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Is your home address on your LLC's public filings?

A registered agent is only required to cover one of the address fields on your filing. The other four are published exactly as you submitted them.

California LLC filings expose five address fields. See what's public for your business — free.

The check currently reads California filings — other states aren't covered yet.

Your result appears after you enter an email address, and the full report is sent to that address. This tool is for checking your own business's exposure — searching by a person's name is not supported.

How founders find out ↓

How founders find out

This is the pattern we built the tool around. Jane is one founder, but the timeline is the same for most people who hired a registered agent and assumed that was the end of it.

  1. Day 0

    Day 0 — the postcard. Jane runs her design studio as an LLC from her apartment in San Francisco. Eight months ago she paid $125 a year for a registered agent, and she understood that as buying privacy for her home address. Then a postcard arrives from a company she has never heard of. It carries no government seal and no deadline — it simply says that even though she hired a registered agent, her home address is still in public records, and that she can confirm this herself by searching her LLC name together with “California Secretary of State.”

  2. +2 minutes

    +2 minutes — the search. She searches, and the first result is a PDF of her LLC’s state filing. Her name and her home address sit side by side on the manager line, and a data-aggregator site further down the results repeats both. The registered agent she pays for is doing exactly what it is supposed to do — but a registered agent is only required to cover one of the five address fields on a California filing, the agent’s own. The other four fields still show the home address she wrote in when she formed the company.

  3. +5 minutes

    +5 minutes — the check. She runs her company name through this tool, and it shows the same exposure the search did: her business is on the state registry and on an aggregator site. Then she pastes the address she wrote on her filing, and the tool reflects it back only in masked form — 1** M**** St — while telling her it appears to be residential, because a privacy company shouldn’t display the thing it protects. We check exposure, we don’t display it.

  4. +2 days

    +2 days — the fix. Two days later she files one amended Statement of Information online with the California Secretary of State. That single filing updates every exposed field at once, so the four fields that used to show her home address now show a commercial address instead.

  5. +3 weeks

    +3 weeks — the proof. Three weeks later, her first piece of business mail arrives as a scan on her dashboard instead of in her home mailbox. That scan is the confirmation she was looking for: mail now goes to the commercial address, and her current filing lists that address rather than her home.

Jane is a composite, not a customer.

What a California filing exposes

Every California LLC files a Statement of Information — Form LLC-12. The form has five address fields, and the whole document is a public record. This is what that looks like.

Statement of information

Form LLC-12 · California Secretary of State

Public record

Free to view online · indexed by search engines

  • Agent for service of process

    Acme Registered Agents, Inc.

    Covered by registered agent

  • Principal office street address

    123 Maple St, San Rafael, CA · your home

    Public

  • Mailing address

    123 Maple St, San Rafael, CA · your home

    Public

  • Manager or member name and address

    Jane Founder · 123 Maple St, San Rafael, CA

    Name and home address, published together

    Public

  • Chief executive officer address

    123 Maple St, San Rafael, CA · your home

    Public

A registered agent is only required to cover one of five address fields

Copies already filed stay in state archives, so a new address doesn't erase them — what it changes is every filing from here on, where a commercial address can stand in the four fields that would otherwise show your home.

What this check can and can't do

This check can't change what is already on file. Documents you filed in the past stay in state archives, and this tool doesn't remove them. What you can control is everything filed from here on: an amended filing can place a commercial address in the fields that currently show your home, and every future filing can use that address instead.

The check reads what is publicly visible at the moment you run it, so a filing made in the last few days may not have reached the public sources yet and can be missed. The results also never include the addresses themselves — the check tells you which public sources your business appears in, but we check exposure, we don't display it.

Common questions

How did you find me?

We read the same sources anyone can: the California Secretary of State's public business search, ordinary search-engine results, and the data-aggregator sites that republish state records. The check runs on your business name only — searching by a person's name is not supported, and we won't add it.

Can I delete past filings?

Realistically, no — filed documents stay in state archives, and removal generally requires a court order. What you can control is every filing going forward: an amended Statement of Information can place a commercial address in the fields that currently show your home, and aggregator sites pick up the new record when they recrawl.

Is it too late if my address is already exposed?

Documents already in the state archive stay there, and this tool doesn't change that. But someone looking your business up reaches search results and aggregator listings first, and those are rebuilt from whatever is currently on file — so the visible layer of exposure can still shrink. The order matters: an amended Statement of Information can take your home address out of the public fields only when there is another address to file in its place, which makes a commercial address the first step of the cleanup rather than just a way to prevent new exposure. Once the record is updated, aggregator sites pick up the new address as they recrawl, some accept requests to hide personal information, and Google accepts removal requests for search results that expose a personal home address.

Do you store what I search?

The check itself doesn't store the business name you type — our lookup cache and logs keep only an irreversible hash of it, and an address you paste for the residential check is read in memory and never stored. Storage starts when you ask for the emailed report: at that point the company name you checked, the state, and a summary of the verdict are saved together with your email address as a lead record, so we can send the report and follow up on it.

What does a registered agent actually cover?

A registered agent is only required to cover one of the five address fields on a California Statement of Information — the agent for service of process. The other four fields show whatever address was filed in them, and for most one-person companies that is a home address. This check looks at what's actually on the record, not at what any provider promises.

Do I need an anonymous LLC?

An LLC formed in a state that keeps owner names off its filings can help with name privacy, but the protection depends on where the company actually operates: doing business in California means registering there, which creates a California public record of its own. Address privacy works differently — in any state, you can file a commercial address instead of your home address, and that is the part this tool checks.

save office is a private company, not affiliated with any government agency. This check reads publicly available records only, for checking your own business.