UK Companies House

Find UK companies by name using the Companies House search engine. Returns matches with company number, name, current status, incorporation date, and registered office. Call this first when the user mentions a company by name — the returned company_number is the key required b...

Find company officers (directors, secretaries, LLP members) by name. Returns matches with an opaque officer_id, the officer's name, and a sample appointment. Call this when the user asks about an individual by name; the returned officer_id feeds ``get_officer_appointments`` to...

Find officers on the public register of disqualified UK company directors. Use this to check whether a named person has been banned from acting as a director. The returned officer_id can be passed to ``get_natural_officer_disqualification`` (for humans) or ``get_corporate_offi...

Browse UK companies alphabetically starting from a given name prefix. Results are ordered by company name, not by relevance. Prefer ``search_companies`` for fuzzy/ranked matching; use this only when the user explicitly wants alphabetical ordering (e.g. "list companies starting...

Find companies that have been dissolved (no longer on the live register) by name. Returns matches with company number, previous names, and dates of incorporation and dissolution. Use this when the user is researching a company that may have been struck off or liquidated. For c...

Search UK companies with structured filters (name tokens, status, type, SIC, location). Prefer this over ``search_companies`` when the user wants to narrow by multiple criteria (e.g. "active PLCs in Manchester with SIC 62020"). All filters are optional; at least one filter sho...

Fetch the full Companies House profile for a UK company. Returns registered name, status, company type, incorporation/dissolution dates, registered office, accounting reference dates, SIC codes, and previous names. This is usually the first call after you have a company_number...

Report where a company holds each of its statutory registers. Indicates, per register type (directors, secretaries, members, PSCs, LLP members, usual residential addresses), whether the register is kept at Companies House or at the company's Single Alternative Inspection Locat...

List UK establishments (branches) of an overseas-incorporated company. Only applies to overseas companies (``company_type`` = ``oversea-company``) that have registered one or more establishments in the UK. Returns ``None`` for purely UK-incorporated companies.

List the officers currently or formerly appointed at a specific company. Covers directors, secretaries, and LLP members. Each entry carries an ``appointment_id`` (scoped to this company) and an ``officer_id`` (the person's global identifier) that can be passed to ``get_officer...

List every company appointment (current and past) held by a given officer. Use this after ``search_officers`` or ``get_officer_list`` to see the full directorship history of a person across the entire UK register. Each entry includes the company number, the role, and appointme...

Fetch the full disqualification order for an officer. One tool covers both disqualification variants: - ``natural-disqualification`` for human directors — returns reasons, date ranges, nationality, any permission-to-act grants, and prior variations. - ``corporate-disqualificat...

List the persons with significant control (PSCs) declared for a company. PSCs are the individuals or entities that ultimately own or control the company (typically >25% of shares, >25% of voting rights, or right to appoint directors). Each entry's ``kind`` field indicates the...

List PSC statements recorded against a company. Statements are formal declarations about PSC status rather than concrete PSCs (e.g. "the company has no registrable person with significant control", "investigation ongoing"). Complements ``get_company_psc_list`` — a company may...

Fetch the full record for a single person with significant control (PSC). This single tool covers every PSC variant (individual, corporate-entity, legal-person, super-secure, plus their beneficial-owner counterparts). Dispatch is driven by the ``kind`` argument — **copy it str...

List all registered charges (security interests over assets) for a company. A charge is a form of security granted to a lender against company assets (mortgages, debentures, fixed/floating charges). Use when assessing the company's debt exposure or encumbrances. Returns ``None...

Fetch full details of a single charge registered against a company. Returns the charge's classification, particulars, secured details, persons entitled, transactions (creation, amendment, satisfaction), and any associated insolvency cases. Use after ``get_company_charges`` wit...

List a company's filing history — every document submitted to Companies House. Covers the full statutory history: incorporation, accounts, confirmation statements (formerly annual returns), officer appointments and resignations, address changes, share capital changes, resoluti...

Fetch insolvency proceedings (liquidation, administration, CVA, etc.) for a company. Returns ``None`` for the vast majority of companies. Populated when the company has been or is subject to formal insolvency: liquidation, receivership, administration, company voluntary arrang...

Fetch any exemptions granted to a company from certain filing requirements. Exemptions typically apply to PSC-register obligations for companies whose shares are admitted to trading on certain regulated markets, or to disclosure-and-transparency-rules exemptions. Returns ``Non...

Fetch metadata for a single filed document (PDF, JSON, XML, …). Returns the document's identifiers, page count, filename, filing category, and a ``resources`` map keyed by MIME type showing the content-length and timestamps for each representation the API can serve. Use the ma...

Return a downloadable URL for a single filed Companies House document. The tool itself does not transfer bytes — it returns a short-lived HTTP URL (~10 minutes) pointing at this server's own ``/documents/{signed_token}`` route. Fetching the URL streams the raw document with th...