AGILE (UK) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05489377 · ltd · incorporated 2005-06-23
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
59 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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Net Worth
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30

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
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-06-28
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  4. 2024-06-28
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2024-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-02-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-12-06
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2022-02-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-11-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-06-10
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  11. 2020-06-10
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  12. 2020-06-10
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  13. 2020-02-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-11-18
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2019-01-13
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  16. 2019-01-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-01-01
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    GILES, Luke Daniel appointed
    director
  18. 2005-06-23
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    Company incorporated
    As AGILE (UK) LIMITED
  19. 2005-06-23
    ➕
    GILES, Susan appointed
    secretary
  20. 2005-06-23
    ➕
    GILES, Alastair appointed
    director
  21. 2005-06-23
    ➕
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2005-06-23
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    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2005-06-23
    ➕
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  24. 2005-06-23
    ➖
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

84/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

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

Group structure

Agile Ideas Group Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Agile Ideas Group Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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AGILE (UK) LIMITED
This company · 05489377

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Agile Ideas Group Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares12/11/2019
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Alastair Gilesceased 12/11/2019· 50-75% shares
  • Mrs Susan Gilesceased 12/11/2019· 25-50% shares

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2005-06-23
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Registered office

Glove Factory Studios
1 Brook Lane
Holt
Wiltshire
BA14 6RL
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-24
Last: 2026-06-10

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

GILES, Susan→
secretary · appointed 2005-06-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GILES, Alastair→
director · ~62y · appointed 2005-06-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GILES, Luke Daniel→
director · ~39y · appointed 2019-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2005-06-23 · resigned 2005-06-23
Resigned
COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2005-06-23 · resigned 2005-06-23
Resigned

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Recent filings (59 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-06-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-28
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-06-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-02-06
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-02-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-11-03