Keep your home address off the public internet.
Use our address on your state formation, your Registered Agent designation, your annual reports, your BOI, your WHOIS, and your business directories. Your home address never goes on a public record.
Identity Privacy, plainly.
When you form an LLC or corporation, the state requires a principal business address and a Registered Agent address. Both go on the public state record. The principal address is searchable on the Secretary of State website. The Registered Agent address is searchable too. Your BOI report filed with FinCEN includes your home address (BOI itself is not public, but the same address often appears elsewhere).
For founders running businesses from home, this is a privacy issue. Your home address ends up in business directories, marketing data lists, and people-finder sites. It becomes the address that customers might show up at, that creditors might serve papers to, that strangers can look up.
Our identity privacy service replaces your home address with our address on every public record: state formation filings, Registered Agent designation, annual reports, business directory listings (Yelp, Google Business Profile, etc. set up through us), WHOIS records, and other places it would otherwise appear. Mail sent to our address is scanned and uploaded to your Document Vault same-day.
Common situations.
What is included.
- Our address on state formation filings
- Our address as your Registered Agent in any state
- Our address on annual reports
- Our address on BOI reports filed through us
- WHOIS privacy on every domain we manage
- Mail scanned within 24 hours to Document Vault
- Optional physical forwarding (weekly or monthly)
- Junk mail filtered automatically
- Compliance with state laws on commercial mail receiving
Four steps. We handle the rest.
How we compare.
- $9/mo or free with Registered Agent
- State filings updated automatically
- WHOIS privacy on managed domains
- Mail scanned to vault same day
- Multi-state coverage
- Junk mail filtered
| PMB / UPS Store | Stable | Northwest RA | File.Business | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per month | $25-$50 | $15-$50 | tied to RA | $9 / free with RA |
| State filings updated | no | no | partial | included |
| Domain WHOIS privacy | no | no | no | included |
| Mail scanned to vault | no | yes | no | yes |
| Multi-state | manual | yes | their RA states | yes |
“I run a consultancy from my house. I do not want clients showing up. The address swap took two weeks (one state amendment), and my home went off public records within a month.”
The File.Business Promise
If we miss a deadline on a service you pay us to manage, we cover the penalty. If you change your mind within 60 days, we refund our fee in full. Your data stays yours, always.
Common questions.
Is this legal?
Does my mail still reach me?
Will the IRS or state agencies accept it?
What about my Registered Agent address?
What if my state already has my home address on file?
Does this hide me from lawsuits?
What if I receive a check by mail?
How does WHOIS privacy work?
Multi-state coverage?
Pricing?
Get address privacy in about 5 minutes.
Tell us a few details. We do the rest. You get a single dashboard for everything.
On the $129/yr Compliance Annual Filings plan, we cover state late fees.
When you autofile your annual report through the $129/yr plan and we miss the deadline, we pay the state's late fee. The guarantee applies to that specific plan and the filings it includes. Other File.Business services are billed at the prices on this page.
Four steps from request to delivery
File.Business runs your filing on a single concierge workflow. You provide what we need; we handle the rest.
Tell us what you need
2-minute intake. We confirm the filing type, jurisdiction, and any supporting documents required.
We prepare the filing
Our specialists draft the document, validate against state requirements, and queue for your review where required.
We submit to the state
Filed through the state portal. We pay the state fee, track the submission, and resolve any state correspondence.
Confirmation in your vault
state-required document delivered to your SOC 2 encrypted document vault, with deadline tracking for the next filing.