Decision-grade data gives you a complete, current, and reliable view to define, screen, and track the companies in any market you are asked about.
Defensible classification
A classification you can defend in a client report
Our own human-verified industry taxonomy sits alongside the statutory codes, built from what a company does and says about itself, with free-text description search on top. Cohorts that don’t exist as an official category — maritime, TIC, a niche sub-sector — become populations you can define, defend and rebuild.
Reusable populations
Define the population once, then keep it
Save a market as a collection and it updates as companies incorporate, grow and fail, with alerts on what changes. Export it for aggregation when the analysis has to happen in your own model.
Proper matching
Resolve companies properly, not by name string
Upload a client list or a longlist and match it against verified records and full group structure, so duplicates from partial corporate trees collapse and nothing drops out because of a punctuation mark.
Common challenges faced by consulting firms
A life sciences business filed as motorcycle repair. A sector that isn’t a category at all. When the client is paying you to define and size a market, a mis-coded company isn’t a wasted call — it’s a wrong number in the report with your name on it.
Defining a population means reading websites, sampling trade-association member lists and scraping what you can. Teams describe a week of one person’s time on segmentation alone, before any analysis has started.
You run the query, then open each result to check the company really does belong in the sector. The tool produces the longlist and a person produces the confidence — so the tool has only moved the work, not removed it.
A missing full stop after “Limited” and the record doesn’t come back. You go away and check company numbers by hand, and duplicates from incomplete corporate trees survive into a list that has to be right.
Mid and lower-mid-market companies file abbreviated accounts, and founder-led businesses often publish no profit and loss at all. The companies most worth analysing are the ones with least on the public record.
Help your team research markets in real time, identify and win clients, and run due diligence with confidence.
Use cases
What consultancies use Beauhurst for
“Beauhurst is more than just an excellent data source — it’s a solutions provider, helping us to achieve our goals through support and training.”
Sandy EnglandHead of Business Programmes
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