DEEP TEK LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
SC191642 · ltd · incorporated 1998-12-02
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other engineering activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 18.5y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 18.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
9 connected companies via shared directors
72
Filing history
76 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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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
Average employees200200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  2. 2026-01-15
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  3. 2026-01-15
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  4. 2025-11-30
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    CRAWFORD, Alexander Charles resigned
    director
  5. 2025-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-12-31
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  7. 2024-03-29
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  8. 2023-09-14
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  9. 2023-03-27
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  10. 2021-09-30
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  11. 2020-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  12. 2019-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  13. 2018-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  14. 2017-09-28
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  15. 2016-09-29
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2015-12-14
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  17. 2015-07-23
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    YOUNG-OF-GRAFFHAM, David Ivor, Lord resigned
    director
  18. 2007-10-18
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  19. 2006-06-07
    ➕
    YOUNG-OF-GRAFFHAM, David Ivor, Lord appointed
    director
  20. 1999-02-01
    ➕
    CRAWFORD, Moya Maria appointed
    secretary
  21. 1999-02-01
    ➕
    CRAWFORD, Moya Maria appointed
    director
  22. 1999-02-01
    ➖
    MESSRS THORNTONS WS resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 1999-02-01
    ➕
    CRAWFORD, Alexander Charles appointed
    director
  24. 1999-02-01
    ➖
    HUTCHESON, Iain Henderson resigned
    nominee-director
  25. 1998-12-02
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    Company incorporated
    As DEEP TEK LIMITED
  26. 1998-12-02
    ➕
    MESSRS THORNTONS WS appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  27. 1998-12-02
    ➕
    HUTCHESON, Iain Henderson appointed
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

95/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Moya Maria Crawford
Individual · British · DOB 05/1958 · age 68
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Alexander Charles Crawfordceased 30/11/2025· 50-75% shares

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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1998-12-02
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC71129 — Other engineering activities

Registered office

Kilburns House
Wormit
Newport On Tay
Fife
DD6 8PL

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-16
Last: 2025-12-02

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

CRAWFORD, Moya Maria→
secretary · appointed 1999-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CRAWFORD, Moya Maria→
director · ~68y · appointed 1999-02-01
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Active
MESSRS THORNTONS WS→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-12-02 · resigned 1999-02-01
Resigned
CRAWFORD, Alexander Charles→
director · ~78y · appointed 1999-02-01 · resigned 2025-11-30
Resigned
HUTCHESON, Iain Henderson→
nominee-director · appointed 1998-12-02 · resigned 1999-02-01
Resigned
YOUNG-OF-GRAFFHAM, David Ivor, Lord→
director · ~94y · appointed 2006-06-07 · resigned 2015-07-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property18/10/2007—
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Recent filings (76 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-01-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-26
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-01-15
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-01-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-29
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-09-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-13