Plain English on the front. Specialist signal checks behind it.
Five plain-English briefings, director intelligence across 27.8m UK appointments, the wider corporate group mapped from a single company number, distress signals read straight from the register, plus sanctions and PEP screening and full UK coverage — including the FTSE filings most engines silently skip.
Five questions a human actually asks.
The Deep Dive opens with five plain-English briefings — the questions you'd ask a credit analyst over coffee, not the headings on an XBRL tagged element list.
- Q1 · Can they pay their bills next year?
- Q2 · Are they actually making money, or just turning it over?
- Q3 · Who owns and controls the business, really?
- Q4 · Is the filing history clean, or are accounts late / amended?
- Q5 · Where are the red flags hiding in the notes?
Probably yes — but the runway is shorter than last year. Cash dropped from £52m to £41m. Operating cashflow stayed positive at £18m, but capex of £24m means net cash burn. At today's rate, the company has roughly 11 months of liquidity before drawing the £30m revolving facility, which has £18m headroom and matures in 2027.
Director intelligence across 27.8m UK appointments.
Every director on a report is cross-checked against the full Companies House appointments dataset — 27.8 million records covering every director appointment in the UK. Not a sample, not a partial extract.
- Failure-rate score — how often this director's past companies dissolved
- Phoenix detection — newco/oldco patterns with shared addresses
- Cross-company bleed — concurrent appointments at distressed companies
- Co-director network and concurrent-appointment density
- Outlier flags (volume, sectors, micro-entity churn)
- Board-departure alert — when the entire board has resigned
One payment, every entity in the cluster.
When search surfaces a holding company and its subsidiaries — same registered office, same active directors — Group Check runs a Deep Dive on each legal entity and merges them into one consolidated report with roll-up figures and per-company chapters.
Not statutory consolidated accounts — each entity is analysed from its own Companies House filings. Recent Deep Dives on the same entities are reused within 30 days to save cost.
- Detected automatically in company search (up to 6 entities)
- Combined turnover, net assets and cash roll-up
- Full Kimi chapters per subsidiary / related company
- Discounted bundle vs buying N separate Deep Dives
- Holding company detail in the main chapter strip
A business is bigger than one registration.
You searched one company number. We map the business around it — the parent, the subsidiaries, the controlling shareholder, and the sister companies that share directors or a common trustee — and show the evidence behind every link, so you read the whole business, not one legal entity.
- Parent & subsidiaries from the Companies House group hierarchy
- Controlling party straight from the PSC register
- Sister companies via shared directors or a common trustee
- Every link carries its evidence and a confidence tier
- Serial board-sitters filtered out — no phantom groups
We flag a business that's quietly winding down.
Read straight from the register: dissolved, in insolvency, or showing distress — overdue accounts, an underwater balance sheet, or a board that has entirely resigned. Stated as fact, with the basis shown, never as advice. And the large companies that run negative equity by design don't trip the alarm.
- Dissolved & insolvency status, read from Companies House
- Distress signals — overdue accounts, technical insolvency
- Board fully resigned — a classic abandonment marker
- Size-aware — FTSE-scale negative equity isn't false-flagged
Sanctions, PEP & disqualified-director screening.
The company, every PSC and every director is screened against the UK, US and EU sanctions lists, UK and global PEP registers, and the Companies House disqualified-directors register — automatically, on every report, no extra fee. Disqualified-director matches are corroborated on date of birth, so a common name doesn't trigger a false flag.
- UK FCDO consolidated sanctions list
- US OFAC SDN list — incl. aliases & relationship graph
- EU consolidated financial sanctions list
- UK Parliament PEP register (Commons & Lords)
- Global PEPs — heads of state, ministers & close family
- Companies House disqualified-directors register
Four sanity checks on every balance sheet.
If the numbers don't add up, we flag it. Every extraction runs through four checks before it's shown — so you never read a Deep Dive where the BS doesn't balance, the P&L doesn't flow, or working capital silently rebases between years.
We read what other engines silently skip.
Most engines work on tagged iXBRL only — fine for SMEs, useless for the FTSE. We parse PDFs, scanned filings, and group-consolidated accounts with a 5-stage extraction chain so the same Deep Dive works on a one-man Ltd and on Greggs.
| Company | Format | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Marks & Spencer Group plc | Full extract | |
| NEXT plc | Full extract | |
| Apple Retail UK Ltd | iXBRL | Full extract |
| Greggs plc | Full extract | |
| Gymshark Ltd | iXBRL | Full extract |
Seven years of reconciled history.
Snapshots lie. Trends tell the truth. Every Deep Dive restates up to seven years of filed accounts to the same shape, so revenue, margin, cash and net assets all line up on one chart.
| FY | Revenue | Profit | Cash | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY22 | £1.69bn | £26.8m | £114m | 1.6% |
| FY23 | £1.74bn | £35.2m | £139m | 2.0% |
| FY24 | £1.86bn | £42.1m | £162m | 2.3% |
| FY25 | £1.94bn | £48.7m | £181m | 2.5% |
Every number links back to the filing.
Verif-AI doesn't make numbers up. Every figure on every chart links to the line in the source CH filing — so when a stakeholder asks "where did £41m come from?", the answer is one click away.
Built around the things you actually do with company intel.
Watchlist
Star any company. We re-check filings every hour and flag the diff.
Filing alerts
Real-time email the moment a new account or material filing lands at CH.
Weekly digest
Monday-morning email summary across your whole watchlist — score deltas, new filings, sanctions hits.
PDF export
Server-side Playwright PDF of any report — send to internal review or print.
Shareable link
One-click public share — opens the report in Kimi's editorial reader for anyone with the link.
Programmatic API
Same data, headless. Pull companies, officers, PSCs by number — REST, X-API-Key.
One £9.99 Deep Dive. See it all.
Quick Check is free — every report includes the financials, directors and TrustScore. Deep Dive unlocks the AI analysis, director-network intelligence, sanctions screening and the seven-year reconciled history.