Start a Registered Agent Service
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Be the legally required registered agent for LLCs and corporations, receiving official mail and service of process for a recurring annual fee, the compliance-moat business in its purest form.
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Difficulty
Intermediate
Startup cost
$500 to $2,000
Time to first $
30 to 90 days
Revenue potential
Medium
Profit margin
80 to 95 percent
Viability
7.2 / 10
Search demand
Medium (2K+ per month)
Where it runs
Local
Best for: Reliability-obsessed operators who love quiet recurring revenue
The opening
Why this idea is overlooked
Every one of the millions of LLCs and corporations formed each year is legally required to maintain a registered agent forever, making this one of the purest recurring-revenue compliance businesses that exists; the statutory requirements (a physical address, business-hours availability, state registration for commercial agents) are exactly the moat that keeps it from being a race to zero.
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