UK Companies House Search: new UK companies by SIC code, date and location

Get lists of UK companies straight from Companies House: filter by SIC code, incorporation date (e.g. the last 7 days), company name, registered-office location, status and company type. Perfect for new-business lead lists, market monitoring and KYB pre-checks. No API key, no login, no proxy: one search returns up to 5,000 companies in a few seconds.

Sample output (real run, default input: software companies incorporated in the last 7 days)

Company	Number	Incorporated	Primary SIC	Postcode district
HORNECRAFT LTD	17526830	2026-10-17	62012 Business and domestic software development	WC2H
KITWRITE STUDIO LTD	17526785	2026-10-17	62012 Business and domestic software development	SW15
CONEST LABS LIMITED	17526770	2026-10-17	58290 Other software publishing
LIGHT IS A WAVE LTD	17526851	2026-10-17	58210 Publishing of computer games
TRIDENT LABS LTD	17526762	2026-10-17	58290 Other software publishing

One full row:

{
  "companyNumber": "17526830",
  "companyName": "HORNECRAFT LTD",
  "status": "active",
  "companyType": "ltd",
  "companyTypeLabel": "Private limited company",
  "companySubtype": null,
  "incorporatedOn": "2026-10-17",
  "ageDays": 0,
  "dissolvedOn": null,
  "registeredOn": "2026-10-17",
  "sicCodes": [
    "62012"
  ],
  "sicDescriptions": [
    "Business and domestic software development"
  ],
  "primarySicCode": "62012",
  "primarySicDescription": "Business and domestic software development",
  "postcode": "WC2H 9JQ",
  "postcodeArea": "WC",
  "postcodeDistrict": "WC2H",
  "country": "United Kingdom",
  "companyUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17526830"
}

Use cases

• New-company leads: every new restaurant (56101), consultancy (70229), e-commerce shop (47910) or software company (62012) registered this week. Accountants, banks, insurers, web agencies and payroll providers use this to reach new businesses first.
• Market monitoring: count incorporations per SIC code and month.
• Competitor / sector watch: companies whose name includes a keyword (e.g. "ai", "solar", "care").
• Insolvency watch: companies in liquidation or administration in your sector.
• Daily feed: schedule it daily with daysBack: 1 and send new rows to Google Sheets, Slack or a webhook.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
sicCodes	["62012","62020"]	5-digit SIC 2007 codes
daysBack	7	Incorporated in the last N days
incorporatedFrom / incorporatedTo	2026-09-01	Exact dates instead of daysBack
companyNameIncludes	ai
location	Manchester	Registered-office town, county or postcode
statuses	["active"]	active, dissolved, liquidation, administration...
companyTypes	["ltd"]	ltd, plc, llp...
maxItems	50	Newest first, up to 5,000

Output fields

companyNumber, companyName, status, companyType, companyTypeLabel, companySubtype, incorporatedOn, ageDays, dissolvedOn, registeredOn, sicCodes, sicDescriptions, primarySicCode, primarySicDescription, postcode, postcodeArea, postcodeDistrict, country, companyUrl.

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read through the API.

Use from an AI agent (API or MCP)

Add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=sefran1/uk-companies-house-search to Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client. Or call the API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sefran1~uk-companies-house-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"sicCodes":["56101"],"daysBack":30,"location":"London","maxItems":500}'

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.0025 per company ($2.50 per 1,000). No subscription. A search that finds nothing finishes successfully with an empty dataset and costs only the tiny start fee (nothing is charged per result).

Privacy, data source and limits

• Company-level data only. No officers, directors or persons with significant control. The registered office is reduced to postcode and country, because many small companies use a home address.
• Source: the public Companies House register, via the "Advanced company search" export on find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Companies House register information is public and free to reuse; check the official record before relying on a result.
• Companies House exports at most 5,000 matches per search. Split large searches by date range.
• Not affiliated with Companies House.