Scout watches every UK company live — 1,478,438 owner-led businesses scored against 17.7 million company-years of filed history — and puts a calibrated probability on the one that matters: who's heading for a sale.
The scout has one job: continuous, round-the-clock intake of company events, processed the second they're published. When a business files, changes hands or takes on debt, the index already reflects it — so what you're looking at isn't a database that gets refreshed. It's a live picture of the market.
Under the live layer sits the whole history — every account, every ownership move, for every company, as it looked at the time. We keep it point-in-time so the past can be replayed without hindsight. And because we hold the full corpus, everything we claim is an exact measurement over it — never a heuristic invented on the spot. Numbers, not adjectives.
Every Monday Scout deals a fresh pack of scored companies, free to work: the model's read on the card, the full dossier behind it once you're signed in — filings, owners, balance-sheet history. Four of this week's, live from the index:
Behind every number: models trained on the full history, calibrated on a year they never saw — when Scout says 10%, close to 10% happen.
Register free and your weekly pack opens in full — plus 10 unlocks on the house. When a company looks right, unlock it for keeps: the name, the numbers, the why, and live monitoring of its every register move from that day on. Plans are a number of unlocks a month; only the cards you choose to open count.
No card. Prefer a human? Talk to us — a person reads every message.
Everyone else in this market sells you access to a database and wishes you luck with it. Scout runs the whole distance — predicts the event, names the shape, finds the person behind it, encodes your thesis, and delivers the result into the room where you actually work.
A directory catalogues what a company is. Scout puts a calibrated probability on what it does next — a real event, a real horizon, a number you can act on. When Scout says 10%, close to 10% happen, and we'll be held to that. Ask any other provider to stand behind their score that way.
A leaderboard tells you the order and hides the reason. Scout maps the market into 43 named archetypes — succession windows, cash fortresses, quiet compounders — each with a measured track record. You hunt a story you recognise, can defend to an investment committee, and can run again next quarter.
Companies don't sell themselves — owners sell them. So the same lens turns on the individuals: who is quietly selling down a portfolio, who is assembling one, who has exited twice already. A business can look perfectly steady while the person controlling it is unmistakably on the way out. No filing-level tool sees that.
Nobody's mandate fits somebody else's filters. Tell us the shape you hunt and we encode it as a pattern of your own — run across the entire index and its full history, backtested so you can see how it would have performed, then kept screened live for good. Not a saved search. A permanent instrument built to your strategy.
Matches shouldn't wait on a dashboard for you to remember to log in. The moment a company crosses into your pattern, it reaches you — in your chat, in your inbox, as a briefed list ready for the call. Put a named company under watch and every register move it makes arrives the day it happens. Origination becomes something that runs, not something you do.
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