INNOVENT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED

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SC226257 · ltd · incorporated 2001-12-13
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
£232.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Information technology consultancy activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -77% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
12 officers (2 active, 12 linked, 9 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
87 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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £232,237
Net assets shrinking
Down £140,960 YoY
Cash draining
Cash down 77% YoY
Cash YoY
-77%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£5k
↓ 77% YoY
Net Worth
£232k
↓ 38% YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
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£0£75k£149k£224k£299k£373kDec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Cash£4.7k£20.4k
Net assets£232.2k£373.2k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

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

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (43 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-05-07
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  3. 2025-03-28
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
  4. 2025-03-10
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    capital · SH06
  5. 2025-03-10
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    capital · SH03
  6. 2024-08-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-07-18
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-04-03
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    officers · AP03
  9. 2023-04-02
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    THOMSON, William Anderson Mccoll appointed
    secretary
  10. 2023-04-02
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    ALEXANDER, Gordon James resigned
    secretary
  11. 2023-04-02
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    ALEXANDER, Gordon James resigned
    director
  12. 2023-04-02
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  13. 2023-04-02
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    officers · TM01
  14. 2023-04-02
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2023-03-17
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  16. 2022-09-02
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    MENNIE, Ian Mckay resigned
    director
  17. 2022-09-02
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  18. 2022-09-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  19. 2022-09-02
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  20. 2022-09-02
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  21. 2022-09-02
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  22. 2022-08-31
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    BAXTER, Graham James resigned
    director
  23. 2022-08-31
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    KENYON, Peter William resigned
    director
  24. 2022-06-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  25. 2022-01-27
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  26. 2021-07-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  27. 2012-10-24
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    MANSON, George Banks resigned
    director
  28. 2008-07-31
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    COLEBROOK, Martyn Hugh resigned
    director
  29. 2007-01-01
    ➕
    COLEBROOK, Martyn Hugh appointed
    director
  30. 2002-05-27
    ➕
    THOMSON, William Anderson Mccoll appointed
    director
  31. 2002-05-27
    ➕
    ALEXANDER, Gordon James appointed
    secretary
  32. 2002-05-27
    ➖
    GLEN, Jeremy Stewart resigned
    nominee-secretary
  33. 2002-05-27
    ➕
    ALEXANDER, Gordon James appointed
    director
  34. 2002-05-27
    ➕
    BAXTER, Graham James appointed
    director
  35. 2002-05-27
    ➖
    DUNN, Alastair Kenneth resigned
    nominee-director
  36. 2002-05-27
    ➖
    GLEN, Jeremy Stewart resigned
    nominee-director
  37. 2002-05-27
    ➕
    KENYON, Peter William appointed
    director
  38. 2002-05-27
    ➕
    MANSON, George Banks appointed
    director
  39. 2002-05-27
    ➕
    MENNIE, Ian Mckay appointed
    director
  40. 2001-12-13
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    Company incorporated
    As INNOVENT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
  41. 2001-12-13
    ➕
    GLEN, Jeremy Stewart appointed
    nominee-secretary
  42. 2001-12-13
    ➕
    DUNN, Alastair Kenneth appointed
    nominee-director
  43. 2001-12-13
    ➕
    GLEN, Jeremy Stewart appointed
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

93/100
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 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

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 63. 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 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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
William Anderson Mccoll Thomson
Individual · British · DOB 07/1963 · age 63
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control24/02/2025

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

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7 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
Incorporated2001-12-13
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC62020 — Information technology consultancy activities

Registered office

Whitehill Cottage
Deveron Terrace
Turriff
AB53 4NA
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-10
Last: 2025-12-27

Officers (2 active · 10 resigned)

THOMSON, William Anderson Mccoll→
secretary · appointed 2023-04-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
THOMSON, William Anderson Mccoll→
director · ~63y · appointed 2002-05-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ALEXANDER, Gordon James→
secretary · appointed 2002-05-27 · resigned 2023-04-02
Resigned
GLEN, Jeremy Stewart→
nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-12-13 · resigned 2002-05-27
Resigned
ALEXANDER, Gordon James→
director · ~73y · appointed 2002-05-27 · resigned 2023-04-02
Resigned
BAXTER, Graham James→
director · ~77y · appointed 2002-05-27 · resigned 2022-08-31
Resigned
COLEBROOK, Martyn Hugh→
director · ~68y · appointed 2007-01-01 · resigned 2008-07-31
Resigned
DUNN, Alastair Kenneth→
nominee-director · ~60y · appointed 2001-12-13 · resigned 2002-05-27
Resigned
GLEN, Jeremy Stewart→
nominee-director · ~60y · appointed 2001-12-13 · resigned 2002-05-27
Resigned
KENYON, Peter William→
director · ~82y · appointed 2002-05-27 · resigned 2022-08-31
Resigned
MANSON, George Banks→
director · ~79y · appointed 2002-05-27 · resigned 2012-10-24
Resigned
MENNIE, Ian Mckay→
director · ~74y · appointed 2002-05-27 · resigned 2022-09-02
Resigned

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Recent filings (87 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-05-07
withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2025-03-28
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2025-03-10
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2025-03-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-18
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2023-04-03
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2023-04-02
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-04-02
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-04-02
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-03-17