Decision-grade data gives you a complete, current, and reliable view to find, screen, and track R&D-active companies and the groups they sit in.
Real R&D signals
Find the R&D itself, not a proxy for it
Patents searchable by classification and grant date, awarded grants, and a human-verified industry taxonomy built from what a company actually does. A rolling search — patent granted in the last two years, turnover above your floor — becomes a list that refreshes itself instead of one you rebuild each quarter.
The claiming entity
See which entity in the group holds the work
Group data aggregated across the corporate tree, so patents, spend and financials surface against the group rather than being hidden in whichever subsidiary filed them. You approach the right entity first instead of working through the others to find it.
A reason to call
Arrive with a reason to be there
Chain a client’s recent funding round to the investors in it, then to those investors’ other portfolio companies — a warm premise rather than a cold list. Alerts on the client book surface grant awards, key-people moves and credit changes as they happen.
Common challenges faced by R&D tax advisers
A quarter of companies sit under “other” or “activities of holding company”, and the declared category rarely describes what a business does. Search on precision engineering and you get precision medicine — so eligible companies are missed and ineligible ones fill the list.
A group has a dozen subsidiaries and the research happens in one of them. The registry doesn’t say which, so the team works through the entities one call at a time to find the company that actually holds the activity.
Bulk-loaded records keyed on something unstable, and one business appears again and again under slightly different names. Several people dial the same contact in the same week, and suppression lists can’t keep up with the duplication.
Prioritisation runs off one attribute, and that attribute is missing on half the database. Headcount reads “one employee” everywhere it wasn’t collected, and companies marked inactive are still trading — so a dialling floor works a fraction of what it was given.
When the list refreshes twice a year, prospecting quietly becomes a second pass over old CRM records. Activity stays high and genuinely fresh opportunity declines, which nobody notices until the pipeline does.
Everyone is running the same sequences into the same inboxes, and response rates fall accordingly. What is missing isn’t volume — it’s a credible reason to be in touch with this company, today.
Help your team find innovative companies fast, win new clients, and keep existing ones close with confidence.
Use cases
What R&D tax and grant consultancies use Beauhurst for
“Without Beauhurst, we simply couldn’t grow at the rate we’re growing.”
Sal MingoiaPartner at Cooper Parry
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