Extract data from articles of incorporation

Articles of incorporation are the document that brings a corporation into legal existence, and the bylaws are the rulebook for how it runs day to day. Where a contract binds two parties to each other, these bind a company to its own charter: the legal name, the state of incorporation, the stated purpose, the registered agent, and the capital the company is authorized to issue. A corporate paralegal assembling an entity-management record, a transfer agent setting up the capitalization table, and outside counsel confirming authorized capital before a financing all read the same set of fields. In the United States each state writes its own filing rules, and most track the Model Business Corporation Act, so a certificate filed with the Delaware Secretary of State and one filed in another state share a shape even when the printed forms differ. Precision matters most in the capital structure, and prose is where it hides. A charter authorizes a fixed number of shares, say 10,000,000, at a par value such as 0.0001 USD, and it may divide them into classes, a Common and a Series A Preferred, each carrying its own voting rights, dividend preferences, and conversion terms. The registered agent and that agent address establish where the company can be served, and an entity without a valid agent falls out of good standing. The bylaws layer on the operating rules: the fiscal year end, the quorum needed for a valid meeting, the voting thresholds, and the dividend policy. Amendments pile up over a corporate lifetime, so a charter first filed 2026-03-04 may carry several later restatements, each with its own effective date and the section it changed. A charter for Solara BioLabs, Inc. filed 2026-03-04 with the Delaware Secretary of State and restated 2027-02-18 authorizes 10,000,000 shares at 0.0001 USD par under the Delaware General Corporation Law. Talonic reads the articles and bylaws and returns the entity identity, the jurisdiction, the authorized capital, the registered agent, and the governance rules as fields, keeping the stock classes, the directors, the officers, and the amendment history as tables. A certificate for Solara BioLabs, Inc., incorporated in the State of Delaware under filing number 7742189 on 2026-03-04, authorizing 10,000,000 shares at 0.0001 USD par across a Common and a Series A Preferred class, naming The Corporation Trust Company as registered agent and a December 31 fiscal year end, loads into an entity-management system so a paralegal reads the capital structure and the governance terms from fields rather than the filing.

What gets extracted from articles of incorporation

How extraction works for articles of incorporation

Articles and bylaws reach a team as stamped certificates from a Secretary of State, attorney-drafted charters, and scanned restatements, and the capital and governance terms sit in numbered articles whose order varies by state. Talonic classifies the document and maps it to the corporate-formation schema in the Field Registry, which separates the entity identity and jurisdiction from the authorized capital and the governance rules. The authorized share count and the par value are typed as numbers, the stock classes return as a table with their voting rights and dividend preferences, and the registered agent and that agent address are captured because they fix where the company can be served. From the bylaws, the fiscal year end, the quorum requirement, the voting thresholds, and the dividend policy are read as their own fields, while the directors, the officers, and the amendment history are kept as tables. Each value returns with a confidence score and a pixel-region reference consistent with DIN SPEC 91491, so a paralegal or counsel can check the authorized capital or a stock class against the source filing before it feeds a capitalization table.

Sample extraction

A Delaware certificate of incorporation with bylaws

{
  "document_type": "articles_of_incorporation",
  "document_date": "2026-03-04",
  "document_number": "7742189",
  "organization.legal_name": "Solara BioLabs, Inc.",
  "organization.state_of_incorporation": "State of Delaware",
  "organization.registered_agent": "The Corporation Trust Company",
  "organization.registered_agent_address": "1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801",
  "organization.purpose": "To engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware",
  "stock.authorized_shares": 10000000,
  "stock.par_value": "0.0001",
  "stock.currency": "USD",
  "stock_classes": [
    {
      "class_name": "Common",
      "authorized_shares": 8000000,
      "par_value": "0.0001",
      "voting_rights": "1 vote per share",
      "dividend_rights": "As declared by the board"
    },
    {
      "class_name": "Series A Preferred",
      "authorized_shares": 2000000,
      "par_value": "0.0001",
      "voting_rights": "As-converted basis",
      "dividend_rights": "8% non-cumulative preference"
    }
  ],
  "bylaws.fiscal_year_end": "December 31",
  "bylaws.quorum_requirement": "Majority of outstanding shares",
  "signatures.incorporator": "Marcus Feld",
  "signatures.date": "2026-03-04"
}

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