1,
"range": {
"end": 346,
"start": 320
},
"box": {
"xmin": 0.11057,
"ymin": 0.23869,
"xmax": 0.30984,
"ymax": 0.25582
}
}registered_agent.name
{
"value": "Cloud Peak Law, LLC",
"page": 1,
"range": {
"end": 454,
"start": 435
},
"box": {
"xmin": 0.11043,
"ymin": 0.29289,
"xmax": 0.27565,
"ymax": 0.30886
}
}authorized_shares[0].number_of_shares
{
"value": "Unlimited",
"page": 1,
"range": {
"end": 866,
"start": 832
},
"box": {
"xmin": 0.11029,
"ymin": 0.50026,
"xmax": 0.412,
"ymax": 0.51614
}
}authorized_shares[1].number_of_shares
{
"value": "110,000",
"page": 1,
"range": {
"end": 902,
"start": 867
},
"box": {
"xmin": 0.11007,
"ymin": 0.51833,
"xmax": 0.40343,
"ymax": 0.53472
}
}How to try it yourself
Everything on this page is reproducible. The sample, its schema, and the Parse and Extract API outputs are published. You can repeat the same two calls from whichever surface you already build on.
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