Track your CAC applications from your own systems

What you can build on the CAC portal

• List your applications and their status

  Build this

  Reads the applications on your Dashboard with each one's status: Pending, Queried or Approved.

  Takes

  Status (optional)

  Returns

  Entity name, application type, status, AV Code

• Read the query on an application

  Build this

  Opens Action, then View Query History on a Queried application and reads the reason the Commission gave.

  Takes

  Entity name or AV Code

  Returns

  Entity name, application type, query date, query reason

• Check a proposed name's availability

  Build this

  Fills in Name Reservation up to Check Availability and reads the result, with the AI name suggestions when the name is unavailable. Nothing is paid.

  Takes

  Business classification, business type, proposed name, nature of business, specific nature of business

  Returns

  Proposed name, available or not, suggested names

• Re-submit a queried application

  Build this

  Opens Action, then Modify Application on a Queried application, changes the fields you name and submits it again.

  Takes

  Entity name or AV Code, fields to change with new values

  Returns

  Entity name, application type, status after re-submission

Automate the CAC portal with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Newly queried applications, with the query reason

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 8:00, Lagos time

  Step 1

  List your applications on the Dashboard with the status Queried.

  Step 2

  Keep the ones that were not Queried on the last run.

  Step 3

  Read the query history of each one.

  Step 4

  Email you the list with entity name, application type and query reason.

• Approved applications, posted to your matter system

  Build this

  Starts

  Every hour on weekdays

  Step 1

  List your applications on the Dashboard with the status Approved.

  Step 2

  Keep the ones that were not Approved on the last run, and stop when there are none.

  Step 3

  Post entity name, application type and AV Code to your system's webhook.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “List your applications and their status” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "icrp.cac.gov.ng/get_applications",
    "input": {
      "status": "Queried"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "applications": [
      {
        "entity_name": "Northwind Logistics Limited",
        "application_type": "Company registration",
        "status": "Queried",
        "av_code": "AV-XXXXXXX1"
      },
      {
        "entity_name": "Globex Trading Enterprises",
        "application_type": "Business name registration",
        "status": "Queried",
        "av_code": "AV-XXXXXXX2"
      }
    ],
    "count": 2
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

The CAC portal’s own options

The Commission's public website and the CRP user guide describe no API for filing or for reading your own applications. Name reservation, registration and post-incorporation filings are done on the CAC portal, with fees paid through Remita. Public Search looks up a registered entity by RC Number, AV Code or Approved Name.

Read on November 12, 2026: Interim user guide: CRP 3.0, CRP frequently asked questions, Corporate Affairs Commission.

Signing in to the CAC portal

The CAC portal asks for a username and password, then a One-Time Password sent to your registered email address. The username can be your email address, phone number or accreditation number, and many wrong attempts lock the account. With Fous you sign in once through the portal's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, the emailed code is handled, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

Pending means the AI review is running

The guide says an application shows Pending while the portal's AI reviews it: wait a minute and refresh. A Queried application shows its reason under View Query History.

Post-incorporation filings are reviewed by hand

Post Inc. filings, and names that need consent, go to an Approving Officer instead of the AI review. For a name that needs consent, you receive an email when the status becomes Queried or Approved.

The AV Code links reservation to registration

A paid name reservation is approved at once and returns an AV Code. Registration starts by entering that code under Register New Business, so keep it with each matter.

Proprietor documents are images

For each proprietor, Means of Identification, Passport Photograph and Signature are uploaded in image format, then saved with Add Proprietor Document.

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