How do I get the full profile?

Pass the registration_number to Companies House company, which returns officers, charges, SIC codes and filing dates.

How many results can I get?

Set max_items. You are billed for the records actually returned.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a lookup cost?

1 point per returned record, which is $1 per 1,000, and only records that come back are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance, so there is no separate per-country contract.

Corporate registry

UK Company Search (Companies House) API and MCP — Find Companies by Name

Send a name and get back matching UK companies: company number, name, status, registered address, incorporation date and a link to the record on Companies House. Set max_items to decide how many come back.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: a company name
You get back: matching UK companies with company number, status, registered address, incorporation date and a link to each record
Coverage: United Kingdom — entities on Companies House.
Price: 1 point per returned record — $1 per 1,000; Billed per record actually returned, capped by max_items. A request that returns nothing costs nothing.

Comparison

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	Type the name into Companies House and read the results	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	$1 per 1,000, misses not billed	Covers United Kingdom — other countries are separate sources with the same request format

Response

What you get back

Every field in the example response below.

Field	Type	Description
`session_id`	string	Id of this run, for tracing.
`kind`	string	Source type of the response.
`keyword`	string	The search text you sent.
`max_items`	number	The cap you set on returned records.
`start_page`	number	Results page the search started from.
`partial`	boolean	Whether the result set is incomplete.
`human`	string	Readable summary with the number of results and matches found.
`total_points`	number	Points charged: one per returned record.
`machine.total_items`	number	Records returned in this batch.
`machine.first_item`	object	The first returned record, same shape as one entry of items.
`machine.items[]`	array	The returned records.
`machine.total_found`	number	Matches the register reports for the search; null when it does not report one.
`machine.page_count`	number	Result pages read.
`machine.blocked`	boolean	Whether the register refused the request.
`machine.proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Size of the data transferred for the run, in bytes.
`machine.items[].registration_number`	string	Company number.
`machine.items[].name`	string	Company name.
`machine.items[].status`	string	Company status, e.g. Active.
`machine.items[].address`	string	Registered office address.
`machine.items[].url`	string	Link to the company page on the register.
`machine.items[].company_type`	null	Null in the sample; the register listing does not give it here. Use the company lookup for company type.
`machine.items[].incorporation_date`	string	Date of incorporation (YYYY-MM-DD).
`machine.items[].previous_name_match`	string	The earlier company name that matched your keyword, when the match came from a previous name.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "uk_companies_search",
  "keyword": "tesco",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# United Kingdom — Companies House — company search\n\n- **Keyword:** tesco\n- **Results:** 2\n- **Proxy traffic:** 52.8 KB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "registration_number": "00445790",
      "name": "TESCO PLC",
      "status": "Active",
      "address": "Tesco House, Shire Park, Kestrel Way, Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom, AL7 1GA",
      "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00445790",
      "company_type": null,
      "incorporation_date": "1947-11-27",
      "previous_name_match": "TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY"
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "registration_number": "00445790",
        "name": "TESCO PLC",
        "status": "Active",
        "address": "Tesco House, Shire Park, Kestrel Way, Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom, AL7 1GA",
        "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00445790",
        "company_type": null,
        "incorporation_date": "1947-11-27",
        "previous_name_match": "TESCO STORES (HOLDINGS) PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY"
      },
      {
        "registration_number": "09384423",
        "name": "KFORD TYRES (GORNAL) LTD",
        "status": "Active",
        "address": "2 Dawley Brook Road, Kingswinford, England, DY6 7BD",
        "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09384423",
        "company_type": null,
        "incorporation_date": "2015-01-12",
        "previous_name_match": "TESCO TYRES LTD"
      }
    ],
    "total_found": null,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 54087
  },
  "total_points": 2
}

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

Results come back in the same envelope as every other source: a session id, a readable summary, the structured result and the points charged.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-uk-companies-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword":"tesco","max_items":2}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Resolve a name to a company number

Turn a company name from an invoice, CRM row or news item into the registration number you need for a profile lookup.

Find look-alike and former names

See which companies carry or once carried a name, via previous_name_match.

Sector or brand sweeps

Run a keyword and collect every UK company with that word in its name, with status and address.

Screening lists

Check a list of counterparty names against the register and flag the ones that are not Active.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

United Kingdom — entities on Companies House.

Freshness

Read at request time, so the answer reflects the register as it stands when you ask.

Handling

Companies House is a public register. Every response carries the source URL it was read from and a session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—total_found is null in the sample, so the register may not report how many matches exist; do not rely on it for paging.
—company_type is null in search results. Use Companies House company for company type, SIC codes and officers.
—Results are matches on name only, so common words return unrelated companies.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Yes. When a result matched on an earlier name, previous_name_match holds that name.

Related sources

Companies House company

Full company profile by company number.

Companies House filings

Filing history for one company.

All corporate registries

Company registers across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, plus global LEI lookup.

Try united kingdom company search on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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