Comparison
CoreFi Company Report vs free Companies House
Companies House gives you a company's raw filings for free. A CoreFi Company Report takes that same public record and turns it into a readable report: filed accounts cross-checked, charges and directors interpreted in plain English, adverse checks, and charts, delivered as a one-off PDF from £39. You pay for the synthesis and the checking, not for the data.
| Companies House | CoreFi Company Report | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | One-off, from £39, no subscription |
| Format | Raw filings and documents | Readable report and charts, delivered as a PDF |
| Accounts | As filed (PDF or iXBRL) | Read and cross-checked against the accounting identities |
| Charges | A list | Each lender, dates, and outstanding or satisfied, interpreted |
| Directors | Current and resigned list | Timeline, other appointments, neutral conduct check |
| Verification | The source itself | Links back to Companies House on every figure |
What Companies House gives you for free
The Companies House register is the official source and it is genuinely free. You can look up a company's status, registered office, directors, persons of significant control, the charge register, and download the filed accounts and confirmation statements as they were submitted.
For a quick check that a company exists and is active, the free register is often all you need, and a CoreFi report links back to it on every figure so you can always verify at source.
What a CoreFi Company Report adds
The filings are raw. A set of filed accounts is a PDF or an iXBRL document, not an analysis. A CoreFi report reads the accounts, cross-checks the figures against the standard accounting identities, and only shows a figure where it reconciles, so a mis-filed number is flagged rather than repeated. It renders multi-year trends, ratios, the charge register with each lender and whether the debt is outstanding or satisfied, a director timeline, and a neutral director-conduct check, all in one document.
It is a compilation and interpretation of public-record data. It is information only, not advice, and not a credit score.
When the free record is enough, and when to buy
Use the free register when you only need to confirm a company is real and active, or when you are comfortable reading raw accounts yourself.
Buy the report when you are making a decision that turns on the numbers: onboarding a supplier, extending credit, pricing a deal, or checking a company before you buy it. The report does the reading and the cross-checking for you and gives you a dated, sourced document to keep on file.
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Frequently asked
Is Companies House free?
Yes. The Companies House register and the filed documents are free to search and download. A CoreFi Company Report is a paid, one-off compilation of that public data into a readable, cross-checked report.
Why pay for a company report if the data is free?
You are paying for the work, not the data: reading and cross-checking the filed accounts, interpreting the charge register and directors, running the adverse checks, and presenting it all as a dated, sourced PDF you can keep on file.
Is a CoreFi report official or endorsed by Companies House?
No. It is compiled from Companies House and other public registers under the Open Government Licence, but it is not an official record and carries no government endorsement. It links back to the source so you can verify any figure.
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