Government agencies produce the most detailed records about how businesses operate in America. Registrations, inspections, compliance filings, licenses, liens, permits. Thousands of agencies at every level of government, and no two of them organize it the same way.
None of it is connected. A restaurant's health inspection in New York looks nothing like its food safety record in Chicago, which looks nothing like its liquor license in Maryland. All three describe the same business.
We’ve spent over a decade building our business identity graph: entity resolution, verified identities, card revenue signals. But thousands of government databases hold information that structured integration can’t reach. There are too many formats to map one by one. We needed a different approach.
That’s why we built Gov Archive.
Every Gov Archive search is anchored in verified business identity: the same graph that powers our KYB and compliance products. The system knows which business it’s looking for: name variations, legal entities, DBAs, all of it. A text search returns mentions. Gov Archive returns matched records.
Inside we have billions of records across thousands of datasets, and the collection keeps growing. OSHA citations, EPA compliance, cannabis licensing, UCC filings, building permits, government contracts, and thousands more. Each source refreshes on its own cadence, and the system tracks how current each one is.
See it for yourself: at enigma.com/govarchive you can profile datasets from FDIC bank failures to EPA toxic releases to state cannabis licenses. Browse by agency, state, or risk domain.
The system resolves a business to a verified entity, expands to every known name variation, then searches across billions of government records. The results return as a single profile, deduplicated across jurisdictions. Every data point traces to the specific agency, dataset, and filing it came from.
A single query can return health inspections across multiple cities, EPA enforcement records, OSHA citations, cannabis licenses linking LLCs to trade names, building permits, UCC filings, government contract spending.
Research that once meant navigating dozens of agency portals, covering only the sources you knew to check, now returns a single deduplicated profile in seconds, with every data point linked to the original filing.
An EIN discovered in a state incentive filing or an address confirmed through a permit record flows back into the identity graph as verified data.
The system cuts deep into the bedrock datasets that matter for enhanced due diligence: OSHA violations, EPA compliance, active litigation, licensing status across jurisdictions. These are signals standard commercial sources don't carry, returned fully cited.
For compliance teams: when automated KYB checks run out of data to act on, Gov Archive surfaces the evidence that closes cases faster. One example: a major payroll platform needed to verify cannabis dispensaries across state-by-state licensing regimes. The records didn't exist in any commercial database, so we sourced licenses from every state and made them queryable in weeks.
Gov Archive is also available as an MCP server. That means AI agents can query it directly, resolving the entity, searching the archive, and returning a sourced profile as a native step in any MCP-compatible compliance or due diligence workflow.
The collection keeps growing as our system gets better at handling unfamiliar formats. New sources, new jurisdictions, new record types, all interconnected when they enter the archive.
Government records are the ground truth for what businesses actually do. Not what they report. Not what they claim. For decades, that ground truth was scattered across incompatible systems with no unified way to search it. The archive is our answer to that. It grows every day, and so does the landscape of records it can surface.