UK Companies House — New Company Leads by SIC & Date

UK company data from the official Companies House API. Look up companies by number or name, or build lists with the advanced search: newly incorporated companies by SIC code, date, status, type and location. Every company comes with its profile: status, type, SIC codes with descriptions, registered office, accounts and confirmation statement dates (and whether they are overdue), charges and insolvency flags, previous names, and optionally its latest filings with links to the accounts PDFs.

No personal data: officers and persons with significant control are never requested, so the data is about companies only.

$2 per 1,000 companies with full profiles. $0.50 per 1,000 for fast advanced-search lists. $1 per 1,000 for filing history (optional). Companies that are not found are free. No API key needed.

Quick start

Press Start with the example input (Tesco PLC and Lloyds Banking Group PLC):

{
  "companyNumbers": ["00445790", "SC095000"]
}

New IT companies incorporated yesterday, every day (schedule the Actor daily):

{
  "sicCodes": ["62012", "62020"],
  "incorporatedFrom": "yesterday",
  "companyStatus": ["active"],
  "maxCompanies": 2000
}

One row per company (a real run, trimmed):

{
  "companyNumber": "00445790",
  "companyName": "TESCO PLC",
  "statusText": "Active",
  "typeText": "Public limited company",
  "incorporatedOn": "1947-11-27",
  "sic": [{"code": "47110", "description": "Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating"}],
  "registeredOfficeText": "Tesco House, Shire Park, Kestrel Way, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1GA, United Kingdom",
  "accounts": {"accountingReferenceDate": "26/02", "lastMadeUpTo": "2026-02-28", "lastTypeText": "Group",
               "nextMadeUpTo": "2027-02-26", "nextDue": "2027-08-26", "overdue": false},
  "confirmationStatement": {"lastMadeUpTo": "2026-06-18", "nextDue": "2027-07-02", "overdue": false},
  "hasCharges": false,
  "hasInsolvencyHistory": false,
  "previousNames": [{"name": "TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY", "from": "1981-12-14", "to": "1983-08-25"}],
  "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00445790",
  "filingCount": 8372,
  "filings": [
    {"date": "2026-09-16", "category": "capital", "type": "SH03", "description": "Purchase of own shares.", "pages": 4}
  ]
}

Use it for

• Lead lists of new companies: every new restaurant, IT consultancy or property company in a town, the day after it is registered. New companies need banks, accountants, insurance, software and websites.
• Due diligence and KYB: is the company active, are accounts or the confirmation statement overdue, has it ever been in insolvency, does it have charges.
• Enrich a CRM: add SIC codes, incorporation date and registered office to a list of UK company numbers.
• Watch for changes: schedule a run on your customers or suppliers and compare status and filing dates.
• AI agents: through the Apify MCP server, an agent can ask "what is the status of company 00445790?".

Input

Field	Default	What it does
companyNumbers		Company numbers (short numbers are padded: 445790 → 00445790)
searchQueries, maxResultsPerSearch	, 5	Company names to look up, best matches first
incorporatedFrom, incorporatedTo		Dates: 2026-10-01, today, yesterday, 7 days ago
sicCodes		SIC 2007 codes, e.g. 62020
companyStatus, companyType		Active, dissolved, liquidation…; Ltd, PLC, LLP…
location, nameIncludes, nameExcludes		Town or postcode area; text in the name
dissolvedFrom, dissolvedTo		For lists of recently dissolved companies
maxCompanies	500	Cap on companies per run
fetchProfiles	true	Off: advanced-search rows only (faster, $0.50 per 1,000)
includeFilingHistory, maxFilingsPerCompany	false, 10	Latest filings with PDF links
apiKey		Optional: your own free Companies House key for large runs

The company status filter on its own is too broad (millions of companies); use it with dates, SIC codes, a name or a location.

Output

Company rows: companyNumber, companyName, status, statusText, statusDetail, type, typeText, subtype, jurisdiction, incorporatedOn, dissolvedOn, sicCodes, sic (code + description), registeredOffice (parts), registeredOfficeText, accounts (accounting reference date, last and next made-up dates, next due, overdue, last accounts type), confirmationStatement, hasCharges, hasInsolvencyHistory, hasBeenLiquidated, isCommunityInterestCompany, previousNames, url, source, and with filing history filingCount and filings (date, category, type, readable description, pages, and documentUrl for accounts).

Rows from the advanced search with Fetch full profiles off have the search fields only: number, name, status, type, incorporation and dissolution dates, SIC codes and registered office.

A company number that does not exist gives a row with error and is not charged. The key-value store record SUMMARY has the totals of the run.

What it costs

Run	Price
1,000 company numbers, full profiles	$2.00
5,000 new companies from the advanced search, list only	$2.50
500 companies with profiles and their last 10 filings	$1.50

You only pay for companies you get. The run stops cleanly at your spending limit.

Good to know

• Data comes straight from the Companies House Public Data API, the same register as the GOV.UK website. Companies House states that it "imposes no rules or requirements on how the information on the public register is used"; you remain responsible for data protection law where it applies.
• Speed: the API allows 600 requests per 5 minutes per key. With full profiles that is about 100 companies a minute (about 60 with filing history). Advanced-search lists without profiles return up to 5,000 companies per request. For very large runs, add your own free API key.
• Officers, persons with significant control and their addresses are never fetched. Filing descriptions about officers say "Appointment of an officer as a director" without the name, and those filings have no document link. "C/O" names are removed from addresses.
• With a shared key, runs pace themselves from Companies House's own rate-limit counters and wait when the limit is reached, so a busy hour can make a run slower, never failed.
• If Companies House refuses to page further through a very large advanced search, the run keeps what it has and the log says so: split the search into shorter date ranges.
• SIC descriptions and filing descriptions come from Companies House's own enumerations, refreshed when the Actor is rebuilt.

FAQ

How do I get only companies registered since my last run? Schedule the Actor daily with Incorporated from = yesterday (or weekly with 7 days ago).

Can I get directors? No. This Actor deliberately leaves out personal data.

Can I download the accounts PDFs? Accounts filings have a documentUrl that opens the PDF on the Companies House website (other documents, such as incorporation papers, name people and are not linked). Pass the links to Document to Markdown to turn accounts into text for LLMs.

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