AI PROCESS SYSTEMS LIMITED

📈Growthactive
02155966 · ltd · incorporated 1987-08-20
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 35.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£10.62M
year to Dec 2024
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Engineering design activities for industrial process and production
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Leverage-led grower with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · oldest 35.3y

75/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 35.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (5 active, 10 linked, 9 with DOB)
88
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
128 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £773,966
Turnover YoY
+3%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
—
Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Turnover£10.62M£10.29M
Gross profit—£1.70M
Operating profit£447.1k£-103.9k
Profit before tax£774.0k£65.4k
Average employees201800

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 resolution
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 resolution
  • • 1 capital
Last 180 days
9
filings
  • • 3 capital
  • • 2 resolution
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-15
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  2. 2026-04-27
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    capital-alter-shares-subdivision
    capital · SH02
  3. 2026-03-02
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  4. 2026-03-02
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2026-02-26
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  6. 2026-02-10
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    capital-cancellation-shares
    capital · SH06
  7. 2026-02-10
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    capital-return-purchase-own-shares
    capital · SH03
  8. 2026-01-23
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  9. 2026-01-16
    ➖
    CRAGGS, Ian Douglas, Mr resigned
    director
  10. 2025-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2024-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2023-08-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2023-01-05
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  14. 2023-01-01
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    ARNOTT, James Anthony appointed
    director
  15. 2022-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2021-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2021-09-28
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  18. 2021-07-31
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    WOODWARD, Alan Jeffrey resigned
    director
  19. 2020-05-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2020-01-08
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    PARRY, Bobbie Leonora appointed
    director
  21. 2020-01-08
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  22. 2020-01-08
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  23. 2020-01-01
    ➕
    PARRY, Lee Michael appointed
    director
  24. 2005-10-07
    ➖
    GABRIEL, Philip resigned
    director
  25. 2005-01-04
    ➕
    GABRIEL, Philip appointed
    director
  26. 2002-08-21
    ➕
    WOODWARD, Alan Jeffrey appointed
    director
  27. 2001-11-30
    ➖
    BROWN, Peter resigned
    director
  28. 2000-03-01
    ➕
    BROWN, Peter appointed
    director
  29. 1998-04-01
    ➖
    PARRY, Bobbie Leonora resigned
    director
  30. 1994-01-27
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  31. 1991-12-13
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  32. 1991-02-27
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  33. 1987-08-20
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As AI PROCESS SYSTEMS LIMITED

Owner dependency

63/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

60/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 39 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Alan Michael Parry
Individual · British · DOB 01/1957 · age 69
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mrs Bobbie Leonora Parry
Individual · British · DOB 09/1962 · age 64
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mrs Anne Veronica Craggsceased 22/10/2018· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Mr Ian Douglas Craggsceased 22/10/2018· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1987-08-20
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC71121 — Engineering design activities for industrial process and production

Registered office

The Corn Mill
Church Street
Barrowford
Lancashire
BB9 6EB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-07
Last: 2026-02-21

Officers (5 active · 5 resigned)

PARRY, Bobbie Leonora→
secretary
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Active
ARNOTT, James Anthony→
director · ~31y · appointed 2023-01-01
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Active
PARRY, Alan Michael→
director · ~69y
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Active
PARRY, Bobbie Leonora→
director · ~64y · appointed 2020-01-08
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Active
PARRY, Lee Michael→
director · ~38y · appointed 2020-01-01
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Active
BROWN, Peter→
director · ~68y · appointed 2000-03-01 · resigned 2001-11-30
Resigned
CRAGGS, Ian Douglas, Mr →
director · ~66y · resigned 2026-01-16
Resigned
GABRIEL, Philip→
director · ~70y · appointed 2005-01-04 · resigned 2005-10-07
Resigned
PARRY, Bobbie Leonora→
director · ~64y · resigned 1998-04-01
Resigned
WOODWARD, Alan Jeffrey→
director · ~72y · appointed 2002-08-21 · resigned 2021-07-31
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Deed of charge over credit balances1 property27/01/1994—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Letter of charge1 property13/12/1991—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Letter of charge1 property27/02/1991—
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Recent filings (128 total)

resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2026-05-15
capital-alter-shares-subdivision
capital · SH02
2026-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-02
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-03-02
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-03-02
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-02-26
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2026-02-10
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2026-02-10
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2026-01-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-27