The complete picture for every company
Company information is fragmented across legal entities, registries, news sources, filings and more. True Companies brings it all together — one coherent profile for every real business.
Speak to an expertWhy company data has always been incomplete
The problem
A company is a complex thing. Information about it exists everywhere: official registers, lodged in IP and innovation databases, recorded in public funding databases, written about in the news, and scattered across company websites. None of these sources talk to each other.
Most platforms are built on legal entities, the registrations that appear on Companies House and other official registries. But legal entities aren't companies. And the information that tells you what a business actually does exists across sources that have nothing to do with registration at all.
Only around 10% of UK businesses operate through complex legal structures, but they employ roughly two-thirds of the workforce. That fragmented picture affects every piece of analysis built on top of it.
True Companies is Beauhurst's answer.
What True Companies actually are
A True Company is a business as you'd recognise it. It's a profile on the Beauhurst platform that shows an active organisation with its own entity, operations, and agency. Using a combination of proprietary technology and human curation, we've identified the boundaries of every real business and consolidated information into one profile.
We draw from official registers, IP and innovation databases, public records, news sources, company websites and more, attributing everything to the right company, to create the complete view for every company.
Learn more in our FAQWhat True Companies makes possible
Find and research the right companies, faster
You're trying to understand a business, not decode its corporate structure. True Companies does that work for you, pulling together everything we know into one coherent profile, so you reach insight faster and with more confidence. One search, one profile, the complete picture.
Company intelligence you can trust
Stop cross-referencing. Stop second-guessing. With data consolidated from across legal entities, news, filings, patents, and more, all attributed correctly to the right business, you can trust that what you're working from is complete. Curator-verified boundaries for the most commercially significant companies mean the most important profiles are also the most reliable.
See what others miss
The businesses that are hardest to research are often the most important to understand. Complex group structures, multi-entity corporates, businesses whose story is spread across dozens of sources — True Companies surfaces all of it. Because the companies that are hardest to find are often the ones most worth finding.
The detail when you need it, the big picture when you don't
True Companies doesn't remove anything. Legal entity search remains fully available, every entity links to its True Company and can be accessed directly for workflows that require entity-level detail. Toggle between views. Dig into the fine print when you want to, not out of necessity.
Everything we know, in one place
True Companies brings together data from across every source Beauhurst tracks — not just registries.
| Source | What it adds |
|---|---|
| Legal entity data | Corporate registrations, structure, group hierarchy |
| Financial filings | Consolidated accounts, turnover, headcount |
| Public funding databases | Equity rounds, grants, debt |
| News coverage | Signals, milestones, press mentions |
| IP and innovation databases | Patents, grants, R&D activity and innovation records |
| Key people | Directors, shareholders, advisors |
| Company websites | Primary web presence per True Company |
| Official records | Export filings, regulatory records, official sources |
What's included
All the sources that tell you what a company actually is, finally in one place
Consolidated company profiles
One profile per real business, built from every source Beauhurst tracks.
Legal entity environment
Full legal entity search still available. Every entity links to its True Company.
Curator-verified boundaries
For the most commercially significant companies, our data team actively verifies True Company definitions.
Advisory data
See the advisors behind every deal, directly in the platform.
Consolidated financials
Financials pulled from the most complete accounts across the group — no double-counting.
International coverage
True Companies launches across the UK and Germany — a consistent methodology built to scale.
Ready to see the complete picture?
If you use Beauhurst to find companies, research clients, track a portfolio, or measure economic impact, and you want to know the decisions you're making are built on a complete picture, True Companies changes what's possible.