| name | corporate-registry-investigation |
| title | corporate-registry-investigation |
| description | Use when users say "Companies House search", "investigate this UK company", "check officers/PSCs/charges", "registry snapshot", "group structure", "filing history", or need UK company profile, filings, risk leads, and registry evidence reviewed without unsupported allegations. |
| author | LegalQuants |
| author_url | https://github.com/LegalQuants/lq-skills/tree/main/skills/corporate-registry-investigation |
| license | Apache-2.0 |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| execution_mode | open |
| jurisdiction | gb |
| practice | corporate |
| language | en |
| tags | ["companies-house","investigation","registry","due-diligence","uk"] |
corporate-registry-investigation
When to Use
- A user needs a quick company profile from Companies House records.
- A litigation, diligence, onboarding, or enforcement workflow needs officers, PSCs, charges, filings, or group indicators.
- The user wants risk signals from public registry material.
This skill reads registry evidence. It does not prove beneficial ownership beyond what the registry and supplied documents show.
Audience and Work Shape
Audience: disputes, diligence, KYC, onboarding, conflicts, and in-house legal users doing first-pass UK registry review for lawyer or compliance review.
Work shape: pattern-matched review of registry evidence. The skill extracts and labels public registry facts and risk leads; it does not conclude wrongdoing, beneficial ownership, or suitability.
Legal Failure Modes
- Legal support, not legal advice: registry outputs are investigative leads, not legal findings or allegations.
- Privilege/confidentiality: in litigation, enforcement, or internal-investigation contexts, outputs may form privileged or work-product material. Do not circulate outside the privilege group without lawyer approval.
- Accountability: the skill tabulates evidence and inferences; the lawyer or responsible reviewer decides what the evidence means and whether follow-up is required.
Access Modes
This skill works in three modes:
- Live registry mode - use browser, web search, MCP, API, or other configured access to retrieve Companies House pages, filings, officers, PSCs, charges, and filing history.
- User-supplied registry mode - use company profile pages, filing PDFs, screenshots, API exports, CSVs, HTML, or pasted registry material supplied by the user.
- No-source mode - prepare a company-number/name search plan and checklist, but do not state registry facts or risk signals.
If live Companies House access is unavailable and the user has not supplied registry material, ask for a company number, company-profile export, filing PDFs, screenshots, or source access. Do not fill registry facts from model memory.
How It Works
1. Identify the company
Confirm:
- Company name.
- Company number, if known.
- Jurisdiction, usually England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland.
- Whether similarly named entities should be checked.
Prefer company number over name matching.
2. Pull registry snapshot
If live Companies House access is unavailable, ask the user for filings, screenshots, an API export, or company-profile text. State clearly whether findings are based on live registry access or user-supplied registry material.
