City of Seattle

Seattle Business Licenses

Active business licenses issued by the City of Seattle, including business names and addresses from the city's licensing management system. Reflects businesses currently registered to operate within Seattle city limits.

Example records
Namelegal entityAlternate NamebrandFull NamepersonFull AddressaddressPhonephone numberObjectididentifierBuslic IDregistrationBuslic Location IDidentifierBuslic Year NumbertemporalBuslic Expiration DatetemporalBuslic Location TypeclassificationBuslic Status Typestatus
LEEX INCLEEX INCTAMI LEE5264 16TH AVE SW, SEATTLE, WA 98106206935321136432161174966156802202312/31/2023 12:00:00 AMHEADER QUARTERACTIVE
LEES & ASSOCIATES INCYOUNGS ACCOUNTING OFFICEYOUNG LEE407 BROAD ST, SEATTLE, WA 98109206441418136432158128500115616202312/31/2023 12:00:00 AMHEADER QUARTERACTIVE
LEESIDE II LLCROUGH & TUMBLE PUBJENNIFER BARNES5309 22ND AVE NW # A, SEATTLE, WA 98107-4198206889091636432160781769780538202512/31/2025 12:00:00 AMHEADER QUARTERACTIVE
Use cases

Vendor Address and License Verification

A procurement team onboarding a Seattle-based supplier cross-references the supplier's claimed business address and legal name against this dataset to confirm the entity holds an active city license and that the physical location on file matches what the vendor submitted in their onboarding documents.

NameFull AddressBuslic Status TypeBuslic Expiration DateBuslic ID

DBA Disambiguation for Entity Resolution

A fintech platform building a business identity graph ingests both the legal name and the trade name fields to detect cases where a single legal entity operates under multiple brands, or where the same brand name is shared by distinct legal entities, reducing false matches during KYB screening.

NameAlternate NameBuslic Business IDFull AddressBuslic Cityacctnum

Lapsed License Fraud Signal Detection

A commercial insurance underwriter reviewing a small business application checks whether the applicant's license expiration date has passed without renewal, treating an unlapsed license as a baseline legitimacy signal and flagging expired or missing records as elevated risk before binding a policy.

NameBuslic Status TypeBuslic Expiration DateBuslic OpendateFull Address
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