Check a UK Company Through Companies House

Through an AnythingMCP custom connector, your muse can check a UK company in the official Companies House register in plain words: read its profile, see who runs it, and look at what it has filed.

What it does

Companies House is the official register of companies in the United Kingdom, and it is free to search. The connector adds 4 tools. The muse can search the register by company name or number, fetch the full profile for one company, list its directors, secretaries, and other officers, current and resigned, and list its filing history, covering accounts, yearly confirmation statements, officer appointments, and share issues. That is the basic check to run before you pay a new UK supplier or sign with a small UK firm, so you can see it exists, is still active, and who runs it.

How to use it

1. Start an AnythingMCP account and add the UK Companies House connector.
2. Register a free account on the Companies House developer site, create an application and a REST key, and enter the key only where the connector asks.
3. In Muse, open Settings, then Connectors, and add a custom connector with the MCP server address AnythingMCP gives you. Sign in and approve.
4. Check the setup by asking the muse to search for a company you already know, and compare the profile with the register page.
5. For a real check, ask for the profile, the current officers, and the recent filings all at once, and read all three together.

What you need

• A Muse account that can add custom connectors
• An AnythingMCP account with the UK Companies House connector added
• A free Companies House developer account and API key
• The name or the company number of the UK company you want to check

What to watch for

• The register shows what a company has filed, in the form it filed it. A clean history is a good sign, but it is not a credit check and does not tell you whether a firm pays its bills on time.
• The free API allows 600 requests in five minutes. One check uses only a few, but a long list in one burst can hit the limit.
• Company numbers are eight characters and may start with zeros, which matter. If a name search finds several similar firms, match the number before you trust the profile.
• This is a custom connector, and Meta does not review custom connectors. You can disconnect it in Settings at any time. The muse prepares, you decide.