MANDA INSTITUTE

Who owns it, and who runs it, from the register.

The officers and persons with significant control a United Kingdom company has filed with Companies House, the parent and child companies GLEIF records against it, and company level succession signals worked out from the filed dates. Every entry carries the date it was filed and the date the register was read, refreshed every Saturday at 03:00 Amsterdam time. Where the register lists nobody, the view says not recorded.

What the ownership view shows
One card on a company or a deal, in four parts: the ownership chain, the current officers, the persons with significant control, and the signals. Nothing in it is estimated, scored or drafted by a language model.
The ownership chain, from GLEIF
Where a Legal Entity Identifier is registered against the company number, the card walks the direct parent and ultimate parent relationships GLEIF records, and lists the entities that record this company as their own direct parent. Each step names GLEIF, the date it was observed and the LEI.
Only a recorded parent is a finding. An LEI with a reporting exception in its place, an LEI whose relationship has not been read, two LEI records on one company number, or no LEI at all are each shown as what they are. None of them is shown as independent, and most small companies have no LEI.
Current officers, as filed
Each current officer as Companies House lists them: the name as filed, the role (director, secretary, and the other roles the register uses), the date appointed, and for a corporate officer its registered number. Officers who resigned in the last 3 years sit under a separate heading with their resignation date; older resignations are not kept.
Under the list the card prints the counts the register itself publishes for active and resigned appointments, so a reader can see the list is complete. A company the register records as dissolved shows its officers under that status, not as current.
Persons with significant control, as notified
Each person or entity the company has notified as holding significant control, with the natures of control the register records (for example ownership of shares, 75 to 100 percent, or the right to appoint and remove directors), the date notified and, where ceased, the date ceased. A company that has filed a statement instead of a person, for instance that it has no one with significant control or is still identifying them, shows that statement with its filing date.
Succession signals, each with its basis
Fixed rules over the filed dates, and nothing else. Long serving leadership means a current director appointed 15 or more whole years before the register snapshot. Recent leadership change means a director appointed or resigned within the last 12 months. Single director means exactly one. Control concentrated means one person with significant control holding 75 percent or more. Owner managed means a person with significant control whose filed name matches a current director's.
Each signal prints the one line it rests on, with the dates. A signal describes the company, never a person; there is no score, no ranking and nothing about anyone's wealth. When no rule applies, the card says so and treats that as no finding.
Two figures, written with their source
The number of active officers the register publishes, and the longest current director tenure in whole years, are written to the platform's observation store with the Companies House source, the date the register was read and a sentence saying how each was worked out. The card prints the observation id beside each so it can be traced.
Where it appears
On the owner's valuation results under Benchmarks, once the company is attached to its Companies House record by entering the company number. On a listing page for a buyer who has signed the confidentiality agreement on that deal. And on a buyer's mandate matches, for a register company one of their mandates matched, on request. Never on a public page, never in the assistant, and never in link previews or the sitemap.
Four steps, in the order they happen
Attach the company to its register record
On the Benchmarks tab, enter the company's Companies House number. The register is read once to confirm the number exists, then its officers and persons with significant control are read straight away. A number the register does not know is refused with that answer, and a company recorded outside the United Kingdom is told which registers can be read today.
Read the chain, then the people
Read the ownership chain first: it says whether GLEIF records an owner or why it cannot say. Then the officers and the persons with significant control, each with the date filed and the date read. Then the signals, each with the dates behind it.
Kept current on a schedule
Refreshed every Saturday at 03:00 Amsterdam time for the United Kingdom companies held, oldest read first, and again whenever a sector ingest stores new register companies. An officer or person the register no longer lists is removed on the next successful read. Staff are alerted when the scheduled run does not take place.
Retention runs on the same schedule
Resigned and ceased entries are removed 3 years after that date. A list the register has not answered for in 2 years is removed, each list on its own clock; a refused read keeps nothing alive. A person who objects has their entries removed and the register's reference for them recorded, so they are not read back; the view then says how many entries are withheld, and the register itself continues to publish them.
What the software reads, and what it cannot see
Companies House, through its official interface
Officers and persons with significant control are read from the Companies House public data interface, for the United Kingdom only, and only through the access key the register issued. Nothing is scraped. The register data is published under the Open Government Licence; the entries are what the company filed, and we have not checked them.
Kept to what the view needs
Of what the register publishes about a person we keep the name as filed, the role or kind of control, the dates, the natures of control and the register's reference. Dates of birth, addresses, nationalities, occupations and countries of residence are dropped at the boundary, and the register's raw response is not stored. The data protection note that governs this is summarised in our privacy policy.
GLEIF records
Other countries
No language model
Where it stops
Where the register lists no officers or no persons with significant control, the view says not recorded. Where a read failed, it says so and infers nothing. Where the company has not yet been read, it says not yet read. None of these is shown as independent, as none, or as a finding of any kind.
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