Decision-grade data gives you a complete, current, and reliable view to define, screen, and track the companies behind anything you publish.
Reliable join keys
Join on company numbers, not company names
Records carry company registration numbers, so a departmental list or a sector definition held as CRNs matches directly instead of being fuzzy-matched on name strings. Group structure resolves linked and partner enterprises, which is what an SME determination actually turns on.
Named companies
Named companies where you had an aggregate
Ultimate-parent country, sector and location on every private company in the UK and Germany — so “about twenty foreign-owned firms” becomes a list of thirty-seven you can check, contact and publish a methodology for.
Deal-level funding
Funding recorded deal by deal
Each round held as its own record with its own characteristics, rather than rolled into a company total — including raises picked up from shareholder filings that were never announced, which at policy scale is not a rounding error.
Common challenges faced by government departments and agencies
A department list of company registration numbers, or a regulated population keyed on reference numbers that don’t exist at Companies House. Matching falls back to company names, coverage drops, and the join has to be redone every time the population moves.
The standard classification was last revised before cybersecurity, AI and fintech existed at any scale. Priority sectors end up as a weighting across code fragments — which works for aggregate statistics but forces a binary in-or-out call on every individual firm.
The published figure says roughly twenty companies. Which twenty? Aggregate statistics are enough to report a number and not enough to contact anyone, target support, or check whether the number is right.
A team of two working a list of nineteen thousand. Two and a half thousand records read one by one — description, then website — to find the five hundred that qualify. The list exists; the capacity to act on it does not.
Information gets chased out of companies that have no obligation to provide it, or out of colleagues who can run the query you can’t. Either way the update depends on someone remembering, and nothing tells you when it goes stale.
Help your team track innovative businesses, spot emerging sectors, and build reports with confidence.
Use cases
What departments and agencies use Beauhurst for
“One of the most powerful company data platforms available for public sector intelligence.”
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