SuccessionScope reads the whole UK register — every filing, every director, every year of silence — and scores each private company on how closely it resembles a business about to change hands. This edition: fifty off-market targets for Logistics & Freight, ranked, with the working shown.
Sample edition — synthetic companies, not real registrants
Report № 000 — Sample SIC 49xxx–53xxx Score engine v0.1.0 Pressed July 2026
Synthetic companies generated60
Scored by the engine60
Ranked into this sample edition50
Click any company for its full signal breakdown.
Director ages appear as five-year bands only, as provided by the public register. The full edition ships with a CSV appendix of every field above.
Every point in every score traces to a public filing at Companies House. The breakdown is the product — you can check our working, and you should.
The strongest predictor of an exit is the calendar. Points scale linearly from the 55–60 band and peak where the eldest active director sits at 65 or beyond — month-and-year of birth as the register provides it, never a full date.
A single active director, or a board sharing one surname, means the decision to sell belongs to one household. Concentrated ownership shortens every conversation that follows.
If no director under 45 has been appointed in five years, nobody is being groomed for the chair. The absence of a filing is itself a filing.
Points accrue from fifteen years of trading and peak at twenty-five. A business that has survived three recessions is a business someone will want to buy.
Still filing, on time, with no strike-off or insolvency events. We are pointing you at going concerns, not distressed paper.
An auditor or registered-address change in the last eighteen months often means advisers have arrived. A small signal, weighted accordingly.
“A score indicates statistical similarity to typical pre-succession profiles. It is not a claim that any company or person intends to sell.”
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This report is compiled exclusively from official public-register data (Companies House, UK). Processing relies on legitimate interest in prioritising business-development research. Scores are prioritisation aids, not predictions. Director ages appear only as bands, never as exact ages or dates of birth. Directors and companies may request removal from future editions at removals@successionscope.example.