Engaging a Company.
The same reading, turned on a company and the people behind it. For boards, founders and family offices that need to know what a counterparty, a hire or a partner actually is, before it is relied upon.
What It Covers
We read a company the way we read a person. Its registrations and filings, its directorships and the map they draw, its owners down to the beneficial owners, country by country, the entities arranged around it, and the open record on the people who run it. What a company filing quietly discloses is often more than the company intends. Up to ten named individuals are read inside one engagement, each with their own footprint set out alongside the company itself.
Where a structure has been built to be hard to follow, following it is most of the work, and most of where the value lies.
When It Is Used
Before a partnership or an investment. Before a senior hire. When a counterparty asks to be trusted and the trust carries consequences. It is sharper now that a verified Companies House record joins names together, that beneficial ownership is recorded more widely, and that supervision is tightening across Europe. The work returns one current account of what the company and its people are, and where the record is thin or does not hold together.
How It Is Priced
An audit comes first. The work is then scoped to the company and its people, and agreed in writing before anything begins. An ongoing arrangement is available where the relationship continues.
Nothing is taken through the website. A company engagement begins with a conversation, and the scope is set before any work starts.