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UK M&A Lead Generation Pipeline (Demo)
Automatically finds UK business owners who may be considering exit, acquisition, or PE fundraising β every single day, zero maintenance.
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UK M&A Lead Generation Pipeline
Built in under 60 minutes live by Saad Belcaid.
Automatically finds UK business owners who may be considering exit, acquisition, or PE fundraising β every single day, zero maintenance.
What it does
Every day, Companies House publishes bulk financial accounts for thousands of UK businesses. This actor:
- Downloads the daily bulk XBRL file (~90MB, ~24,000 accounts)
- Finds companies with Β£1M+ EBITDA (roughly ~13 per day)
- Enriches each company with director names, ownership data, and SIC codes via the free Companies House API
- Outputs qualified leads with decision-maker names ready for outreach
- Deduplicates across runs so you never see the same company twice
Projected output: ~3,250 qualified leads per year.
How to use (5 minutes)
Step 1: Get a free API key
Go to developer.company-information.service.gov.uk, create an account, and create a new REST API key. It's free, no credit card needed.
Step 2: Run the actor
- Paste your API key into the Companies House API Key field
- Click Start
- Wait ~10-15 minutes
- Check the Dataset tab for your leads
Step 3: Set up daily runs (optional)
Go to Schedules and create one:
- Cron:
0 8 * * 2-6(runs 8am UTC, Tuesday to Saturday β when filings are published) - Memory: 1024 MB
- Timeout: 30 minutes
That's it. Leads show up in your dataset every morning.
What you get per lead
| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| Company name | ACME Engineering Ltd |
| Company number | 12345678 |
| SIC codes + descriptions | 71121 β Engineering design activities |
| Registered address | 123 High Street, Manchester, M1 1AA |
| EBITDA estimate | Β£1,750,000 |
| Turnover | Β£5,200,000 |
| Employees | 45 |
| Directors | John Smith (appointed 2015, British) |
| Owners (PSC) | John Smith β 75-100% shares |
| Decision makers | John Smith |
Optional filters
- Minimum EBITDA: Change the threshold (default Β£1M)
- Target SIC codes: Only get leads from specific industries (e.g.
62012for software companies) - SIC prefixes: Match whole sectors (e.g.
62gets all IT companies) - Backfill: Set a past date to process older filings
How it works under the hood
- Parses XBRL financial filings using the UK Government's own
stream-read-xbrllibrary - EBITDA = operating profit + depreciation (conservative floor estimate)
- Rate-limits API calls to stay within Companies House's 600 req/5min limit
- Traces corporate ownership chains to find the actual individual behind holding companies
- Stores seen companies in a persistent key-value store so duplicates never appear
Built by Saad Belcaid. Data sourced from Companies House (public record).
