Companies

The list of every legal entity (Ltd, LLP, partnership, charity, etc.) your firm has onboarded. This is the KYB-focused surface — incorporation verification, beneficial-owner mapping, AML screening of the company itself, and (in a later phase) company credit reports.

Where to find it

Sidebar → Companies (the Building icon).

What's shown

Each row gives you:

Company name — registered name, as on Companies House.
Compliance status — current KYB state of this company's file.
Identity / KYB — has the company's incorporation been verified?
Risk — Low / Medium / High based on the latest assessment.
AML — Clear / Hits requiring review / Not run.
Last check — when the AML or BO data was last refreshed.

What you can do here

Add Company — capture company name, registered number, incorporation date, addresses, and (optionally) seed the beneficial owners in the same step.
AML Check — run AML screening against the company name.
Bulk import — CSV import for migrating existing client lists.
Filters — narrow by compliance status, risk, AML, monitoring, or free-text name search.

What makes a company different from an individual

A company file needs evidence the individual file does not:

Incorporation proof — Companies House extract, certificate of incorporation.
Registered office — current registered address.
Directors — current appointment list.
Beneficial owners (BOs) — anyone holding ≥25% ownership or significant control under MLR 2017 reg 5.
Ownership % — recorded per BO, used to flag concentrated control or complex structures.
PSC (Persons with Significant Control) flags — from Companies House PSC register.

That's why Companies has a separate top-level entry, a different profile layout, and (soon) a dedicated Structure tab.

How it relates to Individuals

If a beneficial owner is also someone you have onboarded as an individual client, you can link them so:

Their KYC evidence is referenced from the company's file.
The Compliance Pack export for the company includes their KYC PDF.
The individual's own profile gets a Relationships entry showing every company they're a BO of.

See the Individuals guide for the other side of the link.

What's coming next

Structure tab — visual BO map with ownership %, directors, PSC flags, drawn from Companies House.
Credit & Financials — company credit report, payment history, accounts summary (commercial intelligence, separate from AML).
Group structure — parent / subsidiary relationships for clients that sit in a larger group.