Research report · updated 15 August 2026
Capital, company and public-record boundaries
Object ownership, match methods and publication decisions across UK Capital Intelligence and CompanyBeacon.
Object contract
One object, one primary product
UK Capital Intelligence owns company, funding and investor discovery. CompanyBeacon owns statutory entity, filing, public-contract, charity and control masters. Official registers remain authoritative. The machine-readable contract is published at object-ownership.json.
| Object | Primary product | UKCI use | CompanyBeacon use |
|---|---|---|---|
| growth company research record | UK Capital Intelligence | Canonical capital-discovery record | Exact legal-entity projection only |
| funding round | UK Capital Intelligence | Dated disclosed round with source trail | Not a master object |
| investor and company investor relationship | UK Capital Intelligence | Canonical investor, role, date and source evidence | Fund associations remain separate and do not prove current holdings |
| companies house entity and change event | CompanyBeacon | Exact-number status/check projection and link to the CompanyBeacon timeline | Master statutory identity, filing and status-change experience |
| lei legal entity | CompanyBeacon | Exact Companies House-number projection | Master LEI identity projection and renewal context |
| public contract award and supplier | CompanyBeacon | Exact-number procurement signal on a growth-company record | Master supplier, buyer and award notice object |
| ownership and control | CompanyBeacon | Link out only; no officer or PSC people copied | Live public-register timeline with source caveats |
| regional indicator | Shared public-data projection | Context beside reported headquarters; never a company score | National operating-context reports |
| charity link | CompanyBeacon | Publish only a future exact company-number overlap | Master charity/company projection |
| social enterprise classification | Unassigned | Not inferred from charity status or names | Not published without a dedicated licensed identifier source |
| growth signal | UK Capital Intelligence | Derived only from dated funding, exact procurement and registry observations; never performance | Provides statutory inputs, not the capital interpretation |
Estate assessment
Coverage, date and match method
Zero coverage stays zero. Social-enterprise status and beneficial ownership are not inferred. CompanyBeacon portfolio membership does not prove a current holding.
| Layer | Coverage | Source date | Match method | Publication decision | Named source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investor portfolios | 2,243 retained links; 2,243 carry a named URL | 2026-07-09 | Reviewed canonical company and investor alias resolution | UKCI publishes; CompanyBeacon fund associations stay separate | Investor directory → |
| Companies House changes | 129 exact overlaps; 2 recorded status changes | 2026-08-15T10:32:13.567Z | Exact Companies House number | CompanyBeacon owns the timeline; UKCI shows a dated signal and link | CompanyBeacon method ↗ |
| LEIs | 52 exact legal-entity identifiers | 2026-08-11 | Exact RA000585 Companies House identifier | CompanyBeacon owns the master; UKCI projects identifiers | GLEIF golden copy ↗ |
| Public contracts | 57 notices across 20 growth companies | 2026-07-13 | Exact Companies House number in supplier identifier | CompanyBeacon owns awards and suppliers; UKCI derives procurement signals | Contracts Finder ↗ |
| Ownership and control | No PSC or officer people copied into UKCI | 2026-08-15T10:32:13.567Z | No UKCI ownership join | CompanyBeacon owns the live control view; UKCI links out | CompanyBeacon ownership method ↗ |
| Regional indicators | 432 headquarters records mapped across 11 published regions | Jun 2026 | Explicit retained city-to-ONS-region rule | UKCI publishes context, never a company score | Nomis regional data ↗ |
| Charities | 0 exact overlaps in this growth-company set | 2026-07-25T14:57:34.153Z | Exact Companies House number only | CompanyBeacon owns the charity/company object; zero means no claim | Charity Commission register ↗ |
| Social enterprises | No dedicated licensed identifier source in the current projection | 2026-08-15 | No match attempted | Not published; charity status is not used as a proxy | Publication decision → |
| Growth and procurement signals | Funding chronology, exact awards, registry observations and regional context | 2026-08-15 | Derived only from the relationship methods above | UKCI owns the dated interpretation; no performance score | UKCI method → |