Business reports

Business reports provide detailed information about a specific Canadian business, including directors, officers, shareholders, addresses, good standing status, and more. Reports are fetched directly from the provincial or federal registry.

How it works

Run a search to find the business and get its jurisdiction and registration number
Submit a report request with those details
The API fetches a comprehensive report from the registry
The report is stored and can be downloaded as a PDF

Reports typically take 1-4 minutes to fetch. The registry lookup is the bottleneck.

Request

curl -X POST https://api.getcurrent.ca/v1/business-reports \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer cur_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "jurisdiction": "ON",
    "registrationNumber": "1234567",
    "name": "Example Corp"
  }'

Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
`jurisdiction`	string	Yes	Canadian jurisdiction code or full name (e.g. “ON”, “Ontario”, “Federal”)
`registrationNumber`	string	Yes	Registration number from a search result
`name`	string	Yes	Full legal name of the business
`searchId`	string	No	UUID of a previous `/search` result to link this report to your search history

Jurisdictions

Accepts codes or full names: AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT, FED

Response

The response includes the report data with people, addresses, and business details.

{
  "meta": {
    "searchId": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "searchedAt": "2026-02-21T12:00:00.000Z",
    "searchedBy": "you@example.com",
    "name": "Example Corp",
    "jurisdiction": "ON",
    "registrationNumber": "1234567",
    "status": "completed",
    "duration": 148500
  },
  "report": {
    "legalName": { "name": "Example Corp", "matchScore": 1 },
    "registrationNumbers": [{ "label": "Ontario Corporation Number", "value": "1234567" }],
    "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
    "status": "Active",
    "addresses": [ ... ],
    "people": [ ... ],
    "details": {
      "goodStanding": true,
      "nameHistory": [ ... ],
      "naicsClassification": [ ... ]
    },
    "reportUrl": "https://...",
    "reportUrlExpiresAt": "2031-02-21T12:00:00.000Z"
  }
}

Report fields

Field	Description
`report.details.goodStanding`	Whether the business is in good standing (boolean or null)
`report.people`	Directors, officers, and shareholders with addresses
`report.details.nameHistory`	Previous legal names (array)
`report.details.naicsClassification`	Industry classifications (array)
`report.reportUrl`	Signed URL to download the report PDF (see below)
`report.reportUrlExpiresAt`	Expiry timestamp of `reportUrl`

Downloading the PDF

After a report is complete, you can download it as a PDF:

curl -L "https://api.getcurrent.ca/v1/business-reports/document?searchId=UUID&registrationNumber=1234567" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer cur_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx" \
  -o report.pdf

This returns a 302 redirect to a signed URL for the PDF document. Use -L (follow redirects) with cURL.

Parameter	Required	Description
`searchId`	Yes	Search ID from the report
`registrationNumber`	Yes	Registration number
`businessName`	No	Business name (for lookup)

Typical workflow

import requests
import time

API_KEY = "cur_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}

# 1. Search for the business
search = requests.post(
    "https://api.getcurrent.ca/v1/search",
    headers=HEADERS,
    json={"name": "Example Corp"},
).json()

# 2. Get jurisdiction and registration number from results
biz = search["businesses"][0]
search_id = search["meta"]["searchId"]

# 3. Fetch the full report
report = requests.post(
    "https://api.getcurrent.ca/v1/business-reports",
    headers=HEADERS,
    json={
        "jurisdiction": biz["jurisdiction"],
        "registrationNumber": biz["registrationNumbers"][0]["value"],
        "name": biz["legalName"]["name"],
        "searchId": search_id,
    },
).json()

print(f"Status: {report['meta']['status']}")
print(f"Good standing: {report['report']['details'].get('goodStanding')}")

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How it works

Request

Parameters

Jurisdictions

Response

Report fields

Downloading the PDF

Typical workflow

​How it works

​Request

​Parameters

​Jurisdictions

​Response

​Report fields

​Downloading the PDF

​Typical workflow

How it works

Request

Parameters

Jurisdictions

Response

Report fields

Downloading the PDF

Typical workflow