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Everything in Dittabase.

Who uses it and for what, where the data comes from, every feature on each plan, and the price.

What customers use it for

Find independently owned companies, and see what similar ones sold for

Screen on ownership as well as figures: owners of an age to sell, no corporate owner, good margins, no borrowing. Then assess the financials and compare the prices paid for similar acquisitions.

  1. Start from a ready-made screen, such as Owners nearing retirement, and narrow it to a town.
  2. Open a company: its accounts, how it is owned, the board, and its lenders from the charges it has registered.
  3. Price it from deals in its sector: the median value to turnover, read from buyers' own accounts.

Britain's company records, gathered into one place

Much of Britain's company information is scattered across filings, accounts and public registers. Dittabase reads those records, organises the figures and connects the companies, people and transactions behind them.

Our customers go from a company search to years of financial statements, its owners, its lenders and the deals in its sector, without working through each filing themselves.

The register

Every company in Companies House's monthly snapshot, with its status, address and sector.

Accounts

Every set filed as data, read tag by tag; scanned accounts read so that they can be searched.

Owners and officers

The daily snapshot of persons with significant control, and the appointments to every board.

Charges

Each charge registered, with the lender named in it.

Share allotments

Funding rounds read from the returns companies file when they issue shares.

Deals

Changes of control found in the register, and the price read from the buyer's own accounts.

The whole list

Free and Full have the same pages and the same tools. Full adds the data behind the headline figures.

Search Free

  • One box over companies, lenders and advisers
  • Suggestions while typing
  • A company number goes straight to its page
  • Near spellings tried when nothing matches

Companies Free

  • Every company, narrowed by name, sector, size, growth, borrowing and owner
  • Sorted by any column
  • A sentence on what each company does, its customers and its offering
  • Town, postcode area, sector and age
  • Latest turnover and employees
  • The market at a glance: counts and rankings by sector and size
  • Companies in insolvency, and those that have left the register, dated

Accounts Full

  • Profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow and staff as statements
  • Every year filed, side by side
  • Turnover, gross profit, operating profit, profit before tax
  • Net assets, cash, creditors, staff costs
  • Growth on the year and over three years
  • Gross, operating and pre-tax margins
  • Turnover a head and pay a head
  • Each figure beside its sector's median
  • What has changed lately
  • The nearest companies of its sector by size
  • Figures that are not to be relied on are flagged, with the reason

The filed accounts Full

  • Read inside the app, beside the figures
  • Find within them, scanned accounts included
  • Each customer's own marks, saved to their account
  • Keyboard throughout, with vim's keys
  • Download as PDF
  • A link to every filing at Companies House

Owners and the board Full

  • Today's owners and former owners
  • The companies a company owns: a plc's private subsidiaries, each with its own accounts
  • Corporate owners followed to their own pages, up to a listed parent
  • The board as the register has it, with ages
  • Screens by the eldest owner or director
  • A page for an owner or buyer we do not yet follow, read in on request

Lenders and charges Full

  • Every charge, outstanding and satisfied
  • The lender behind each
  • A directory of lenders
  • A lender's page: its borrowers and the deals it financed
  • Lending by quarter and by class of lender
  • Screens on the last charge registered

Deals Full

  • Deals found by company or by buyer
  • The price, and where in the buyer's accounts it was read
  • Cash paid, deferred and contingent consideration
  • The multiple of turnover and of profit, beside the sector's
  • Turnover before the deal and since
  • The sellers, and the buyer's other deals
  • Advisers, lenders and fees
  • Deals like it, and what was written of it elsewhere
  • Deal statistics by quarter, sector and kind
  • The dates and kinds of deals, on Free

Funding rounds Full

  • Rounds read from share allotments
  • The amount raised and the price a share
  • A valuation for each, with how far it is to be trusted
  • Each round checked against the share premium in the accounts after it
  • Every round across every company, as one list

Advisers Full

  • Accountants, law firms, deal advisers and agents
  • A page per firm: its clients and the deals it advised
  • Firms that trade under several names merged into one
  • Rankings of the most active

Public contracts Full

  • Contracts won from the public sector, on the company's page

Screens Free

  • Ask in words: an AI model writes the screen, to be read and run
  • Or write it by hand, in a small language of its own
  • The screen is always shown, so nothing is taken on trust
  • Ready-made screens: fast growers, profitable and unborrowed, owners nearing retirement, newly borrowed, young and large, and more
  • Customers' own sums: turnover a head, any ratio of two figures
  • Screens of companies and of deals
  • Around a hundred figures to screen on, with Full
  • Keep a screen and come back to it

Lists and downloads Free

  • A shortlist of starred companies
  • CSV of any list, screen or shortlist
  • CSV of a company's accounts, every year
  • Any row clicked through to its company, deal or firm

The rest Free

  • Works on a phone, and can be added to its home screen
  • Light and dark
  • Nothing to install
  • A support button on every page, answered by the people who built it
  • A message when something a customer reported is fixed
  • People's names veiled; directors shown as the register has them

All of it for one monthly price

There is no annual contract, and customers may cancel at any time.

Free

£0 for ever

  • Every company, found by name or number
  • Each company's latest turnover, employees, town and sector
  • Lists, screens and downloads over those headline figures
  • Deals as they happen: the company, the date and the kind
Start free

Full

£24.99 a month + VAT

  • Everything in Free
  • Accounts over the years: profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow
  • Owners, the board, lenders, charges and advisers
  • Every deal's buyer and price, and the deal statistics
  • Lenders, advisers and investors, each with its clients, holdings and deals
  • Screens over every figure, and of deals
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Bought like software, not like a data contract.

DittabaseEnterprise data platforms, typically
The pricePublished: £24.99 a month + VATBy quotation
Getting startedCreate an account and start searching straight awayA sales call and a demonstration first
CommitmentMonthly, cancellable at any timeAn annual contract, often longer
Before payingA free plan with no time limitA trial, on request
Who can buy itAnyoneSold to teams and institutions

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