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Guides to the UK company register for people who sell to, advise or study new businesses: finding newly registered companies, SIC codes, filing histories, PSC, outreach and the AI analysis behind Lead Forge.
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The register is public, but the people on it are still people. A practical, non-alarmist guide to emailing new companies lawfully: corporate subscribers, legitimate interests and the rules that bite.
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The register uses codes like 'ltd', 'plc', 'llp' and 'private-limited-guarant-nsc'. Here is what each one means, how common it is among new companies and what it tells you about the business.
Krapton Research2 min read
DATA
It is the one address every company must publish. Learning to read it — formation agent, accountant, home or real premises — tells you how far along a company is.
Krapton Research2 min read
PRODUCT
What the model is given, what it is told it does not know, how every sentence is labelled, and why the analysis is cached. A look inside the brief.
Krapton Research3 min read
OUTREACH
Short, specific and grounded in the public record. A structure, three examples, and the mistakes that get founders to hit delete.
Krapton Research3 min read
OUTREACH
They have budget decisions to make, no incumbents to displace, and a founder who is reading every email. The economics of selling to a company in its first ninety days.
Krapton Research3 min read
DATA
Since 2016 every UK company must name the people who own or control it. The PSC register is the fastest way to tell a founder-led start-up from a subsidiary, and to know who you are really writing to.
Krapton Research2 min read
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The filing history is a company's diary written in form codes. Once you can read AA, CS01, AP01 and MR01, you can tell how alive a company is in thirty seconds.
Krapton Research3 min read
GUIDES
A free, well-documented REST API sits behind the UK company register. Here is how to get a key, which endpoints matter for finding new companies, and the limits you will hit.
Krapton Research3 min read
DATA
Standard Industrial Classification codes are the only statement of intended activity on a fresh company record. They are self-declared, unverified and still the most useful filter you have.
Krapton Research3 min read
DATA
The eight-character identifier that never changes, what its prefix tells you about where a company is registered, and why it beats a company name for research.
Krapton Research2 min read
GUIDES
Every working day two to three thousand companies are formed in the UK. Here is where the data lives, how to filter it, and how to turn a list of names into a shortlist worth calling.
Krapton Research3 min read
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