What this app does
In one sentence
Acitinar collects the latest published accounts of UK companies from Companies House and turns them into a tidy list of figures and facts you can search, download and use, without anyone opening the accounts by hand.
The problem it solves
Every UK company files yearly accounts with Companies House, the government's register of companies. The accounts are public, but they are spread over millions of separate documents. Reading even a few hundred of them to note down revenue, cash or the number of employees would take days.
Acitinar does that reading automatically, for as many companies as you give it.
What you get for each company
- The figures from its latest accounts: revenue, profit, cash, assets, debts, net assets, number of employees and more, for the latest year and the year before.
- Company details: name, status (active, dissolved…), address, what the company does (SIC codes), the date it was set up and the type of company.
- Directors: the directors named in the accounts, and which one signed them. Small companies often name only the director who signed.
- Report insights (optional, uses AI): for larger companies that write a directors' or strategic report, their stated plans, risks, opportunities, investment and hiring plans, and any going-concern warning, each with the exact sentence it came from.
How it works, step by step
- You give it a list of companies. Upload a file of company numbers, or type a few numbers on the dashboard.
- Workers fetch the accounts. "Workers" are automatic helpers. Each one uses a Companies House key (a free access pass) to download each company's most recent accounts. More keys means more workers, which means faster processing.
- The figures are read. Most modern accounts are filed in a machine-readable format, so the figures are read exactly as filed, with no guessing and no AI. Accounts filed only as a scanned PDF can't be read this way and are marked PDF only.
- The results are saved. Everything goes into the app's database, where you can see it on the dashboard, open any company, or download a spreadsheet.
- Report insights (optional). If you add an AI key (Google Gemini or OpenAI), the app also reads the written reports of larger companies and pulls out the key points. Every point is checked against the report's own words, so nothing is made up.
The main pages
| Page | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | Add companies, watch progress, see results, download spreadsheets. |
| Check for updates | Keep a watch list of companies and find out when they file newer accounts. |
| Settings | Add Companies House keys and AI keys, and change how the app behaves. |
| Unmapped tags | For specialists: figures in the accounts the app doesn't read yet. |
| Manage records | (Admins) Remove or change many company records at once, with a full preview and undo. |
| Users | (Admins) Decide who can log in, and who is an admin. |
Words you'll see
- Companies House: the UK government's official register of companies, where accounts are filed.
- Company number: the unique number Companies House gives each company, for example 09359129.
- Accounts: the yearly financial statements a company must file.
- Year end: the last day of the year the accounts cover.
- Worker: an automatic helper that fetches and reads accounts, one company at a time.
- API key: a free access pass that lets the app ask Companies House for data.
- Queue: the list of companies waiting to be processed.
- PDF only: accounts filed as a scanned image, from which figures can't be read automatically.
- Dormant: a company that isn't trading, so it has no real figures to read.
- Balance sheet only: small companies may publish only what they own and owe, without their revenue.
- Insights: key points the AI found in a company's written report, each backed by a quote.
Is it safe?
- The app only reads public information from Companies House. It never changes anything there.
- Everyone has to log in. Only admins can delete or change records, and every change can be undone for 30 days.
- Your keys are stored encrypted, and passwords are never stored in readable form.
- AI is used only for the optional report insights, never for the figures.
Need help with a button?
Look for the small ? next to each button or setting. Click it to see what that control does.