UK Companies House Leads — Filing Signals & AI Outreach

Turn the UK Companies House public register into a scored, AI-ready B2B lead list. Search by SIC code, location, status, and incorporation date, then get each company scored HOT/WARM/COLD based on real filing activity — funding raised, leadership changes, and how recently it was incorporated — with a personalised email, LinkedIn message, and SMS generated for every lead worth contacting.

Why this instead of a raw Companies House scraper

Most Companies House actors on Apify return the same raw record: name, address, SIC codes, officers. That data is free from the official API — the value is in knowing which companies to actually contact, and why.

This actor derives real buying-intent signals from a company's filing history:

• FUNDING_SIGNAL — an SH01 (allotment of shares) was filed recently → fresh capital raised, likely hiring/spending on new tools and services
• LEADERSHIP_GROWTH — a new director or secretary was appointed recently → the business is expanding its leadership team
• LEADERSHIP_DEPARTURE — a director or secretary resigned recently → possible restructuring, interim leadership or recruitment need
• NEW_INCORPORATION — the company was formed recently → needs company formation services, business banking, accountancy, insurance

Every lead gets a HOT/WARM/COLD score from these signals, and — if you provide an AI key — a one-sentence explanation of why it's a good target plus ready-to-send outreach copy grounded in the real signal (not a generic template).

What you get per lead

• Full company profile: name, number, type, status, incorporation date, SIC codes, registered location
• Director name (most senior active officer)
• PSC (persons with significant control) count
• Filing-signal lead score + the specific signals detected
• AI intent summary and likely B2B needs (optional, bring your own Anthropic or Gemini key)
• Personalised email, LinkedIn message, and SMS template (optional, same AI step)

Input

Field	Description
companiesHouseApiKey	Required. Free — register at developer.companieshouse.gov.uk
sicCodes	Comma-separated UK SIC codes to filter by, e.g. 62012,70229
location	Registered office location filter, e.g. Manchester
companyStatus	Company status filter — defaults to active only
incorporatedFrom / incorporatedTo	Date range for incorporation date
maxResults	How many companies to process (free trial capped at 8)
signalWindowDays	How far back to look for funding/leadership/incorporation signals (default 180 days)
anthropicApiKey / geminiApiKey	Optional — enables AI intent analysis and outreach generation
yourName, yourBusiness, yourService, yourEmail, yourPhone	Optional — personalises the generated outreach

Delivery options: email (SMTP, CSV attachment), webhook (JSON or CSV, bulk or per-record), Slack summary, HubSpot contact push.

How it works

1. Searches the official Companies House Advanced Search API against your filters
2. For each match, fetches the company profile, officers, filing history, and PSC list
3. Derives signals from the filing history and scores the lead
4. For non-COLD leads with an AI key set, generates an intent summary and 3 outreach messages in a single LLM call
5. Saves one record per company to the dataset, with optional delivery to email/webhook/Slack/HubSpot

Notes

• All data comes from the official UK government Companies House API — no scraping, no blocking, no CAPTCHAs.
• Rate-limited internally to stay under Companies House's 600 requests/5 minutes cap, so large runs won't hit 429s.
• AI is optional. Without a key, you still get the full company data and filing-signal lead score — just no AI summary or outreach copy.