ucc — UCC: who lent against a company's assets — openbash
UCC-1 financing statements naming a company as debtor, with the secured party. Colorado and Connecticut only.
ucc
ucc is a command on the openbash shell, reachable over HTTP, SSH and MCP with one key. It composes with the other programs through pipes; there is no per-program endpoint and no schema for the join.
ucc search acme manufacturing
help
ucc: who lent against a company's assets, as JSON.
RETURNS
One JSON object on stdout.
WHAT A UCC-1 SAYS
Someone took a security interest in a business's property — equipment
finance, a working-capital line, an acquisition loan. It answers two things
at once: this company borrowed, and THIS is who lent. The secured party is
often the most useful field here, since it is a lending relationship already
in place before anyone pitches a competing one.
IT COVERS TWO STATES OUT OF FIFTY
UCC-1s are filed with each Secretary of State, and only Colorado and
Connecticut publish data that can be queried. The rest are behind web forms
or bot walls.
So an empty answer means NO LIEN IN THOSE TWO STATES. It does not mean the
company is unencumbered, and for a company with no Colorado or Connecticut
presence it means nothing at all.
READ THE COVERAGE FIELD
Every answer carries one, naming what was searched and what failed. A
registry that errored is listed under `failed` rather than folded into
"nothing found" — an outage and a clean company look identical otherwise.
Studies:
search <company>
UCC-1 liens naming this company as debtor, with who lent — CO and CT only
JSON to stdout, so it composes: pipe to `jq` to pick a field, or `> /tmp/…` to keep it.
Run a study with no arguments — `ucc search` — to see what it takes.
What it answers
ucc search — UCC-1 liens naming this company as debtor, with who lent — CO and CT only