UK Companies House MCP Server: due diligence and KYB (Registrum)
UK company due diligence and KYB: trace ownership to the beneficial owners, pull director histories, check ECCTA identity-verification status and deadlines, read parsed accounts. Live Companies House data, hosted, no key.
No Companies House developer account, no rate-limit handling, no iXBRL parsing.
Works in Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP-compatible client. It also answers ChatGPT search and fetch.
Dependabot alerts and update pull requests are enabled on all six Registrum repositories; SECURITY.md says where to see the live alert count.
Try it now — no signup, no key, no install
Point your client at the hosted endpoint and every tool answers with real data:
https://registrum.co.uk/api/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"registrum": {
"url": "https://registrum.co.uk/api/mcp"
}
}
}
That is the whole setup. Ask it "Who ultimately owns BrewDog?" and it will trace the ownership chain to the named individuals who hold control.
One thing worth knowing before you test it on a household name: companies listed
on a regulated market — Tesco, Rolls-Royce, most of the FTSE — are exempt from
the PSC regime, so their ownership chain is legitimately empty and
get_psc_chain says so rather than inventing a tree. Ownership questions are
interesting on private companies, which is where the register actually records
who is behind them.
The hosted endpoint has small daily caps, enough to see exactly what comes back. When you reach one, the tool tells you so and points at a free key; nothing silently degrades.
Three ways to use it
- Try it - no key. Point your MCP client at
https://registrum.co.uk/api/mcpand ask about any UK company. No signup. - Build with it - free key. 60 days of full access: every endpoint, no monthly cap, no card. After that the key stays free for light use.
- Run on it - paid plan. When you need volume, premium endpoints or an SLA.
Live prices and limits:
GET /v1/plans.
Why this instead of the Companies House API directly
Companies House publishes the raw register for free, and you can absolutely call it yourself. What you then own is the plumbing:
Other Companies House MCP servers make you bring your own CH key and hand back the raw response. This one does the enrichment.
Running it with your own key
Use a key to build on it (60 days of full access), or when you would rather run the server locally than call ours.
Claude Desktop — ~/.claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Cursor — .cursor/mcp.json (per project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global)
{
"mcpServers": {
"registrum": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@registrum/mcp"],
"env": { "REGISTRUM_API_KEY": "reg_live_..." }
}
}
}
Get a free key — 60 days of full access, no card.
Tools
Resources
The same data is also exposed as MCP resource templates, for clients that attach context by URI. Each returns the JSON of the matching tool, goes through the same usage limits, and accepts a short numeric number (it is zero-padded to 8 characters).
On get_bundle
Most questions about a company need several of these views at once. get_bundle
returns them in a single request: one call and one credit instead of five,
and one round trip instead of five. Pass include to fetch a subset, or omit it
for all five sections.
Each section carries exactly what its own endpoint returns, because the bundle is composed from those same handlers rather than reimplemented - so plan gates, caching and the ECCTA rules behave identically either way.
A null section is not an error. Financials come back null for a company that has filed no machine-readable accounts, and compliance requires a Pro plan. Only a missing company is an error, and that is a 404. Report a null section as "not available", never as an absence of the underlying fact.
On get_compliance
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act requires every UK director and PSC to verify their identity with Companies House. Deadlines are per company, not one date: each existing director is due by their company's next confirmation-statement due date, so the date differs from company to company. Unverified officers can block filings once it passes.
The tool returns verified / pending / overdue counts plus each unverified person and their individual deadline. It deliberately distinguishes pending (deadline not yet reached — not a failure) from overdue (missed). Treating those as the same thing is the single easiest way to report a compliant company as non-compliant.
Example prompts
"Is Tesco PLC compliant with ECCTA director verification, and who still needs to verify?"
"Pull the last filed financials for 00445790 and tell me if turnover grew."
"Who ultimately owns BrewDog? Trace the ownership chain to the individuals."
"Which companies share directors with Barratt Developments?"
"Search for 'Monzo' and show me status, incorporation date and directors."
Plans
The anonymous endpoint needs no account at all. A free key gives 60 days of full access, then stays free for light use; paid tiers add volume, premium endpoints such as PSC chain traversal and the ECCTA compliance endpoint, and an SLA.
Prices and quotas are served live from GET /v1/plans —
that endpoint is the source of truth, so this README does not duplicate the
numbers and cannot go stale against them. Human-readable version at
registrum.co.uk.
Notes
- Company numbers are zero-padded 8-character strings:
00445790,SC000268. - Responses are JSON, cached server-side (24h profiles/directors, 7d financials).
- The hosted endpoint is stateless and anonymous: it stores no account, and rate limiting is keyed on a hash of the calling IP rather than anything about you.
- The npm package sends
User-Agent: @registrum/mcp/<version>so we can see which features developers actually use. No telemetry runs on your machine.