USE CASE:
Legal entities for UK companies, start to finish
What follows is the honest set of ways to get legal entities on UK companies, including the ones that are not ours. Mamba Labs writes Apify actors for work like this, and Legal Entity Resolver is the one that reads UK companies.
What is actually going wrong
UK companies skew legal entities, for a reason specific to them. Any legal entities method has to survive this: UK companies file, publish and advertise under local rules that no global dataset models properly. On UK companies, legal entities rarely catches this: coverage from any vendor drops off a cliff outside the English speaking market. Legal Entity Resolver carries 1 ready made setup for legal entities on UK companies.
Why it matters
Asking the customer who they legally are is slow and looks unprepared, which is why UK companies keep arriving unresolved.
Traditional Search Tools
- The national company register, for UK companies. Free, authoritative, and in its own language.
- The company's own footer. In the UK and most of the EU the registered name and number are required on the website. It is the fastest lookup there is and people forget it exists.
- Dun and Bradstreet or a KYC vendor. Built for regulated onboarding, with the coverage and the price that implies. If you have a compliance obligation you probably already have one.
- Search the register. Companies House, the SEC, the local commercial register. All free, all authoritative, and all requiring you to already know roughly what you are searching for.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- Legal Entity Resolver1 preconfigured task on this page's job.