Decision-grade data gives you a complete, current, and reliable view to find, screen, and track every business in your area.
Full area coverage
See every business in your area, not just the ones you’ve met
Full coverage of UK private companies, filterable to postcode level and on trading address as well as registered — so branch operations count and an accountant’s office address doesn’t distort your map. The businesses that never answered a survey become visible.
Your sector definitions
Define your priority sectors the way you actually mean them
Our own human-verified classification sits alongside SIC, built from what a company does and says about itself. Cohorts that don’t exist in official taxonomies — defence-adjacent, green, creative — become searchable lists you can rebuild and defend whenever you’re asked.
Evidenced impact
Evidence what your support changed, without chasing founders
Upload the businesses you backed as a cohort and track turnover, headcount and funding over time — including the fundraisings companies never announce. Reporting stops depending on who replies to a survey.
Common challenges faced by local authorities
ONS and NOMIS lag by 12–18 months. Strategies get written against an economy that has already moved, and nobody can refresh a figure on demand.
Defence, green, creative, advanced manufacturing — none map to a single classification. One search misses the cohort, the next returns thousands of irrelevant companies.
Surveys reach maybe half the base. The rest — smaller, growing, under the radar — never appear, so the same firms turn up at every event while the ones that need help stay invisible.
Business engagement data sits in personal files with no single source of truth, so it is inconsistently captured, hard to find, and walks out of the door when someone leaves.
Outcome reporting depends on chasing founders for survey responses. Funding wins go undisclosed, so impact is under-reported precisely when funders are asking for evidence.
A 300-company target list with contacts for 100 of them can’t be actioned. Teams fall back to hunting LinkedIn company by company.
Help your team understand your local economy, track innovative businesses, and evidence results with confidence.
Use cases
What councils and local authorities use Beauhurst for
“You probably don’t realise how little you know about businesses until you have Beauhurst. It enables you to see the bigger picture, a company’s origins, its people and their networks. Having access to Beauhurst is like having a colleague, not just a data platform.”
Try Beauhurst
Turn market intelligence into repeatable action. Give every team that works with private companies the signals they need to identify opportunities, act at the right moment, and stay ahead.
