How we verify

Every firm record here is built from public, authoritative sources, and every claim we display links back to where it can be checked. We show only what we can verify - and when we cannot verify something, we say so plainly rather than guess.

Our sources

• Companies House - incorporation, company status, registered office, and filing history (published under the Open Government Licence).
• HMRC anti-money-laundering register - businesses HMRC supervises directly for money-laundering compliance.
• Professional-body registers - ICAEW, ACCA, AAT, CIOT and ATT, which supervise and regulate their member firms.
• The firm's own website - services, sectors and software a firm states publicly about itself.

What we show

Facts we can trace to one of those sources, each stamped with the source and the date we last checked it. Our Trust Score is fully deterministic: it adds fixed points for public, verified signals (active company, anti-money-laundering supervision, filing compliance, a confirmed website, and trading history), and every rule is listed on the firm's page. Nothing in the score is subjective.

What we do not show, and why

• Ratings and reviews. We do not publish star ratings or review text. They are opinions, not verifiable facts, and republishing them is not what an independent, records-based directory is for.
• Registered office street addresses we cannot corroborate.A registered office is often a person's home. We show a street address only where an independent trading source confirms it is a real place of business, and otherwise show the town and postcode area only.
• Anything we cannot verify. Where a signal is not confirmed in our sources, we leave it off rather than present an unchecked claim.

When a record is brief

A short record does not mean a firm is not genuine. Many smaller and sole-practitioner accountants keep a limited public footprint, and some firms (for example, traditional partnerships) are not on Companies House at all, while others are supervised by a professional body rather than HMRC. A brief page simply means we have not yet confirmed more from public sources - not that the firm lacks it. Absence in our data is not a judgement on the firm.

Corrections and additions

If you run a firm listed here, you can complete or correct its record. We verify submissions against the same public sources before they are shown.