The owners most likely to sell haven’t listed anything yet.
SuccessionScope reads the entire UK Companies House register, scores every active private SME on statistical similarity to pre-succession profiles — director age bands, sole and family control, absent heirs, filing behaviour — and hands you the top 50 in your industry thesis as a client-ready report.
First thesis shipping now: UK logistics & freight (SIC 49–53). Manufacturing next. Custom SIC sets on request.
Six public signals. One hundred points. Every point explained.
The breakdown is the product: each target shows exactly why it scored what it scored, so the report survives contact with an investment committee.
Points ramp as the oldest active director passes typical retirement-planning age. Ages come from the register’s month/year of birth and appear only as five-year bands.
A single active director, or a board sharing one surname — the situations where succession has no institutional answer.
No director under 45 appointed in the last five years: no visible next generation on the board.
Firms trading 25+ years are far more likely to be founder-generation owned.
Clean active status, filing on time, no strike-off or insolvency markers — a target has to be a going concern to be worth a letter.
Auditor or registered-address changes in the last 18 months can accompany advisory activity. The weakest signal, weighted accordingly.
Thesis in. Fifty targets out. Five working days.
You define the thesis
Sector by SIC codes, optional regions, exclusions. Logistics & freight is live; any UK SIC set can be configured. One email is enough — we’ll shape it with you.
We score the register
Every active private company in your thesis is filtered from 5.7M register rows, enriched with officer data from the Companies House API, and scored 0–100.
You get the report
A branded PDF: the top 50 by score with per-signal breakdowns, registered localities, a plain-English methodology page — plus a CSV appendix for your CRM.
“A score indicates statistical similarity to typical pre-succession profiles. It is not a claim that any company or person intends to sell.” — printed on the methodology page of every report
- Built exclusively on official public registers (Companies House). No scraping, no bought lists, no email-finding.
- Director ages are processed as month/year only and shown only as five-year bands — never an exact age or date of birth.
- Every report carries its lawful-basis note and a removal-request contact, honoured within five working days.
One thesis, one report, €500.
Concierge pilot pricing while the first sector theses ship. If the report doesn’t give you conversations worth having, tell us why and don’t come back — that’s the deal.
- 50 ranked off-market targets in your sector thesis, scored 0–100
- Per-signal breakdown for every company — defensible in front of a committee
- CSV appendix ready for your CRM or outreach tooling
- Methodology page with honest caveats and lawful-basis note
- One revision of exclusions and region filters included
- Delivery in 5 working days from thesis confirmation
Opens an email to umut.bakin@torquefoundry.com with a short thesis template. No account, no subscription, no call required.
The short answers
Where does the data come from?
Two official sources only: the Companies House bulk register snapshot (refreshed monthly) and the Companies House public API for officer records. Nothing scraped, nothing bought, nothing private.
Is this GDPR-compliant?
The pipeline processes public-register data under legitimate interest, stores director births as month/year only (exactly as Companies House publishes them), reports ages only as five-year bands, and every report names a removal-request contact. The methodology page states plainly what a score is and is not.
Can a score tell me an owner wants to sell?
No — and we print that on every report. A score measures similarity to typical pre-succession profiles from public filings. It tells you where a respectful, well-timed conversation is most likely to be worth having. The conversation is still yours to have.
What sectors can you cover?
Any UK sector definable by SIC codes. Logistics & freight (SIC 49–53) ships now, manufacturing is configured next, and a custom thesis takes about a day to set up before the standard five-day delivery.