Every feature, what it does, why it’s helpful

Screener preset that surfaces companies with fixed assets on the balance sheet, positive net assets, and no charges on file — asset-backed targets with no lender cleanup work required.

Why it helps: Find companies with real asset backing and a clean lender picture in one click — fixed assets on the balance sheet, positive net assets, no charges on file.

Year-in-review across your watched portfolio — improved, worsened, refinanced, simplified, exited, shifted thesis. Biggest movers, quiet winners, and an overall portfolio direction call.

Why it helps: A year-in-review across your watched portfolio — improved, worsened, refinanced, simplified, exited, shifted thesis. Biggest movers, quiet winners, and an overall portfolio direction call.

Flags when registered address, trading address, and known property holdings disagree.

Flags charges maturing within 24 months across the company's secured property.

Estimates % of deal value recoverable from tangible assets net of secured debt.

Spots early trouble before Gazette notices: late filings, debtor-days spike, director changes.

Months of runway from cash / quick assets vs current liabilities + trailing outflow.

Combines leverage, interest cover, and charge count to score covenant-breach risk.

Portfolio-style aggregation: total outstanding per lender across the companies you follow.

How recoverable the charge-secured debt would be in a default scenario.

Model additional debt capacity under user-entered EBITDA / rate scenarios.

Anonymised short-list of likely buyers based on sector, size, geography, and co-director patterns.

Outline of BADR, shares-vs-assets, employee ownership trust, and retirement-relief considerations.

Generates blind teaser + information memorandum outline for buyer outreach.

Search + open any UK company page

Why it helps: Find any UK company by name or number in a second, not five minutes of navigating Companies House.

CH data, SIC, age, status, AI business summary

Why it helps: Every SIC, status, age and jurisdiction fact in one place, with an AI one-liner so you know what the business actually does.

4 KPI cards + multi-year line chart

Why it helps: Cash, net worth, current assets and liabilities as headline cards with YoY deltas + a multi-year chart — at a glance, no squinting at PDFs.

Balance sheet line items from iXBRL

Why it helps: Every balance-sheet and P&L line item we extract from filed iXBRL accounts, cleanly tabulated.

Interactive sortable table with lender normalisation

Why it helps: Every mortgage and charge with lenders collapsed into canonical names (Lloyds Group, Paragon, Shawbrook…) so you see total exposure at a glance.

PSC with % shares, voting rights, control flags

Why it helps: Who really owns the business — PSC filings parsed into share and voting-rights bands with board-control flags.

Parent & subsidiaries tree

Why it helps: Parent company and ownership chain — ultimate parent, majority holder, significant stake — so you never miss the bigger structure.

Full director list with appointment history

Why it helps: Every current and former director with appointment dates and roles, each clickable to their full track record.

Full CH filing list with direct document links

Why it helps: The full Companies House filing timeline, linked to the official documents so you can read source.

Insolvency, strike-off, liquidation notices from thegazette.co.uk

Why it helps: Insolvency, strike-off, liquidation and dissolution notices from The Gazette, classified by severity and pinned to each company.

20 investor-friendly sector pages with top opportunities

Why it helps: 20 sector landing pages showing top scored opportunities and where they cluster geographically.

Active companies in the same sector + postcode area (or nearby areas when thin), ranked by estimated value.

Visual scatter plot of peer companies positioned on any two of: age, turnover, net worth, opportunity score, estimated value, employees, director age. Click to open any peer.

Describe what you want in plain English, AI translates to filters

Why it helps: Describe what you want in plain English — 'property SPVs in Newcastle with founders over 65 and low leverage' — and we translate to filters.

Buyer profile + fit scoring across the full UK companies database. Top 50 ranked targets with why-they-fit and what-changed deltas. The discovery engine for active acquirers.

All preset screeners, financial-metric filters, score filters

Why it helps: Filter 5.7M companies by turnover/profit/cash/net-worth bands plus all scoring dimensions. Every preset screener unlocked.

Match Daltons/IP-BID listings to CH companies

Why it helps: Broker listings (Daltons, IP-BID, Gazette asset sales) matched to our Companies House intelligence — see when a scored target appears in public listings.

Composite score + admin discipline score

Why it helps: Our composite opportunity score and admin-hygiene rating for quick triage before you read deeper.

Count + top 3 flags shown

Why it helps: Evidence-backed risk signals — not a vague rating. Each flag is linked to the source filing or event.

Beauhurst-style classification: Startup / Early / Growth / Established / Mature / Declining / Zombie / Distressed / Wound-down. Derived from age, turnover trajectory, profitability, status and structural activity.

Every company answers: why interesting, why risky, what's the angle — in one sentence. Derived deterministically, no AI cost per page.

Classifies the refinance situation (ready / clean-up-first / too-messy / under-pressure / no-debt) with drivers and considerations.

Events and signal movements over the last 30/90/180 days that materially moved the score.

Tracks signal changes over the last 30/90/180 days — events and movements that materially changed the picture.

Actionable 30 / 90 / 180 / 365-day task list per company — synthesised from every diligence signal we already collect. Categorised by priority and function (governance / legal / financial / people / commercial / structural). Hand it straight to your lawyer and FD.

Why it helps: An actionable 30 / 90 / 180 / 365-day checklist for every company — generated from its diligence signals, red flags, note analysis, and financial signals. Hand it to your lawyer and FD on day one.

Scores how tangled this entity is with the owner's other companies, across four dimensions — financial ties, structural ties, extraction intensity, security ties. Answers: can this company actually stand alone?

Why it helps: Tells you whether the target can genuinely stand alone after completion. Scores financial, structural, extraction and security ties, and spells out what needs unwinding before the deal settles.

Detects when the owner is actively winding down their wider portfolio — one of the strongest buyer signals. Reads dissolved / in-liquidation statuses across the co-director network and combines with grooming signals on the target.

Why it helps: Detects owners actively winding down their wider estate — one of the strongest buyer signals. Surfaces the ratio of dissolved vs active connected entities, distress clusters, grooming on the target, and a timing hint on how long the window stays open.

How hard will this target be to fold into an existing group? Six dimensions: scale, systems, geography, entity complexity, people risk, legal & governance. Outputs band, effort estimate, and recommended integration approach.

Why it helps: For roll-ups and platform buyers: how hard will this target be to fold in? Six-dimension breakdown — scale, systems, geography, entity complexity, people, legal — with an effort estimate and a recommended approach.

Every company gets scored against every saved buyer profile (not just your default). Full reason-by-reason breakdown of what is working for and against the match. Multi-profile strip at a glance.

Why it helps: Every company you view gets scored against every saved buyer profile at once. Full reason-by-reason breakdown — what's working for the match, what's working against — plus a multi-profile strip so you can see which of your theses a target fits best.

Composite ranking for deal-sourcing: readiness × cleanliness × negotiability. Answers the question "if I could only call ten owners this week, who?". Surfaces on every company page and as a preset + sort on search.

Why it helps: If you could only call ten owners this week, who? We score every active company on three axes multiplied together — readiness, cleanliness, negotiability — and surface the hot-call list as a search preset, a sort option, and a card on every company page.

Sector-multiple EBITDA / turnover / NAV estimate range

Why it helps: Range-based enterprise value with confidence tier using sector EBITDA multiples, turnover multiples, or NAV proxy — cites every assumption.

Combined financials across all a director's active companies

Why it helps: Estimated portfolio value and business net worth for each director aggregated across their active companies. Know what someone really controls.

Dissolved-then-successor pairs with evidence

Why it helps: Automatic detection of dissolved-then-successor pairs in a director's history, with name-overlap + time-window evidence.

Radial SVG showing connected companies

Why it helps: Radial graph of every company connected via shared directors, enriched with value, turnover, and status. Click through to any connection.

Going-concern, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party signals

Why it helps: We scan the narrative notes of every filing for going-concern language, audit qualification, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions and director loans — with exact excerpts.

Seller intent, succession, bankability, value trap, covenant pressure, etc.

Why it helps: The full 48-module suite: seller intent, succession risk, bankability, value trap, quiet distress, covenant pressure, extraction monitor, exit routes, improvement thesis, archetype and more.

Postcode density + sector peers

Why it helps: Commercial density of the company's postcode area — active vs dissolved ratio, same-sector peer count, top local sectors.

PSC churn detection, simplification, fragmentation

Why it helps: PSC changes over time: churn, simplification, fragmentation. Strong pre-sale or pre-distress signal.

Specific blockers to an acquisition: ownership uncertainty, multi-lender conflict, insolvency history, high legal friction, audit issues, negative net assets. Verdict: clean / workable / complicated / high-friction / not-transactable.

Estimates capacity for additional secured borrowing. Inputs: existing charges, asset backing, liquidity, lender concentration, filing discipline, distress signals. Output: spare / moderate / stretched / likely overextended with indicative additional debt figure.

Per-section confidence scoring (company record, financials, lenders, directors, PSC, network, filings, notices) so users can trust AI outputs appropriately.

Owner-facing 0-100 score with band (ready-now / light-tidying / needs-work / heavy-lift / not-saleable) and indicative timeline to market.

Full memo via Claude Opus — exec summary, risks, scenarios, offer framing

Why it helps: A full Claude-generated investment memo in 30 seconds: executive summary, positives, risks, financial pressure, three-scenario projection, suggested offer framing, and diligence pack.

Letter of enquiry, diligence questions, offer framing

Why it helps: Letter of enquiry, diligence question list, approach notes and offer framing — all drafted from this specific company's signals, not a template.

AI narrative biography of the company

Why it helps: Financial Times-style narrative biography: origin, leadership journey, financial arc, current positioning. Beats starting a memo from scratch.

Deterministic + AI-generated diligence packs

Why it helps: Specific questions to ask management, triggered by this company's signals (liquidity tight? director nearly 65? charges churning?).

AI agent that deliberately takes the opposing view — bull case, bear case, evidence that contradicts the current verdict, material data gaps, recommended next diligence steps.

Up to 12 ranked actions an owner should take before going to market. Each item shows impact, effort, rationale and a concrete next step.

Anonymous email follow for any UK company — no account needed. Daily or weekly digest emails when filings, charges, director changes, gazette notices or material score shifts occur.

Track up to 5 companies on free tier

Why it helps: Track up to 5 companies on free tier with automatic alert emails when anything changes.

Save/name filter sets with email digest

Why it helps: Save a filter combination, name it, optionally get an email digest when new companies match.

Multi-column financial grid + auto-extract

Why it helps: Wide research grid across every tracked company: cash, turnover, profit, net worth, ratios, opportunity — sortable, comparable, exportable.

Track as many companies as you want

Why it helps: Remove the 5-company free cap. Track as many targets as you want.

Print-optimised memos, outreach, stories

Why it helps: Print-optimised memos, outreach packs and stories — A4 page breaks, clean typography, ready to email.

Export accounts tables + search results

Why it helps: Export financial tables and search results as CSV for your own spreadsheet workflows.

Configure your firm's logo, contact details and accent colour. Every downloadable report picks up your branding.

One-page printable summary: facts, directors, shareholders, group structure.

Full buyer-side memo: opportunity, deal-killers, valuation, scenarios, diligence questions.

Signals, ratios, red flags, covenant pressure, distress, filing-note flags.

Charges table, lender normalisation, outstanding debt summary, debt headroom.

Estimated EV range, sector multiples, assumptions, confidence tier.

Percentile ranking vs peers, with AI market-positioning narrative.

Active/former directors, co-director network, connected companies by value.

Buyer-ready seller-side dossier. Available for claimed companies only.

Logged-in users can add companies they own to a dedicated dashboard with sale-readiness, grooming checklist and VDD room.

One-click buyer-ready dossier: company summary, financial snapshot, directors, shareholders, group structure, security schedule, known issues, filings. Print/export ready.

Remove CompanyCore branding from exports

Why it helps: Remove CompanyCore branding from exports. Your firm's brand on memos and packs sent to clients.

Shared account with team members

Why it helps: Up to 3 team members on a shared account with independent logins.

Phone + live chat + priority email

Why it helps: Phone, live chat and priority email response — typically within the hour during UK business hours.

Your firm's logo on outreach packs

Why it helps: Upload your firm's logo and apply it to every generated document.

Programmatic access to all scoring & intelligence

Why it helps: Programmatic access to scoring, financials, and intelligence. Integrate into your own deal-sourcing tooling.

Export full scored cohorts (up to 100k companies)

Why it helps: Export full scored cohorts up to 100k companies at a time — suited for PE fund deal-sourcing and lender portfolio analysis.

Access underlying factor weights + confidence intervals

Why it helps: Access the underlying factor weights, confidence intervals, and per-factor contributions behind every score.