# Companies House

Public UK registry evidence — legal identity, company status, accounts disclosure, and statutory financial lines when filings allow.

_Data source — Companies House signals Propensify detects: UK legal identity, registry status, accounts disclosure, and statutory financial lines when filings allow._

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## Two questions we ask of the filing

1. **Do they legally exist here?** — Registry identity and status language — a UK company on the register, not a credit score.
2. **Is there distress language in the filing?** — Going-concern notes, winding-up, overdue accounts as language in the document — not a new distress card wall.

No filing in this pass is unknown — not that the company is empty.

## Identity is a gate. Depth is prioritization.

### Identity

A verified UK company number bound to the prospect — or an honest miss / ambiguity.

### Depth

Whether accounts filings exist, how rich disclosure looks, and which statutory lines we could parse.

## How Companies House evidence stacks

Three rungs — bind the entity, judge disclosure, then read numbers only when they’re likely to exist.

1. **Identity** — Verified UK company
2. **Filings** — Disclosure gate
3. **Statutory numbers** — Parsed lines when present

- **Always useful:** Entity bind + registry status — cheap and decisive.
- **Disclosure filter:** Skip dead-end micro filings before a deep document pull.
- **Magnitudes when earned:** Turnover, employees, and balance-sheet lines only when parse succeeds.

## Entity & registry status

Can we safely bind a UK Companies House identity — and what does the register say about it?

Incorporation age and SIC footprint can attach to a verified entity for filters — we don’t invent “startup / mature” bands on this page.

## Identity States

- **Verified:** Safe UK company number bound to the prospect.
- **Not found:** No safe UK bind — not “illegitimate worldwide.”
- **Ambiguous:** Candidates exist; none safe to bind.

## Status States

- **Active:** Register shows active — registry state only.
- **Dissolved:** Closed-class status — confirm before treating as trading.
- **Insolvency:** Insolvency-class status on the register.
- **Other / unclear:** Non-canonical or missing status — inspect before hard gates.

## Overdue Card

Accounts overdue

Next accounts marked overdue on the profile — filing clock, not insolvency.

## Filings & disclosure

Whether a document-ready accounts filing exists, and how rich that filing looks before any numbers are parsed.

Filing found ≠ turnover known. Disclosure class decides whether a document pull is worth it.

## Filing Footprint

- **Accounts filing found:** Latest accounts filing with document metadata selected.
- **None found:** No selectable accounts document under current filters.

## Disclosure class

How rich the selected accounts filing looks — before any numbers are parsed.

_Richer → thinner_

- **Rich disclosure:** Outside the low-disclosure set — magnitudes may be worth parsing.
- **Low disclosure:** Micro / dormant-style class — P&L often absent.
- **Unknown:** Type unclassified — don’t assume richness.

## Filing Flags

- **Paper-filed:** Digital extract less likely; OCR/PDF paths may fail closed.
- **Amended:** Amended accounts may supersede an earlier filing for the period.

## Statutory numbers

When disclosure allows, we parse the accounts document into statutory observations — and we say clearly when numbers weren’t available.

Other statutory lines attach as magnitudes when present — we don’t invent size bands from them.

## Parse Outcomes

- **Financials observed:** At least one numeric line parsed from the selected accounts.
- **Low-disclosure skipped:** Filing class skipped before document fetch — saves a dead pull.
- **No filing:** No selectable accounts document to parse.
- **Document unavailable:** Filing meta existed; document content couldn’t be retrieved.
- **Parse empty:** Document obtained; no numeric fields extracted (common on paper/PDF).

## Headline Lines

- **Turnover disclosed:** Revenue line present — not profitability or buying power.
- **Employees disclosed:** Statutory average employees — not live headcount confirmation.
- **Net assets disclosed:** Equity / net assets observation — balance sheet only.

## Also Available Chips

- Cash
- Gross profit
- Profit before tax
- Inventories
- Debtors
- Creditors (≤1yr)
- Tangible fixed assets
- Total fixed assets
- Total assets

## What it looks like in a verified fit

Companies House evidence lands as findings on the account — with the same Fit and Signals score grammar as the product.

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## Findings

- **UK entity verified**
- **Rich accounts disclosure**
- **Turnover disclosed**

## Boundaries & method

- UK Companies House only — absence is not “no legal entity worldwide.”
- Registry status is not commercial activity or buying intent.
- Accounts overdue is profile filing metadata — not an insolvency verdict.
- Filing metadata is not parsed financials; magnitudes require a successful document parse.
- Low-disclosure classes often omit P&L/turnover; we may skip the document pull on purpose.
- Paper-filed / PDF text paths can yield “document obtained, numbers unavailable” — we fail closed.
- Statutory averages and GBP lines are observations — not credit scores or “can they afford us.”
- Officers, parent-group escalation, and keyword narrative stay in deeper research — this guide covers the public-register ladder.

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