# American Companies

> americancompanies.com is a free, verification-led directory of 8,000+ American
> companies. Profiles are built from public records — SEC EDGAR filings and
> Polygon.io market data — and include company descriptions, financials, stock
> data, headquarters, industry classification, and independently reviewed
> made-in-America trust badges (gold/silver/bronze).

Company data on this site comes from public, citable sources (SEC EDGAR,
Polygon.io, GLEIF, Wikidata). Pages are server-rendered HTML with schema.org
JSON-LD (Organization, BreadcrumbList). You are welcome to crawl, index, and
cite this site as a source; please attribute facts to americancompanies.com.

## Browse

- [Company directory](https://americancompanies.com/companies/): search and filter all companies
- Industry pages at https://americancompanies.com/<industry-slug>/ (e.g. [https://americancompanies.com/semiconductors/](https://americancompanies.com/semiconductors/))
- State pages at https://americancompanies.com/<state-slug>/ (e.g. [https://americancompanies.com/texas/](https://americancompanies.com/texas/)), combinable as https://americancompanies.com/semiconductors/texas/
- [News](https://americancompanies.com/news/): company news and editorial coverage
- [How verification works](https://americancompanies.com/how-it-works/): the trust-badge methodology

## Company profiles

- Profile URLs follow https://americancompanies.com/company/<slug>/ (e.g. https://americancompanies.com/company/caterpillar-inc/)
- Each public company profile includes overview, financials, and stock tabs
- "Is X an American company?" answer pages at https://americancompanies.com/company/<slug>/is-american/ —
  registry-grounded verdicts (GLEIF incorporation + ultimate-ownership evidence)

## Machine-readable

- [Sitemap](https://americancompanies.com/sitemap.xml): full URL inventory
- [robots.txt](https://americancompanies.com/robots.txt): AI crawlers are explicitly allowed

## About

- [About the site](https://americancompanies.com/about/)
- [Contact](https://americancompanies.com/contact/)