Acquisition intelligence on live UK Companies House data
Find, evaluate and monitor acquisition opportunities with intelligence.
AcquireScout helps search funds, independent sponsors and PE teams search the UK company register, score every target against their own thesis with a transparent rules engine, and track the changes that matter — from first look to closed deal.
- Free while in early access
- No card required
- Explainable scores
Built for teams sourcing private acquisitions
- Search funds
- Independent sponsors
- Lower-middle-market PE
- Corporate development
- Family offices
Why it matters
Screening private companies shouldn't come down to spreadsheets and gut feel.
- Sourcing is manual
- Screening private companies means spreadsheets, scattered filings and hours per target before you know whether it even fits.
- Fit is a judgment call
- Without a consistent method, two people score the same business differently — and nobody can say exactly why.
- Change goes unnoticed
- A new charge, an officer resignation or a missed filing can sit on the register for weeks before anyone looks.
The platform
Everything from acquisition thesis to closed deal
Deterministic where it matters — matching, scoring and eligibility — with AI reserved for grounded, plain-language explanation.
Buy Box theses
Write your acquisition thesis in plain English or build it criterion by criterion — must-haves, preferences and exclusions you confirm before anything takes effect.
Deterministic scoring
A 0–100 fit score from a rules engine, with confidence and data completeness. The same inputs always produce the same score, and every point is accounted for.
Opportunity Radar & signals
New matches, improving and deteriorating scores, and ownership or financing events — detected on each sync and ranked by severity.
Financials from filed accounts
Revenue, EBITDA, debt and more extracted from iXBRL filings, with provenance on every figure and missing data marked unknown — never zero.
Diligence & comparison
Compare candidates side by side and work an 11-category diligence checklist prioritised from each company's own weak points.
Pipeline, Deal Room & memos
Move targets through stages with tasks, notes and documents, then generate an investment memo built from the data you already hold.
How a score is built
Rules decide. AI explains.
Every result travels the same path in the same direction. Nothing a model writes can change a score, an eligibility decision or a number.
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Data
Companies House profile, officers, PSCs, charges and filings.
- 02
Structured facts
Figures extracted from filed accounts, with their source.
- 03
Rules
Your Buy Box as filters, preferences and exclusions.
- 04
Score
A 0–100 fit score whose components sum to exactly 100.
- 05
Explanation
AI describes the result in plain English — after the fact.
How it works
One workspace for the whole acquisition process
01Define your Buy Box
Revenue range, sector, geography, ownership and age — the thesis you actually have.
02Research real companies
Search the live register and open any company to sync its full profile.
03Score and understand fit
See exactly which criteria matched, which didn't, and what was unknown.
04Monitor what changes
Signals and the Opportunity Radar surface movement on companies you track.
05Diligence, decide, execute
Work the checklist, draft the memo, and run the deal from the same workspace.
Why teams trust it
Transparent by design
Research you can defend — to your investors, your lenders and yourself.
Real government data
Company facts, filings and financials come from the UK Companies House register — not third-party estimates.
Deterministic, always
Scores and eligibility come from a rules engine AI cannot reach. That boundary is enforced in the code itself.
Nothing hidden
Confidence and data completeness are shown on every score. A thin-data score is labelled as one.
Start with your own acquisition thesis.
Create an account, describe what you're looking for, and score a company you already know in a few minutes. Free while paid plans are in development.