Practical guides for better due diligence.
Read these when you want more context than a single report can provide. They are designed to make the product more legible, not to bury the answer in content.
How to check a builder before paying a deposit or signing a quote. Practical UK due diligence with Companies House context, filing behaviour, and the payment protections that matter.
How to check whether a UK company looks legitimate before you pay, sign, or start work. Practical identity, filing, governance, and official-record checks in plain English.
How freelancers should vet clients before starting work. Focus on invoice risk, filing discipline, and how to set terms when the evidence is mixed.
Ten practical red flags that a UK company may be under serious pressure, from overdue filings and weak liquidity to official notices and governance instability.
What late filing really tells you about a UK company, why it matters before you pay or extend credit, and what it should change in practice.
Five practical signs that help answer whether a UK company looks likely to pay your invoice, with payment-behaviour, filing, governance, and resilience context.
How to read UK company accounts without accounting jargon, focusing on the few numbers that actually change a real-world decision.
What director history can reveal about a UK company, including churn, dissolved-company patterns, and why governance context matters before you trust a business.
How to check a tradesperson in the UK before you book or pay. Focus on the legal entity, payment risk, and the practical questions that protect you before work starts.
How sector context changes company risk checks, why some industries fail more often than others, and how to use sector benchmarks without losing sight of the individual company.