UK Company Public Record
3 credits / callEverything the public record says about a UK company, joined and read, in one call.
The Companies House record, distress signals, directors' and PSCs' ID verification against the deadline, the payment-practices record, public contracts won, the gender pay gap, Environment Agency registrations and the UK Sanctions List, joined on the company number, with the three things most worth knowing first.
Before you give a company credit, sign it as a supplier or take it on as a customer, the answers are public, but they're spread across the Companies House profile, its insolvency and charges records, the officers and PSC registers, the payment-practices reports, public contracts (Contracts Finder and Find a Tender), gender pay gap reports, the Environment Agency's registers and the UK Sanctions List. Nobody joins them. This endpoint does: one company number in; the registry facts, the register's distress signals graded and dated, whether its directors and PSCs show a verified identity against its deadline, and (for large companies) how fast it pays its suppliers, ranked. The three things most worth knowing come first.
what you’d build with it
Know your customer, for small firms
One call before you extend credit or send the first invoice to a new customer.
Supplier due diligence
A procurement check that covers insolvency, filings, ID verification and payment record in one pass.
Accountants and advisers
A client or counterparty's whole public record, summarised, for the file.
example response
{
"company": { "name": "GREGGS PLC", "number": "00502851", "status": "active", "type": "plc", "incorporatedOn": "1951-12-29", "sicCodes": ["10710", "47240"], "registeredOffice": "Greggs House, Quorum Business Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE12 8BU, United Kingdom", "accounts": { "nextDue": "2027-06-30", "overdue": false }, "confirmationStatement": { "nextDue": "2027-04-28", "overdue": false } },
"level": "clear",
"knowFirst": [
"Nothing on the Companies House register suggests trouble: no insolvency record, filings up to date.",
"It reports paying suppliers in 34 days on average (median large company: 31), with 6% paid later than agreed terms."
],
…Abbreviated. The full example, every endpoint and runnable code are in the implementation guide above; the integration pack downloads beside it. No account needed to read any of it.
Why developers pick it
The join nobody sells
Seven public sources (Companies House, Payment Practices, Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Gender Pay Gap, the Environment Agency, the UK Sanctions List), one company number, one answer. Each part reads exactly as our standalone APIs do.
What matters, first
The three things most worth knowing, ranked: serious signals, then deadlines, then patterns.
By number, never by name
A similarly named company never gets caught up in someone else's record.
Worded as the records show it
Facts with dates and sources, never verdicts about people; disclaimered and attributed.
Terms & disclaimer. Provided “as is” with no warranty. Results are derived from public sources and, in places, generated by AI — they may be inaccurate or out of date and are not legal, professional or credit advice. Company data contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; the Registers API contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right, used under the Environment Agency Conditional Licence. Any logos returned remain the trademarks of their owners (nominative/identification use only, no endorsement implied). Any scores or ratings are an indicative opinion, not a statement of fact about a company. You are responsible for your own use. See the full API Terms of Use or get in touch.