The owner is 68. Nobody else on the register is under 50.
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 companies where control is running out of road.
Three results free, so you can see the shape of it. No card until you want the full list.
Active companies already carrying a succession signal, at the 60+ threshold
A region and a sector in. A scored list out.
The dashboard, playing a cohort build on five invented companies: choose, build, then read the working behind a row.
| Working | Score | Company | Signal | Eldest age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pick a postcode area and a sector. | ||||
Illustrative cohort: five invented companies, numbered in a range Companies House does not issue. The table is the product’s own renderer, so what it shows is what a subscriber sees.
Every factor carries its own detail line, so the score can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Corporate financeOwner-managed companies where control sits with people past 60 and nobody younger is on the register, area by area.
BrokersThe succession signal, the live charges and each charge's anniversary on the same record.
Accountancy firmsWhich companies in your area have no younger controller on record, so the succession conversation can start early.
Three shapes of opportunity, not one list
A company with a sole holder over 65 and a company with an ageing majority above a young management team need completely different conversations. The product separates them rather than dumping both into a spreadsheet.
Full exit
Nobody younger on the register. One decision-maker, no visible successor. The cleanest signal and usually the shortest route to a straight acquisition.
Aging majority
Older holders hold more than half. A junior team already exists but almost certainly cannot fund a buyout. The opening is financing the deal, not replacing the people.
Co-equal aging
Several older holders, no majority. Harder — every party has to agree — but retirements tend to arrive together, which makes the timing real.
One record per shape, as the product renders it
Where the numbers come from: ages, shareholdings and the score’s working →
From a list to a first letter
The list is where the work starts. Each record carries what you need for the approach — where the company is, how to reach it, what to check before you write — and keeps track of it afterwards. Succession Radar sends nothing itself: every letter and call is yours.
See where they are
A cohort plots on a map by registered office postcode, so a run of visits can be planned around a cluster. For plenty of small companies that postcode is the accountant’s rather than the works, and the map says so.
Hear when something changes
Watch one company, or every company on screen. A nightly digest reports what they filed — a director appointed or resigned, a change of control, a charge registered or satisfied — as one email rather than a message per filing.
Find the company’s own front door
Find website ranks the candidate sites with the reason for each, such as the registered postcode or company number on the page, and you confirm the right one. It then reads that site for the switchboard, general mailboxes like info@ and trading addresses, each with the page it came from. Never a mobile, never a personal address.
Look the company up on LinkedIn
One click opens LinkedIn’s company search for the name in a new tab, with “Limited” taken off, since LinkedIn pages rarely carry it. Nothing is read from LinkedIn, nothing comes back, and LinkedIn is not told which list the click came from.
Write in your own name
Draft letter starts a first letter from the record, to the registered office or an address from the confirmed website, printed with your details and never on our paper. Before you send, it lists what the register says to check: an estate on the company, a parent company in control, ownership that is only estimated, an office shared with other companies.
Keep the thread
Log each letter posted, call, email and meeting with a date and a note, and keep notes on the company that no other subscriber sees. When a company asks not to be contacted, record it, and letters and contact details for it stop for you.
Beside every record, too: valuation and funding — an asset floor from the filed accounts, an earnings range only once you enter an EBITDA figure, and the regional funds worth checking, with those that finance acquisitions marked. On the annual licence, CSV export takes the list into your own systems.
The approach is yours, and so are its rules. Succession Radar contacts nobody. Letters go out in your name, and if you telephone or email, the rules on direct marketing apply to you as the sender, including screening against the Corporate Telephone Preference Service. The dashboard says so where it matters.
Ask it from the assistant you already use
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.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
- VS Code
- Windsurf
- and any client that speaks MCP
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. An illustrative exchange: the cohort and its counts are invented.
Five rows from your Greater Manchester cohorts, by the eldest controller's band, each with what its latest filed accounts say:
- 99014382 · Full exit75 or over · net assets £1.42m, rising three years · 1 live charge
- 99207715 · Aging majority70–74 · net assets £868k, flat · no live charge
- 99450127 · Co-equal aging70–74 · net assets £712k, rising · 2 live charges
- 99118240 · Full exit65–69 · filleted accounts, no P&L filed · 1 live charge
- 99332906 · Full exit65–69 · net assets £2.1m, single-year jump flagged
Rows capped at 25 a call and 500 a day, attributed, and quoted from the dashboard's own records. Controllers appear as counts and bands, never as people. An illustrative exchange: every company here is invented.
82 of 100, with 78% of the factors evidenced. The working, factor by factor:
- No materially younger active controller has been identified in the public corporate-control graph.+30
- Equity read exactly from the filed confirmation statement: 72% with one holder in the 65–69 band.+18
- Net assets have risen three consecutive years; no single-year jump.+16
- One live charge, created 44 months ago; its anniversary is in four months.+10
- Filleted accounts: no profit and loss filed, so earnings are not public.coverage −22
The score describes what the register shows, never intent, and every number is a stored server field. An illustrative exchange: the company is invented.
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.
Pricing
One product, two ways to buy. Cohorts rebuild nightly.
Succession Radar operates under a documented legitimate interests assessment, publishes an Article 14 privacy notice, and keeps a suppression list.
- 3 results per cohort
- Signal type and age bands
- PSC ownership bands
- No card required
- Unlimited results, every sector and region
- Exact shareholdings from filings
- Outreach letters and tracking
- Rolling — cancel any time
- No CSV export
£588 for 12 months, billed today. Saves £1,200 a year against rolling monthly, and includes export.
- Everything in monthly access
- CSV export — take the data into your own systems
- AI assistant connector — ask your cohorts questions from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
- News on every shortlisted company
- Nightly change alerts
For taking the data into your own systems, and for teams. A bespoke region or sector build is quoted separately.
- Everything in the annual licence
- The API — your cohorts and company records as JSON, read-only, by key
- More than one user, arranged with you
- Removals applied in every response, as on screen
Questions people ask
Is this lawful?
Succession Radar operates under a documented legitimate interests assessment, publishes an Article 14 privacy notice, and keeps a suppression list. Findings attach to companies, never to named individuals, and every figure comes from the public register. Read the privacy notice.
Where do the ages come from?
From the month and year of birth the register publishes for directors and persons with significant control. The day is withheld by law, so every age is approximate and is shown as a band.
Does it tell me who wants to sell?
No. It shows likelihood from the register: who controls a company, how old they are, and whether anyone younger is standing behind them. It never states or infers intent.
How fresh is it?
Cohorts rebuild nightly from the bulk register, and every figure shown carries its snapshot date. Exact shareholdings are read from each company's filed confirmation statement as it is filed, about once a year per company.
Can I take the data into my own systems?
CSV export and the AI assistant connector are on the annual licence. Monthly access is unlimited on screen. The API is on the enterprise licence, £6,000 a year, which also covers more than one user.
Can someone ask to be removed?
Yes. The removal page takes an objection from any person or company, and suppression applies across every customer's view immediately, including the assistant connector.
Who built this
Built by PromptWorks
Succession Radar is a product of PromptWorks AI Ltd, a UK software product studio. Founder-led, clearly scoped, built with the people who use it.
About the people in these records
This is personal data, and it is handled as such
Names, approximate dates of birth and registered addresses come from the public register, but they still describe real people.
If your details appear here and you do not want them to, ask us to remove them. Suppression applies across every customer’s view, immediately.