Founder Capital Pro
Pro reads what a company has filed at Companies House — the accounts included — and tells you what the business might be worth, how healthy the numbers are, what the register says about the people behind it, and whether it sits inside our lending and acquisition criteria.
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Companies House provides a company’s filings as documents. Pro reads them, turns them into comparable figures, and applies published market multiples to those figures.
Companies House publishes accounts as tagged documents, not data. Pro parses the filings, takes the current year and its comparatives, and gives you turnover, profit, net assets, cash and headcount as a series you can compare.
Every method is shown: what it was applied to, which published multiple it used, and what had to be assumed. Where the accounts do not support a method, that method is switched off rather than filled in.
Scale, balance sheet, trading trend, liquidity and standing at the register — each scored out of five with the filed figure that produced it. A component we cannot measure is marked so, not scored zero.
Points drawn automatically from the accounts and the register: debtor days against turnover, directors over sixty, floating charges that would rank ahead of new security, and directors who have resigned recently.
Filter every active company on the register by sector, place and age — then by turnover, profit, headcount and health across everything Pro has read.
Follow a company and get told when it files accounts, registers a charge or changes its officers.
Small companies often file very little. Where a figure has not been disclosed, Pro says so rather than substituting a sector average.
Sector ranges are third-party UK figures with the source shown beside the number. None is our own estimate.
Where a company has not disclosed an input, the method that needs it is switched off and the page says why.
Filleted accounts do not support a single figure. Where only a balance sheet has been filed, Pro shows book value and labels it as such.
Sector multiples are published UK SME ranges from BusinessValuation.co.uk (H2 2026), Move at Pace (Feb 2026) and Consult EFC (2025–26); advice-firm ranges from Chapters Capital (2026). They describe the market, not this company, and no source is a valuation.
Register data, filing history, charges, officers and the accounts documents themselves come from Companies House under the Open Government Licence.
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Read moreCompanies House, under the Open Government Licence. The register gives status, officers, charges and filing history. The financial figures are parsed from the accounts documents themselves, which are filed as iXBRL — tagged HTML — for anything filed electronically.
Because that is what they filed. A small company may file filleted accounts — a balance sheet, with no profit and loss account and no turnover. Pro shows what has been filed and states what has not, rather than estimating the difference.
No. It is an indication of what a business of that shape has been changing hands for, built from the company's own filed figures and published UK sector multiples that are named on the page. It is not a valuation, an offer, or advice, and it takes no account of anything that is not in the accounts.
No. Founder Capital LLP is not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. Pro is a research tool about companies and their filings. It makes no recommendation to buy, sell, lend or invest, and it is not a financial promotion.
Yes. It shows what a buyer, a lender or a competitor would see, since everything in Pro is public information.
The register is read live. Accounts are read once and cached, then refreshed when a new set is filed. A company's figures are only ever as current as its last filing — which for a small company can be nine months after its year end.
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