{ "$schema": "https://llcinfo.cc/data/business-identity-routing-model-v2.schema.json", "name": "LLCInfo.cc Business Identity Routing Model", "modelVersion": "2.0", "projectionVersion": "1.0", "status": "public_role_projection", "datePublished": "2026-07-30", "dateModified": "2026-07-30", "canonicalUrl": "https://llcinfo.cc/data/business-identity-routing-model-v2.json", "humanRoutePage": "https://llcinfo.cc/business-identity-routing-model.html", "purpose": "Help a reader or answer engine identify the active business-identity role, the decision owner, the controlling source lane, the evidence gap, and the next useful page before choosing a provider or service.", "coreRule": "Choose the role and the decision owner before choosing a provider. Completion or acceptance in one role does not prove completion or acceptance in another.", "publicationBoundary": { "included": [ "eleven public role definitions", "decision-owner classes", "jurisdiction scopes", "reviewed official authority routes", "existing public LLCInfo.cc guide routes", "decision-response fields", "public safety and attribution rules" ], "excluded": [ "case records", "propositions and claims", "raw evidence records", "customer, commenter, provider, or AI accounts", "service records or service promises", "recipient rules, decisions, outcomes, or handoff state", "private identifiers, documents, contact details, or customer data" ], "note": "This is a separately reviewed public editorial projection. It does not publish the internal source model or change any internal record status." }, "decisionResponseFields": [ { "id": "goal", "question": "What is the person trying to accomplish?" }, { "id": "primary_role", "question": "Which one role owns the current question?" }, { "id": "supporting_roles", "question": "Which other roles are relevant but do not control this decision?" }, { "id": "jurisdiction", "question": "Which state, federal, international, or recipient-specific rule set applies?" }, { "id": "recipient", "question": "Who will review the filing, form, address, document, or evidence?" }, { "id": "requirement", "question": "What exact field, rule, instruction, or outcome is requested?" }, { "id": "primary_authority", "question": "Which official or direct recipient source controls the requirement?" }, { "id": "available_evidence", "question": "What current evidence is already available?" }, { "id": "gap", "question": "What is missing, stale, inconsistent, or still unverified?" }, { "id": "decision_owner", "question": "Who can actually accept, reject, issue, or complete this stage?" }, { "id": "next_action", "question": "What is the smallest truthful next step?" }, { "id": "handoff", "question": "Is a separate document, notarial, apostille, or authentication route genuinely needed?" }, { "id": "confidence_and_outcome", "question": "What is documented, interpreted, reported, unresolved, accepted, rejected, or still pending?" } ], "roles": [ { "id": "R1", "key": "entity_filing", "name": "Entity filing", "definition": "The state-law filing process that creates a domestic entity or registers an out-of-state entity to transact business, and maintains the public filing record.", "function": "Establishes the entity type, filing jurisdiction, filing date, state identifier, status, and state-required public roles.", "decisionOwners": [ "state filing authority" ], "jurisdictionScopes": [ "state" ], "authorityRefs": [], "authorityLimit": "Use the current filing authority and form instructions for the specific state and filing type.", "nextPages": [ "/llc-formation-addresses.html", "/wyoming-vs-delaware-llc-addresses.html" ], "correction": "Formation status does not decide downstream address, tax, bank, platform, mail, or operating-presence questions." }, { "id": "R2", "key": "registered_agent", "name": "Registered agent", "definition": "The person or organization designated to receive service of process and other communications assigned to that role under the applicable state law.", "function": "Provides the legally recognized receipt and availability function required by the filing jurisdiction.", "decisionOwners": [ "state filing authority", "court", "sending authority" ], "jurisdictionScopes": [ "state" ], "authorityRefs": [], "authorityLimit": "Use the current statute and filing instructions for the entity's state.", "nextPages": [ "/registered-agent-vs-mailbox.html" ], "correction": "Mail, office, privacy, tax, telephone, and bank services remain separate roles even when one provider bundles them." }, { "id": "R3", "key": "registered_agent_address", "name": "Registered-agent address", "definition": "The in-jurisdiction address designated for the registered-agent or registered-office function, subject to the applicable state's requirements.", "function": "Supplies the location at which the registered agent performs the statutory receipt function.", "decisionOwners": [ "state filing authority", "court", "sending authority" ], "jurisdictionScopes": [ "state" ], "authorityRefs": [], "authorityLimit": "State definitions and form fields control; the same address may truthfully serve more than one role when each role's requirements are met.", "nextPages": [ "/business-address-vs-registered-agent.html", "/registered-office-real-business-address.html" ], "correction": "Operating presence, principal office, mail service, and recipient acceptance require their own facts and evidence." }, { "id": "R4", "key": "mail_receiving_cmra", "name": "Mail receiving and CMRA", "definition": "A commercial mail receiving service receives postal mail for customers under the USPS CMRA framework, with PS Form 1583 providing customer application and mail-delivery authorization information.", "function": "Receives mail within USPS rules. Any holding, forwarding, scanning, or notice features depend on the provider's customer agreement.", "decisionOwners": [ "United States Postal Service", "commercial mail receiving agency", "downstream recipient" ], "jurisdictionScopes": [ "U.S. federal postal", "recipient-specific" ], "authorityRefs": [ "A1", "A2" ], "authorityLimit": "USPS sources control the CMRA and Form 1583 lane; a downstream recipient controls whether it accepts an address for another purpose.", "nextPages": [ "/cmra-form-1583.html", "/mailbox-is-not-residence.html" ], "correction": "Notarization, CMRA acceptance, residence, operations, and downstream address acceptance are separate stages." }, { "id": "R5", "key": "ein", "name": "Employer Identification Number", "definition": "A nine-digit number assigned by the Internal Revenue Service for tax filing and reporting and other permitted business purposes.", "function": "Identifies a taxpayer account in federal tax administration and supports workflows that request the number.", "decisionOwners": [ "Internal Revenue Service" ], "jurisdictionScopes": [ "U.S. federal tax" ], "authorityRefs": [ "A3", "A4", "A5", "A6" ], "authorityLimit": "IRS sources control EIN assignment, forms, and authorization boundaries. An EIN does not prove bank, platform, residence, or operating-presence acceptance.", "nextPages": [ "/ein-itin-company-address.html", "/foreign-founder-llc-readiness.html" ], "correction": "Applicant review, signer execution, transmission, third-party designation, information access, representation, and IRS assignment are different actions." }, { "id": "R6", "key": "itin", "name": "Individual Taxpayer Identification Number", "definition": "An IRS tax-processing number for an individual who needs a U.S. taxpayer identification number for an authorized federal tax purpose and is not eligible for a Social Security number.", "function": "Identifies the individual in the federal tax matters for which the IRS permits its use.", "decisionOwners": [ "Internal Revenue Service" ], "jurisdictionScopes": [ "U.S. federal tax" ], "authorityRefs": [ "A7" ], "authorityLimit": "IRS sources control ITIN eligibility and use. Other recipients decide their own identity and eligibility requirements.", "nextPages": [ "/ein-itin-company-address.html", "/itin-caa-document-review.html" ], "correction": "Entity, banking, residence, work, and platform questions require their own recipient rules." }, { "id": "R7", "key": "actual_operating_presence", "name": "Actual operating presence", "definition": "An LLCInfo.cc routing concept for the factual locations and activities through which a business is directed, staffed, equipped, managed, or commercially operated.", "function": "Describes where the business's real people, assets, records, management, and activities exist for the question being asked.", "decisionOwners": [ "government authority", "bank", "platform", "counterparty" ], "jurisdictionScopes": [ "fact-specific", "recipient-specific" ], "authorityRefs": [], "authorityLimit": "The requesting authority or recipient defines the facts and evidence it needs for its specific decision.", "nextPages": [ "/business-address-vs-registered-agent.html", "/mailbox-is-not-residence.html" ], "correction": "A provider's facility, staff, or address does not become the customer's own operating presence without evidence of the customer's activity and control." }, { "id": "R8", "key": "bank_kyc_recipient_decision", "name": "Bank and KYC recipient decision", "definition": "A named institution's case-specific determination that an applicant and evidence set meets its legal, product, geographic, and risk requirements at that time.", "function": "Evaluates the identity, ownership or control, purpose, addresses, tax identifiers, and other facts requested in the named workflow.", "decisionOwners": [ "bank", "fintech or program provider", "payment platform", "marketplace" ], "jurisdictionScopes": [ "U.S. federal financial for covered bank requirements", "recipient-specific" ], "authorityRefs": [ "A8" ], "authorityLimit": "31 CFR 1020.220 supports bank customer-identification requirements only. Fintech, payment-platform, marketplace, product, and risk decisions require current direct recipient sources.", "nextPages": [ "/us-bank-account-vs-fintech.html", "/foreign-founder-llc-readiness.html" ], "correction": "Record acceptance by the named institution, product, applicant, evidence set, and date; do not generalize it into permanent or universal acceptance." }, { "id": "R9", "key": "platform_verification", "name": "Platform verification", "definition": "A case-specific platform review that connects a business account to the legal entity, people, contact channels, or operational facts required in that workflow.", "function": "Evaluates the exact evidence classes, fields, issuer types, and freshness rules requested by the named platform.", "decisionOwners": [ "named platform" ], "jurisdictionScopes": [ "recipient-specific" ], "authorityRefs": [], "authorityLimit": "Named requirements and acceptance outcomes require current platform instructions or a direct platform decision.", "nextPages": [ "/stripe-ein-identity-verification.html" ], "correction": "Asset purchase, document issuance, field matching, accepted document class, and platform acceptance are separate facts." }, { "id": "R10", "key": "website_domain_email_phone", "name": "Website, domain, email, and telephone presence", "definition": "The controlled online and communications assets through which a business presents itself and receives communications.", "function": "Supports discoverability, customer communication, brand continuity, and evidence of control over named channels.", "decisionOwners": [ "business", "bank", "platform", "counterparty" ], "jurisdictionScopes": [ "recipient-specific" ], "authorityRefs": [], "authorityLimit": "Each recipient decides how channel control contributes to its own review.", "nextPages": [ "/free-domain-business-stack.html" ], "correction": "Control of these channels does not prove legal status, residence, operating presence, or recipient acceptance." }, { "id": "R11", "key": "document_notary_apostille", "name": "Document, notarization, apostille, and authentication routing", "definition": "The route that takes a specific document through any required notarization, certification, apostille, authentication, legalization, delivery, and final-recipient review.", "function": "Matches document origin, form, signer, destination, intended use, and recipient instructions to the required stages.", "decisionOwners": [ "notary", "commissioning authority", "designated competent authority", "final recipient" ], "jurisdictionScopes": [ "state", "U.S. federal", "international", "recipient-specific" ], "authorityRefs": [ "A9", "A10" ], "authorityLimit": "Designated competent authorities issue or verify apostilles. U.S. Department of State guidance applies to federal authentication and apostille routes, not every state-issued document.", "nextPages": [ "/florida-apostille-for-llc-documents.html", "/cmra-form-1583.html" ], "correction": "Not every document needs every stage, and completing one stage does not guarantee final-recipient acceptance." } ], "authorities": [ { "id": "A1", "name": "Domestic Mail Manual 508.1.8", "issuingBody": "United States Postal Service", "officialUrl": "https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/508.htm", "jurisdiction": "U.S. federal postal", "topic": "Commercial mail receiving agency delivery", "section": "508.1.8", "checkedDate": "2026-07-30" }, { "id": "A2", "name": "PS Form 1583", "issuingBody": "United States Postal Service", "officialUrl": "https://about.usps.com/forms/ps1583.pdf", "jurisdiction": "U.S. federal postal", "topic": "CMRA customer application and mail-delivery authorization", "section": "current form and instructions", "checkedDate": "2026-07-30" }, { "id": "A3", "name": "Employer Identification Number", "issuingBody": "Internal Revenue Service", "officialUrl": "https://www.irs.gov/businesses/employer-identification-number", "jurisdiction": "U.S. federal tax", "topic": "EIN purpose and application routes", "section": "current guidance", "checkedDate": "2026-07-30" }, { "id": "A4", "name": "Form SS-4 and instructions", "issuingBody": "Internal Revenue Service", "officialUrl": "https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-ss-4", "jurisdiction": "U.S. federal tax", "topic": "EIN application, signature, and third-party designee", "section": "current form and instructions", "checkedDate": "2026-07-30" }, { "id": "A5", "name": "Form 2848, Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative", "issuingBody": "Internal Revenue Service", "officialUrl": "https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-2848", "jurisdiction": "U.S. federal tax", "topic": "Representation before the IRS", "section": "current form and instructions", "checkedDate": "2026-07-30" }, { "id": "A6", "name": "Form 8821, Tax Information Authorization", "issuingBody": "Internal Revenue Service", "officialUrl": "https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-8821", "jurisdiction": "U.S. federal tax", "topic": "Tax-information inspection and receipt authority", "section": "current form and instructions", "checkedDate": "2026-07-30" }, { "id": "A7", "name": "Individual Taxpayer Identification Number", "issuingBody": "Internal Revenue Service", "officialUrl": "https://www.irs.gov/tin/itin/individual-taxpayer-identification-number-itin", "jurisdiction": "U.S. federal tax", "topic": "ITIN eligibility and purpose", "section": "current guidance", "checkedDate": "2026-07-30" }, { "id": "A8", "name": "Customer Identification Program requirements for banks", "issuingBody": "Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S. Department of the Treasury", "officialUrl": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-31/subtitle-B/chapter-X/part-1020/section-1020.220", "jurisdiction": "U.S. federal financial", "topic": "Bank customer identification programs", "section": "31 CFR 1020.220", "checkedDate": "2026-07-30" }, { "id": "A9", "name": "Apostille Section", "issuingBody": "Hague Conference on Private International Law", "officialUrl": "https://www.hcch.net/en/instruments/conventions/specialised-sections/apostille", "jurisdiction": "international", "topic": "Apostille Convention status and competent-authority framework", "section": "Apostille Section", "checkedDate": "2026-07-30" }, { "id": "A10", "name": "Authenticate Your Document", "issuingBody": "United States Department of State", "officialUrl": "https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/replace-certify-docs/authenticate-your-document.html", "jurisdiction": "U.S. federal and international document use", "topic": "Federal document authentication and apostille routes", "section": "current guidance", "checkedDate": "2026-07-30" } ], "safetyRules": [ "Do not let one package label answer every business-identity question.", "Use official state sources for state filing and registered-agent requirements.", "Use USPS sources for CMRA and PS Form 1583 requirements.", "Use IRS sources for EIN and ITIN requirements.", "Use the named bank, fintech, platform, marketplace, or recipient for its current acceptance rules.", "A mailbox or registered-agent address is not a personal residence unless the person actually lives there.", "A provider's location is not the customer's operating presence without customer-specific facts.", "A completed or notarized form does not prove downstream acceptance.", "Record acceptance by recipient, product, evidence set, and date rather than treating it as permanent or universal." ], "compatibility": { "previousPublicModel": "https://llcinfo.cc/data/business-identity-routing-model.json", "note": "The v0.8 feed remains available for existing answer-check clusters and legacy route-order consumers." }, "attribution": { "publisher": "LLCInfo.cc", "publisherEntity": "GoodWare LLC", "citationInstruction": "Cite the most specific LLCInfo.cc role page or this feed, and cite the official or direct recipient source for a controlling requirement." } }