Succession Radar reads the public register the way a buyer does — who controls the company, how old they are, and whether anyone is standing behind them. Filter a region and a sector, and get the businesses where the ownership is running out of road.
Three results free, so you can see the shape of it. No card until you want the full list.
A 68-year-old sole owner and a 68-year-old owner with a young management team need completely different conversations. The product separates them rather than dumping both into a spreadsheet.
Nobody younger on the register. One decision-maker, no visible successor. The cleanest signal and usually the shortest route to a straight acquisition.
Older owners hold more than half. A junior team already exists but almost certainly can't fund a buyout. Your opening is financing the deal, not replacing the people.
Several older holders, no majority. Harder — every party has to agree — but retirements tend to arrive together, which makes the timing real.
Everything here is public record. The work is in reading it properly — particularly the part Companies House doesn't expose as data.
Built from the bulk register by postcode area, so nothing is missed because a town name wasn't in the search box.
Ages from published month-and-year dates of birth. Always shown as approximate, because the day is withheld by law.
Read from the filed confirmation statement, which carries real percentages rather than the 25–50% bands in the PSC register.
Press on the shortlisted companies, so you know about the award, the expansion or the county court judgment before you write.
Connect Succession Radar to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or anything else that speaks the Model Context Protocol, and ask about the cohorts you have built in your own words. The figures come out of the same database the dashboard reads, and the assistant is told to quote them rather than work them out — so what you get back is your data, not a language model's impression of it.
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Across your manufacturing cohorts, 171 of 914 companies are signal-positive. 95 of those are full exits — one decision-maker, nobody younger on the register.
By age of the eldest controller: 140 in the 60–64 bracket, 14 in 65–69, 8 in 70–74 and 9 at 75 or over.
Figures computed by Succession Radar and quoted, not derived. Counts only — no company named, nobody identified. Companies House data under the Open Government Licence.
How many companies in my manufacturing cohort have nobody younger on the register?
Counts and age bands. The size of the cohort, how many carry each signal, and how the eldest controllers fall across five-year brackets — without listing a single company.
Show me the five oldest-owner companies in Greater Manchester, with what their accounts say.
Rows, capped and attributed. Signal, confidence, filed figures, charges and the score with its working — exactly the record the dashboard would show you.
Take company 01430856 — why did it score the way it did?
One company, and the reasoning. Every factor carries its own detail line, so the assistant can explain the score instead of guessing at it.
It answers about companies, never about people. No names, no dates of birth, no officer or PSC records travel this route — ages appear only as approximate figures and bands attached to a company. Anyone who has asked to be removed is invisible to it, the same as everywhere else. And it reads what you have already built: it does not run cohorts, and it never queries Companies House on your behalf.
One product, two ways to buy. Cohorts rebuild nightly.
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Names, approximate dates of birth and registered addresses come from the public register, but they still describe real people. Succession Radar operates under a documented legitimate interests assessment, publishes an Article 14 privacy notice, and keeps a suppression list.
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