UK New Companies Tracker by SIC Code & Region

Get the UK companies that are new, changed or removed since your last run, filtered by industry (SIC code), postcode or town, incorporation date and status, straight from the public Companies House register. Schedule it daily and receive only the changes: newly incorporated companies in your sector and area, companies that went into liquidation, and companies that were dissolved. No API key, no code, no setup.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Companies House.

What can you use it for?

• Daily new business leads. Every morning, the companies incorporated in your sector and area since yesterday, ready for your CRM or outreach list. Reach them before your competitors do.
• Watch a market. See who enters and who leaves: new software companies in Manchester, new construction firms in a postcode area, dissolutions in your niche.
• Monitor risk in a sector. Leave Company status empty and you get a changed row with the new status as soon as a company in your filters moves to liquidation, administration or dissolution. (With only Active selected, such a company comes back as removed: it no longer matches your filters.)
• Feed your tools automatically. Send each run's changes to email, Slack, Google Sheets, a webhook or your CRM with Apify integrations.
• One-off searches too. Leave tracking off and you get a normal search: every company that matches, in one table.

What you get

Output of a tracking run (SIC code 62012, Cambridge, active, incorporated since July 2026). One row per new, changed or removed company:

[
    {
        "schemaVersion": "company-registry/v1",
        "country": "GB",
        "registry": "Companies House",
        "registrationNumber": "17495204",
        "name": "BOTHY SYSTEMS LTD",
        "status": "active",
        "statusDetail": "Active",
        "legalForm": "Private limited company",
        "legalFormCode": "ltd",
        "incorporationDate": "2026-10-02",
        "dissolutionDate": null,
        "registeredAddress": "51 Queensway, Cambridge, CB2 8AY, United Kingdom",
        "addressLine1": "51 Queensway",
        "addressLine2": null,
        "postalCode": "CB2 8AY",
        "city": "Cambridge",
        "region": null,
        "addressCountry": "United Kingdom",
        "activityCodes": ["62012"],
        "activityDescriptions": ["Business and domestic software development"],
        "activityScheme": "UK SIC 2007",
        "sourceUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17495204",
        "retrievedAt": "2026-10-16T20:33:31.409Z",
        "changeType": "new",
        "changeDetectedAt": "2026-10-16T20:33:31.150Z",
        "changedFields": [],
        "previousValues": null
    }
]

Field	Description
registrationNumber	Companies House company number
name	Registered company name
status	Simple status: active, insolvent, dissolved or unknown
statusDetail	Status in Companies House wording, e.g. Liquidation, In Administration
legalForm, legalFormCode	Legal form, e.g. Private limited company (ltd), Limited liability partnership (llp)
incorporationDate, dissolutionDate	Dates as YYYY-MM-DD
registeredAddress	Full registered office address on one line
addressLine1, addressLine2, postalCode, city, region, addressCountry	The same address split into columns
activityCodes, activityDescriptions	SIC codes with their official descriptions
sourceUrl	The company's page on the public register
retrievedAt	When the record was retrieved
changeType, changeDetectedAt	Tracking only: new, changed or removed, and when the change was found
changedFields, previousValues	Tracking only: which columns changed, and their values in the previous run
schemaVersion, country, registry, activityScheme	Fixed columns of the standard company-registry v1 layout

Company data only. No directors, shareholders or personal contact details: this Actor never requests them.

The columns follow one standard layout (company-registry v1), designed to stay the same for other national company registers. Download the results as Excel, CSV, JSON, XML or HTML, or pull them in via the Apify API, Zapier, Make or Google Sheets.

Data source and licence. The data comes from Companies House. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Schedule it daily: only what is new

Turn on Only new or changed since the last run and the Actor remembers what it has already shown you, per combination of filters:

• First run: saves a baseline of everything that matches. Nothing is delivered and nothing is charged.
• Every next run: returns only companies that are new, changed (name, status, address or SIC codes) or removed (no longer match your filters, for example after dissolution). Each row has changeType (new, changed or removed) and changeDetectedAt; changed rows also list changedFields and previousValues.
• No changes: the run finishes with an empty dataset and costs only the small start fee. You pay per delivered change, never for companies you have already seen.

How to schedule it in Apify:

1. Fill in the input, turn on Only new or changed since the last run and click Save as a new task.
2. Open Schedules, click Create new, pick a time (for example every day at 07:00) and add your task.
3. Optional: on the task's Integrations tab, send each run's results to email, Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook.

The memory is a named key-value store companies-house-uk-watch in your own Apify account, with one record per input combination. It only holds the companies you were shown. To start over with a new baseline, delete that record.

Tip: keep each tracked search under 10,000 matching companies (the most one search can return), for example by adding a town or an incorporation date. If a search matches more, the run says so in its final message. Removed companies are only reported after a complete scan, so a run that was cut short never reports false removals.

How much does it cost?

You pay per delivered company: $2.50 per 1,000 companies (pay-per-event). A list of 200 companies costs $0.50.

• Tracking: the first run (baseline) delivers nothing and charges nothing. After that you pay only for new, changed or removed companies. A run without changes costs only the small start fee.
• You are only charged for valid companies that land in your dataset. Searches without matches and failed requests are never charged.
• Set a maximum cost per run in the run options. The run stops cleanly when that budget is reached.
• Set Maximum results to cap the size of a run.

Built to be reliable

• Straight from the register. Data is read live through the Companies House public data API, not scraped from web pages. Website redesigns don't break it.
• Fast. A filtered list of 1,000 companies takes seconds.
• Checks that the data is real. Every record is validated (company number, name, dates, address). An empty or broken answer is retried and reported, never charged.
• Fair use built in. Requests are paced well below the Companies House rate limit. If Companies House asks to slow down, the run pauses instead of pushing on.
• Honest results. If nothing matches your filters, the run says so clearly and costs nothing.
• Clear error report. Every run saves a RUN_SUMMARY with the number of companies and any failed requests per cause: proxy, rate limit, blocked, network or other.

How to use it

1. Fill in at least one of SIC codes, Postcode or town, Incorporated from/to or Company name contains. Company status narrows the search further.
2. Set Maximum results.
3. Click Start and download your list when the run finishes (usually within seconds).

Not sure which SIC code you need? Search the official SIC code list of Companies House.

Input

Field	Default	Description
Company name contains	empty	Only companies whose name contains this text
SIC codes	empty	5-digit UK SIC 2007 codes; a company matches if it has any of them
Postcode or town	empty	Text in the registered office address, e.g. London, Leeds or M1 (see the FAQ on town names)
Incorporated from / to	empty	Incorporation date range
Company status	all	e.g. Active, Dissolved, Liquidation, In administration
Maximum results	100	Stop after this many companies (max 10,000 per search)
Only new or changed since the last run	off	Return only new, changed or removed companies (see "Schedule it daily")
Your own Companies House API key (optional)	empty	Not needed. Heavy users can add their own free key for a separate rate limit

At least one filter is required: company name, SIC code, postcode or town, or an incorporation date (status alone is not enough).

Example input:

{
    "sicCodes": ["10710"],
    "location": "London",
    "incorporatedFrom": "2024-01-01",
    "status": ["active"],
    "maxResults": 50
}

FAQ

Do I need a Companies House API key? No. The Actor works out of the box. If you run very large or very frequent jobs, you can add your own free key from the Companies House developer hub to get your own rate limit.

How many companies can one search return? Up to 10,000. This Actor is built for targeted searches: combine SIC codes, a town or postcode, dates and status to get exactly the companies you need.

Why do I see companies from another town? Postcode or town is a text search in the registered office address, the way Companies House searches it. Cambridge also finds 2 Cambridge Road, Barking. Check the city and postalCode columns, or use a postcode area such as CB1 for a tighter match.

How fresh is the data? It is read live from the register at the moment of your run.

Why are there no directors or e-mail addresses? By design: this Actor only collects company data, no personal data.

Is this legal? The Companies House register is public, and this Actor reads it through the Companies House public data API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. You remain responsible for how you use the data, for example under UK GDPR and direct marketing rules.

Is this an official Companies House service? No. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Companies House.

A run returned fewer companies than expected. Open RUN_SUMMARY in the run's storage: it shows how many requests failed and why.

Something is broken or missing? Open an issue on the Issues tab. We usually reply within a few working days.