UK Director Search - Companies House Officers

UK Director Search

UK Director Search is a Companies House director lookup: search a director by name and get every company appointment (active and resigned), with company, status, role and dates.

Best for: KYB and due diligence, merchant onboarding, investigating a director's other businesses, and B2B research.

How to search Companies House for a director

1. Add director names to Director names (names).
2. Paste your free Companies House API key (without one, you get free demo data).
3. Click Start and confirm identity using birth month/year and address.

How it works

Uses the official Companies House REST API (search/officers, then officers/{id}/appointments). The same name can belong to different people, so confirm identity with the birth month/year and address.

Output

query, officerName, officerId, birthYear, totalAppointments, activeAppointments, appointments, demoData

Pricing (pay-per-event)

• officer-found: $0.005 per result ($5 / 1,000). Platform usage is included; you pay only for results.
• Example: 10,000 officers found cost $50.00.

Example input

{
  "names": [
    "Jane Example"
  ],
  "maxOfficersPerName": 3
}

Example output

Values below are illustrative.

{
  "query": "Jane Example",
  "officerName": "Jane EXAMPLE",
  "officerId": "abc123",
  "birthYear": 1980,
  "totalAppointments": 2,
  "activeAppointments": 1,
  "appointments": [
    {
      "companyNumber": "00000001",
      "companyName": "EXAMPLE TRADING LIMITED",
      "role": "director"
    }
  ],
  "demoData": false
}

Use it via API, schedules and integrations

Run it in Apify Console, or call it from your own code with the Apify API or the Python and JavaScript clients. Save an input as a task and add a schedule to run it regularly, and send results to Slack, email, webhooks, Zapier, Make or n8n with Apify integrations. AI agents can find and run it through the Apify MCP server.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("sterlingverify/uk-director-search").call(run_input={"names": ["Jane Example"], "companiesHouseApiKey": "YOUR_COMPANIES_HOUSE_KEY"})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Use in Clay, Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream, Power Automate or Activepieces

All of them connect to Apify through their official Apify integrations, using your own Apify account: an API token from Apify Console > Settings > API & Integrations, or Apify sign-in for Power Automate. Runs bill to your Apify account at this Actor's pay-per-event price.

• Clay: save this Actor's input as an Apify task and copy it as JSON. In your Clay table, add the Run Apify Actor enrichment, choose it and paste the JSON into Input Data, mapping Clay columns into the fields. To pull a finished run into a new table, use the Import data from Apify Actor source.
• Zapier: use the Apify Run Actor action, or the Finished Actor run trigger followed by Fetch dataset items. Synchronous runs in Zapier stop after 30 seconds, so use the trigger for big batches.
• Make: add the Apify Run an Actor module with Run synchronously set to Yes, then Get Dataset Items with the run's dataset ID. For longer runs, use the Watch Actor Runs trigger.
• n8n: install the Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify, or search "Apify" on n8n Cloud) and use Run an Actor and get dataset.
• Pipedream: add the Apify app's Run Actor action, or Run Task Synchronously on one of this Actor's public example tasks (or your own saved task) to get the dataset items back in one step. For big batches, start from the New Finished Actor Run or New Finished Task Run trigger, then Get Dataset Items.
• Power Automate: add the Apify connector (a premium connector, currently in preview) and sign in with your Apify account. Use Run Actor with Enter custom value set to sterlingverify/uk-director-search and paste the input as JSON, then Get dataset items with the run's default dataset ID. For big batches, start the flow from the Actor run finished trigger instead.
• Activepieces: add the Apify piece and use Run Actor, or Run Task on one of this Actor's public example tasks (or your own saved task), then Get Dataset Items. For scheduled or big batches, use the Watch Actor Runs or Watch Task Runs trigger.
• Google Drive / Sheets: add Apify's Upload results to GDrive integration to a scheduled task to drop each run's CSV or XLSX into your team's Drive, or chain the Google Sheets Import & Export actor to append rows to a sheet.
• Slack alerts: add Apify's Slack integration to a scheduled task to post each run's results to your team channel, or start a check from Slack with /apify call and your task ID.
• Any HTTP tool or script: send one request and get the results back as JSON. Runs must finish within 5 minutes.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sterlingverify~uk-director-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @input.json

FAQ

Do I need an API key?

Yes, a free Companies House API key. Without one the Actor returns bundled demo data, which is not charged. Companies House rate limits (600 requests / 5 min) apply.

Is every result the same person?

Not necessarily. The same name can belong to different people, so confirm identity with the birth month/year and address.

Disclaimer

Contains public sector information from Companies House licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Not affiliated with Companies House. Results support due diligence and are not legal advice; verify important decisions against the official register. You supply your own free API key; Companies House rate limits (600 requests / 5 min) apply. Personal data: process it only for a lawful purpose under UK GDPR (e.g. due diligence).

Related sterlingVerify tools

Part of the sterlingVerify UK payments, KYB and data toolkit on Apify Store:

• UK Company Check: Companies House, VAT and UK sanctions KYB check in one call
• UK Sanctions Screener: fuzzy screening against the UK Sanctions List (FCDO)
• EU VAT Number Validator (VIES): bulk EU VAT number checks against VIES
• Merchant Website Compliance Checker for Onboarding: onboarding review of a merchant's website