It rebuilds a company's statutory books from its full filing history, checks them against the Companies Act, and hands you the registers — plus a clear list of the questions where things don't reconcile.
No card required. What takes hours of trawling filing histories, in under two minutes.
No spreadsheets, no trawling through filing histories. Enter a company and Vellum does the forensic work.
Name or number. Vellum pulls the full live Companies House record — every officer, filing and capital event since incorporation.
Directors, members, PSCs and registered office, rebuilt with their full history — not just today's snapshot.
Checked against the Companies Act. You get the registers and a clear list of what doesn't reconcile, with the law behind it.
Anyone can copy what Companies House shows. The valuable part is knowing where it's wrong — and Companies House can contradict itself. Vellum doesn't pretend the books are clean. It tells you exactly where they aren't, and what to ask.
You're where the registers are legally kept. Keep every client's books defensible, catch problems before they bite — and find the remedial work hiding in them.
For firms →Clean the register before the deal, not during it. A broken share history is exactly what a buyer's solicitor uses to chip the price at the eleventh hour.
For deal teams →Know your own books are actually right — not just what Companies House happens to display. Peace of mind today, sale-readiness tomorrow.
For owners →Nobody looks at the statutory books until something goes wrong — and by then it's expensive. Here's what an unreviewed register actually risks.
A buyer's solicitor who finds a broken share history uses it to renegotiate — or delay completion while it's fixed.
Dividends paid as if shares exist that were never validly allotted can be unlawful distributions under s.830 — a real liability.
Registers are a legal requirement. Most companies don't keep them — until a dispute, an audit or a sale forces the issue.
One credit, one full review. Start with three on the house — no card, no commitment.
Payment isn't switched on yet — the tool is free to try right now. Pricing indicative, to be confirmed.
The live Companies House record — public data today, and the authenticated Companies House API for fuller detail as we add it. We don't scrape; we read the official source.
No. Vellum surfaces discrepancies and the relevant section of the Companies Act so you — or your adviser — can act on them. It's a tool for professionals, not a replacement for them.
Every finding is framed as a question to verify, never an accusation, and is grounded in a specific Companies Act provision. The logic is built with company-secretarial expertise, not guesswork.
Handled. Vellum applies the Companies Act 2006 and, for older companies, the 1985 Act and its form numbers, using the rules in force at the time of each event.
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