A private recovery firm, built on the State Controller's published records
When a health plan, insurer, bank, or vendor loses touch with a company, the money it owed is turned over to the State Controller, and there it sits, indefinitely, until the owner proves it theirs. We find it, assemble the proof the State requires, bring a notary to your office for the one signature the law wants in ink, and file it. The State pays you directly. You can also do every bit of this yourself, free, at claimit.ca.gov. We say that first because it is true.
$0
owed until the State Controller has paid you
10%
our maximum fee, capped by CCP §1582
Never
cold calls, money up front, or SSN requests
To you
the notary comes to your office, at our cost
Got a box from us?
Enter the code printed inside, or scan the QR code on the letter. The page it opens shows the same property IDs and amounts the State's own site does, before we ask you for anything at all.
If a code doesn't work, the letter isn't from us. Report it to the Controller at CSUResearch@sco.ca.gov, and feel free to forward it to us too.
Why so much is still sitting there
$13 billion+
held by the State Controller right now, across tens of millions of properties.
$1 million+
returned every day, to owners who do the paperwork. The rest keeps sitting.
No deadline
California holds unclaimed property indefinitely. Nothing here is urgent, and nothing happens on its own either.
Figures as published by the California State Controller, who posts the running totals and the entire property file. Check them, and your company, at claimit.ca.gov.
California keeps unclaimed property safely and forever, and it publishes the whole database. What it does not do is come and find you, tell you which documents prove a business claim, or chase the paperwork when something is missing. That work falls to the owner, and it is the reason billions sit unclaimed in a system working exactly as designed.
For a company, the proof is where claims die: tying the business to an address it may have left years ago, the EIN, the signer's authority to act, a wet-ink signature notarized in person and mailed to Sacramento, then months of document requests that close the claim if missed. Finding the money is the easy half. We do the other half.
Ten minutes on your phone, one visit, then the State
We find it and prove it's real
We work from the State Controller's own published file. Our letter names each property ID and amount, so you can check every line at claimit.ca.gov before you talk to us.
You confirm and sign
Confirm the company, read the full terms, authorize us, send four quick photos, each named with the reason the State needs it. Nothing sensitive is asked before you've seen the terms.
A notary comes to you
Fifteen minutes at your office, at our cost. California requires one wet-ink, notarized signature for claims of $1,000 and up, the single thing that can't happen online. We bring it, witness it, and mail it.
The State pays you directly
Two checks from Sacramento: yours to you, our fee to us, out of the recovery. There is no invoice and nothing owed if the claim doesn't pay.
Two routes to the same money
Both end with the State Controller paying your company. They differ in who does the work, and what happens when something goes wrong.
The State's process, free
You search claimit.ca.gov, work out which filing category and documents your situation needs, find a notary for the affirmation, mail the packet, and answer the State's deficiency letters yourself. For a straightforward claim in the company's current name at its current address, this is genuinely fine, and you keep everything.
Ours, at 10% of what is recovered
We assemble the documentation list the State will actually accept, pre-fill every form, send the notary to your office, mail the packet, and answer each document request within days for the 7 to 13 months a business claim takes, with an update to you at every stage. The State still pays you directly.
The honest summary: we are worth hiring when the record is old, the address is stale, or the amount is large enough that getting it wrong is expensive. If yours is simple, file it yourself and keep everything.
Being straight about it
You are not paying us for access: every record we hold is public, and every claim we file, you could file yourself at claimit.ca.gov for nothing. The fee buys four things done right on the first day instead of discovered over months:
What it does not buy: speed at the State's end. Once a claim is lodged, the Controller works at its own pace, and no one can change that. Not us, not anybody advertising otherwise.
Where we earn the fee
If the record matches your company's current name at its current address, the State approves it with little evidence, and you should file it yourself. The claims that sit unpaid for years are the ones where something no longer lines up:
The address is a decade old
The holder reported the company at an office it left years ago. The State wants something tying the business to that address.
The proof spans two documents
The EIN is on one page, the holder relationship on another. We know which single document, usually the holder's own 1099, does both.
Nobody can say who signs
The State wants evidence the person signing can act for the company. A short corporate resolution settles it; most people learn that from the rejection letter.
A deficiency notice went quiet
Most complex claims are not refused. They stall on a letter nobody answers, and the file sits for years. Answering those letters fast is most of the job.
The first question everybody has
It's the right question, and you should keep asking it, of us and of anyone else who writes to you about money. The State Controller publishes warnings about firms in this industry, and they are worth reading. Everything below can be verified without trusting us:
Anything that breaks those rules isn't us. Report it to the Controller at CSUResearch@sco.ca.gov, and ask us anything first: recovery@graypointdata.com.
Who you are dealing with
Find it
We work from our own copy of the Controller's published file, matched against business registrations: old names, former addresses, predecessor entities, the suffixes the holder's clerk typed in 2009.
Work out what proves it
The evidence differs by property type and by what has changed since the record was made. Most business claims stall on proving the old address, not on entitlement, and that is where the work is.
Bring the notary to you
Every cash claim of $1,000 or more needs a notarized, wet-ink affirmation. We send a mobile notary to your office at our cost, so the claim never waits on an appointment.
File it and stay with it
We mail the packet to Sacramento, answer whatever the Controller comes back with, and write to you at every stage, including when there is nothing to report, because silence is what makes a months-long process feel like being ignored.
One more thing this site deliberately does not have: a search box. We work only with businesses we have already verified in the State's file and written to by mail, so every page here is reached by a code we sent. If you want to search, use the State's own claimit.ca.gov. It is free and it is excellent.
The statute does the promising
10%
Maximum fee for recovery, set by Code of Civil Procedure §1582, owed only after the State pays.
$1,000
Cash claims at or above this must carry a notarized, wet-ink signature. So the notary visit is the law, not our preference.
Delivered first
No agreement until the property has actually been delivered to the State (CCP §1582). We never write about money that is merely on its way.
2 checks
The State pays the owner and the recovery firm separately. Clients never pay us, and there is nothing to refund because nothing was collected.
Asked by every CFO so far
You can, and every page we show you links to the State's own site. What we sell is the paperwork: proving your company's tie to an old address, the EIN, the signer's authority, a notarized wet-ink signature mailed to Sacramento, and the document requests that follow for 7 to 13 months. We do all of it and send a notary to your office. If we don't recover anything, you owe nothing. For a simple claim you're happy to run yourself, file it free and keep everything.
Your part takes about ten minutes, plus a fifteen-minute notary visit at your office. Plan on 7 to 10 months for the State after that (they say up to 180 days for review). We track it and tell you when anything changes, including when nothing has, so silence never means forgotten.
A mobile notary we pay comes to your office with two pre-filled pages. The officer signs both in ink, the notary stamps one, and carries them away in our prepaid envelope. You never print, drive, or mail anything.
An officer who can act for the company: owner, partner, CEO, CFO, administrator. An office manager or bookkeeper can do every other step, but the one wet-ink signature is the officer's. The flow asks for the signer's name and title, and a short corporate resolution covers the authority.
That is the normal case, and most of what we do. The money was usually reported at an address the company left years ago. We work out which documents tie today's company to that record, and the flow asks you to photograph exactly those, each named with the reason the State needs it.
Photos you send go straight to encrypted storage. They are never in email, are viewed only to prepare your claim, and are deleted on a fixed schedule after the claim pays. We will never ask you for money, your Social Security number, or a bank login.
A check, by mail, to your company's address: the State pays owners directly and always has. Our fee arrives as a separate check from the State to us, out of the recovery. There is no invoice from us at any point.
Because that's where the trail starts: the State's file lists your company at an address it once used. We never cold-call, and our letter names the exact properties the State holds, with their IDs, so you can verify every line before you reply to anything.
Got a box from us?
Your company's page is already prepared.
The code inside opens your record: the same property IDs and amounts the State publishes, and exactly what happens next. Reading it commits you to nothing.
Enter the code