AEROSYS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
06722033 · ltd · incorporated 2008-10-13
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 Mar 2025
Net worth
£5.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
PursueAsset-holding vehicle with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
51 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.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)Positive net assets
Net assets £5,287
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
£5k
↑ 2639% YoY
Current Assets
£128k
↑ 12% YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £39.1k | £40.6k |
| Current assets | £127.8k | £113.9k |
| Net assets | £5.3k | £193 |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2025-07-19📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2025-07-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2025-06-11📄dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspendeddissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
- 2025-05-27📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2024-03-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-03-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-03-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-03-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-07-01➕OLGUIN CIGARROA, Maria Antonieta appointeddirector
- 2020-07-01📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2020-03-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-10-11📄accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AAMD
- 2019-04-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-03-06📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2019-03-05📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2018-09-10📄accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AAMD
- 2017-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2008-10-13🏢Company incorporatedAs AEROSYS LIMITED
- 2008-10-13➕SURGENOR, Alan Bristowe appointeddirector
Owner dependency
81/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
- +No director turnover: Company is 18 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.
Succession & seller-readiness
79/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
1 active beneficial owner| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Alan Bristowe Surgenor Individual · British · DOB 08/1962 · age 64 | 50–75% | 50–75% | board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2008-10-13
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC71122 — Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities
Registered office
21 Somersham
Welwyn Garden City
AL7 2PZ
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-27
Last: 2025-10-13
Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)
OLGUIN CIGARROA, Maria Antonieta→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2020-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SURGENOR, Alan Bristowe→
Activedirector · ~64y · appointed 2008-10-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
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Recent filings (51 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-25
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2025-07-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-07-18
dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspended
dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
2025-06-11
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2025-05-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-03-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-18