Everything you need to know about using Company Shark.
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From your dashboard, use the search tools to find UK companies by location, SIC code, incorporation date, and more.
Search for companies by their registered address location. Enter a city, town, county, or postcode area to find companies registered in that area.
Filter results by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes to find companies in specific industries. You can select multiple SIC codes to broaden your search.
Narrow results to companies incorporated within a specific date range. Useful for finding newly formed businesses or companies established during a particular period.
Filter by company status such as “Active”, “Dissolved”, or “In Administration”.
Active means the company is currently registered and operating. Dissolved means it has been removed from the register. Other statuses include liquidation, administration, and voluntary arrangement.
SIC codes classify a company's primary business activity. A company may have multiple SIC codes if it operates across several industries.
The date the company was officially registered with Companies House.
Available on Pro, Business, and MAX tiers. Officer data shows the company's directors and secretaries, including their names, roles, and appointment dates.
The official registered address as recorded with Companies House. Note that this may differ from the company's trading address.
Depending on your subscription tier, you can export search results in the following formats:
Each tier has a monthly export limit. Pro users receive 1,000 exports per month, Business users 10,000, and MAX / MAX+ users unlimited (subject to fair use). Your current usage is displayed on the dashboard and in your account settings.
After performing a search, use the export buttons above the results table to download data in your preferred format. Only the current search results will be exported.
3 searches/month, basic company data, no exports, 7-day search history.
30 searches/month, PDF export (up to 1,000/month), officer data, 30-day search history.
300 searches/month, all export formats — CSV, Excel, JSON, PDF (up to 10,000/month) — full officer data, unlimited search history, SIC code search filtering.
Unlimited searches and exports for a single user, subject to fair use.
Everything in MAX, plus our two intelligence layers: Contact enrichment (up to 2 jobs of 300 companies per day, delivered as an Excel attachment to your inbox at 09:00 UK) and Trading Signals (a 0–100 observational score per UK Ltd derived from public Companies House records).
Visit the Pricing page for a full comparison and to subscribe.
Access your account settings from the user menu in the top navigation. Update your email, change your password, or view your account details.
View your current month's search and export usage from the Usage page.
Upgrade or downgrade from the Pricing page. Upgrades take effect immediately. Downgrades take effect at the end of your current billing period.
Cancel any time from your account settings. Access continues until the end of the current billing period, then reverts to Free. No refunds for unused time.
All company data is sourced from the official Companies House public register via the Companies House API.
Data is fetched in real-time from the Companies House API when you perform a search.
The Companies House API has its own rate limits which we manage transparently. Your subscription tier's search limits are set comfortably within these boundaries.
Companies House data is publicly available, but you should comply with all applicable data protection laws (including GDPR) when using it for marketing, particularly regarding any personal data such as officer names.
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