Reference & Lookup Data · Integration
Companies House
Add Companies House to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
Embed a Companies House integration so your customers can look up UK company registration data, officers, and filing history from inside your product. fastn handles credentials and API upkeep, and requests are throttled so a bulk verification run does not exhaust an allowance.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Verify a UK company at the point of entry so bad data never lands in your product.
Read officers and persons with significant control for onboarding checks.
Read filing history so your product can flag overdue accounts.
Batch-refresh company records on a schedule with requests throttled.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent verifies a company registration before proceeding.
An agent reads officer records to answer a due-diligence question.
An agent flags a company whose filings are overdue.
Example prompt
Verify these company numbers and list any that are dissolved or have overdue filings.
Set up Companies House in 4 steps
- 01Open the Companies House connector from your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer supply their Companies House API key.
- 03Map the company fields your product stores, then enable the lookup actions you need.
- 04Call them from your product, or expose them to an agent through the MCP server.
Why teams use the Companies House integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a Companies House integration without building it. Your customers connect their own Companies House account inside your product and work their lookups, results and reports there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: these are metered read sources, so an uncached lookup on every page view burns the customer's allowance. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a Companies House update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed Companies House connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you answer questions from an authoritative outside source without holding that data yourself without wiring it twice.
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Companies House integration FAQ
How do I add a Companies House integration to my product?
Enable the Companies House connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own Companies House account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no Companies House client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own Companies House account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own Companies House account and only ever sees their own lookups, results and reports. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this Companies House integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent verifies a company registration before proceeding.
Who maintains the Companies House integration?
fastn does. When Companies House changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Whose credentials does a Companies House lookup run under?
Each customer's own. Quota and cost land on the customer that caused them rather than on a shared key you have to meter and re-bill, and one heavy customer cannot exhaust another's allowance.
How should Companies House results be cached?
Per tenant, with a window that matches how fast the underlying data actually moves. Companies House is a read source rather than a system of record, so the same query returns the same answer until the source changes, and caching is the difference between a sustainable integration and one that exhausts a customer's allowance on a busy page.
What can I build with the Companies House integration?
A common starting point: verify a UK company at the point of entry so bad data never lands in your product. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the Companies House integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding Companies House does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add Companies House to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.