Companies House Officers API — UK Director Lookup
Every UK company must register the people responsible for it. This source returns that list from Companies House: names, roles, correspondence addresses and the dates they were appointed, with resignations where they apply.
- You send
- A UK company number
- You get back
- The officer list with roles, addresses and appointment dates
- Coverage
- United Kingdom — entities on Companies House.
- Price
- 5 pts — $5 per 1,000
- Charged only when the record resolves. A lookup that finds nothing is not billed.
Ways to get this data
Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.
| Approach | What it takes | Cost | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Companies House directly | Register for a key and call the officers endpoint separately from the company profile | Usually free, sometimes per-document | A different interface, language and data shape for every country you add |
| Collecting it yourself | Build and host a crawler per register, then keep each one alive | Infrastructure and maintenance | Registers change their pages without warning, and nobody is on the hook when yours breaks |
| NeuralVerge | One request, the same shape as every other source in the catalog | $5 per 1,000, misses not billed | Covers United Kingdom — other countries are separate sources with the same request format |
What you get back
Every field the response returns.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
officers | array | Every current and former officer of the company. |
officers[].name | string | Full name of the officer. |
officers[].role | string | Director, secretary and so on. |
officers[].status | string | Active or resigned. |
officers[].appointed_on | string | Date of appointment. |
officers[].resigned_on | string | Date of resignation, where it applies. |
officers[].date_of_birth | string | Month and year only, as the register publishes it. |
officers[].nationality | string | Nationality of the officer. |
officers[].country_of_residence | string | Where the officer resides. |
officers[].occupation | string | Stated occupation. |
officers[].correspondence_address | object | Street, locality, region, postal code and country. |
Every source answers in the same shape: a session id, a readable human summary, a structured machine object and the points the call consumed. Learn it once and it holds across every source in the catalog.
How to run it
The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.
A JSON schema passed as extract_schema_json pins the response shape, which is why one endpoint serves every register in the catalog — only the URL and the schema change. The Get API Code button in the app hands you the complete command with the schema already filled in.
curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-extract \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08804411/officers",
"instructions": "Extract data from Companies House",
"settings": {
"country_code": "us",
"extract_schema_json": "{ ... }"
}
}'What teams use it for
Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.
Identify the natural persons behind a counterparty before you contract with it.
Find companies that share directors and draw the network they sit in.
Target by legal role rather than by a job title someone chose for themselves.
A sudden run of resignations is a signal worth catching early.
Coverage, freshness and limits
What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.
United Kingdom — entities on Companies House.
Read at request time, so the answer reflects the register as it stands when you ask.
Companies House is a public register. Every response carries the source URL it was read from and a session id you can trace.
- —Officers are people and companies as the register holds them — this is not a staff directory.
- —Correspondence addresses are often the registered office rather than a home address, by design.
- —Historical officers appear only where the register still publishes them.
Questions, answered
Officers are the people legally responsible for running the company — directors and secretaries. Persons with significant control are the people who own or control it. They overlap often but not always, and the Companies House company source returns both.
Related sources
Try companies house officers on your own data
One request format across every source in the catalog.