How this register works
The value of a directory is entirely in what its marks mean. These are the rules, and they are the product.
The rules
Checked is not for sale
The mark is the full stop from the abi. wordmark with a tick in it. It means one thing: this company displays its registered number on its own website, as UK trading disclosure rules require, and we confirmed it on the date shown. It says the registration was checked. It does not say the company uses abi., and it cannot be bought at any price.
The whole UK register, not a sample
Companies House publishes the entire register once a month. We take that file and filter it, so a company is never missing because a quota ran out. Earlier work on our other directory sampled, and a real company was excluded because its sector's allocation for the year had run out six weeks in. That cannot happen here.
Specialism is inferred until you tell us otherwise
Specialism comes from the SIC code a company chose at incorporation. SIC codes are self-declared and rarely revisited, so every inferred specialism says so.
Addresses are cut to the district
We receive the full registered office address and keep the town and the postcode district. Pins on the map sit at the centre of that district.
No ratings, and no borrowed rankings
We carry no review scores. Showing a third party's stars would mean making a quality claim we cannot check, on data we do not own, and the review platforms require their own commercial agreement before a directory may display their content at all. We also do not reproduce anyone else's published list of leading providers. Those lists are somebody's editorial selection and they are protected as such. Where this register surfaces larger companies it does so from the accounts they file, which anybody can look up and check.
Nothing is copied from another directory
Not one record, not one description, not one review. Certification marks appear only when a company declares them, because the certification registers do not permit bulk ingestion.