Signal feeds
A registration tells you a business exists. It does not tell you the business is ready to buy anything. The real events happen weeks or months later, when it hires its first employee, pulls a license, or finances equipment. We watch every Oregon business across the public records where those events show up, and we keep them as separate feeds, because a lien and a hire are not the same lead for the same person.
Counts below are from our own store, current through September 20, 2026. Three of the feeds below have only one month of filings behind them, because the state publishes liens a month at a time and does not backfill, so treat the monthly total as approximate until they have run longer.
What we track
Ordered by how often each one fires. The rate is the average per month over the 12 months from September 2025, counted only across the months that source published.
Got employees
Active workers' comp employers
The business turns up carrying workers' compensation coverage. In Oregon you carry it once you have staff, so this is the point a registration became a payroll. The same record brings a headcount band, an NAICS industry code, and the name of the insurer.
Who buys it. Payroll and HR, benefits, staffing, commercial insurance brokers, office space, equipment leasing.
Matched to the registry by name, city, and zip. A name match is an inference, so we grade every link and only fire on the strong ones.
Took on financing
UCC financing statements
A secured filing against the business. It borrowed against assets or financed equipment, which is one of the few hard public signals that a small business is spending to grow.
Who buys it. Equipment vendors, banks and credit unions, commercial insurers, leasing companies.
The state publishes one month of lien filings at a time and does not backfill, so the count is a single real month, not an average.
Got a contractor license
Construction Contractors Board
A new CCB license. The record states the endorsement, so it separates commercial contractors from residential ones, which a business name never does. It also carries a phone on almost every row.
Who buys it. Building material suppliers, tool and equipment dealers, surety and liability insurers, fleet and fuel, job-site services.
Matched on name and city.
Government lien filed
UCC lien filings
A county warrant or other government lien against the business. Money is owed to a public body.
Who buys it. Collections, restructuring and turnaround, asset-based lenders, business brokers.
Same one-month-at-a-time source as the financing filings.
Tax lien filed
UCC lien filings
A federal tax lien. Low volume and high value. A lien is not good or bad, it is a different buyer, which is why we keep it apart from the financing feed.
Who buys it. Tax attorneys and resolution firms, bookkeepers, restructuring advisors.
Same one-month-at-a-time source as the financing filings.
License not renewed
OLCC non-renewals
A license that lapsed instead of renewing. The closing signal, and the inverse of everything else here. Useful for knowing who to stop calling as much as who to call.
Who buys it. Equipment liquidators and used-asset buyers, commercial real estate, anyone cleaning a stale pipeline.
The state posts non-renewals in batches, so it lands in some months and not others.
Still filling in
These come from our own crawler rather than a state file, so they only exist where it has already run. 3,230 businesses checked so far.
Got a liquor license
OLCC active licenses
The venue is licensed and serving. A license is the strongest public proof that a business actually operates out of a real address, not just a registered one.
Who buys it. Food and beverage distributors, linen and commercial cleaning, POS, music and AV, restaurant insurers.
The OLCC issues on a renewal cycle, so months bunch up. Averaging over the year is the honest read.
Applied for a liquor license
OLCC pending applications
An application filed before the doors open. This is the one signal in the set that leads the opening instead of following it, because the state makes you file first.
Who buys it. Commercial kitchen and equipment, POS, food and beverage distributors, signage, build-out contractors, cleaners, insurers.
Matched on name.
Launched a website
Our own enrichment crawler
A business that had no site now has one. The mirror of it is the more valuable list: the businesses still with no web presence after 90 days.
Who buys it. Web agencies, hosting, SEO and local listings, brand and design.
This one is ours, not the state's, so it only exists where our crawler has already run. It is early and the count climbs every week.
What sits underneath
The signals come out of one store that holds every Oregon business and the public records that attach to it. Each record keeps its source and the date we first saw it, so a business has a history instead of a snapshot.
Licenses and permits
- deq80,233
- Construction Contractors Board licenses56,990
- Building Codes Division licenses47,969
- fmcsa27,728
- doj_charity23,952
- OLCC liquor licenses22,999
- OLCC liquor license applications5,319
- odhs_ltc4,771
- OLCC cannabis licenses3,676
- OLCC licenses not renewed1,817
UCC and lien filings
- Financing statements10,396
- Government warrants and liens1,508
- Federal tax liens519
Employers by headcount
From the workers' comp record, so it covers businesses with staff. 74,572 of them are matched to a registered business.
- 1-10 employees110,637
- 11-49 employees17,627
- 50-99 employees2,749
- 100-499 employees2,194
- 500 or more employees514
That record also carries a phone on 120,870 employers and names the carrier, across 350 insurers. Across every source we hold a phone for 85,543 businesses.
Where the signals fire
Signals over the 12 months from September 2025, by the city on the business record. Same city split as the registry feeds, so you can buy signals for the markets you already sell into.
How we count, and what the limits are
We date the event, not the download
Every signal keeps two dates: when the thing happened, from the filing itself, and when we noticed. Rates on this page use the first one. A feed sold on freshness has to report what happened this month, not a two-year-old filing we only now loaded.
A name match is an inference
The state does not put its registry number on a license or a lien, so we join on a normalized name plus city and zip where the source has them. Every link carries a confidence grade and only the strong ones go in the feed. A false match costs more than a missed one.
Some sources publish in bursts
Liquor licenses renew on a cycle, so those months bunch up. Lien filings are published one month at a time and cannot be backfilled. That is why each feed shows how many of the last 12 months it appeared in.
Everything here is public record
State open data plus a business's own published website. No skip tracing, no owner personal numbers. The work is pulling all of it into one store, matching each filing to the right business, and telling you the day something changed.
Compliance
The data comes from public business-registry, license, and filing records. We give you the facts to use. You are responsible for following outreach rules. That means CAN-SPAM for email, and the Do-Not-Call registry and TCPA for calls and texts. We are not affiliated with the Oregon Secretary of State.
Tell us which signal you want
Signal feeds are in early access. Tell us the market you sell in and the event you want to hear about, and we'll send a sample and bring you on as it launches.