OPTIMISE WEB LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC291826 · ltd · incorporated 2005-10-18
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
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book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Information technology consultancy activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
67 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
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 accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
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| Average employees | 0 | 0 |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2025-09-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2024-09-04📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-09-04📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC02
- 2024-09-03📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2024-09-03📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2024-09-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-09-03📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-09-03📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2024-09-03📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2024-09-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-09-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-09-03📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2023-12-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2019-11-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2009-02-09➖LOCKWOOD, Adam Angus resigneddirector
- 2008-01-14➕KINNEAR, Lisa Elaine appointedsecretary
- 2008-01-14➖LINDSAYS WS resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2005-10-18🏢Company incorporatedAs OPTIMISE WEB LIMITED
- 2005-10-18➕COATES, Andrew Michael appointeddirector
- 2005-10-18➕KINNEAR, Gordon Fraser appointeddirector
- 2005-10-18➕LINDSAYS WS appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2005-10-18➕LOCKWOOD, Adam Angus appointeddirector
Owner dependency
76/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
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 63 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
86/100
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 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Group structure
Optimise Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.
🏛️ultimate parent
Optimise Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
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OPTIMISE WEB LIMITED
This company · SC291826
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%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Optimise Holdings Limited Corporate entity | 75–100% | 75–100% | 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting | 03/09/2024 |
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Mr Gordon Fraser Kinnearceased 03/09/2024· 25-50% voting
- Mr Andrew Michael Coatesceased 03/09/2024· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · firm interest
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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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2005-10-18
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC62020 — Information technology consultancy activities
Registered office
12 Alva Street
Edinburgh
EH2 4QG
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-01
Last: 2025-10-18
Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)
KINNEAR, Lisa Elaine→
Activesecretary · appointed 2008-01-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
COATES, Andrew Michael→
Activedirector · ~56y · appointed 2005-10-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
KINNEAR, Gordon Fraser→
Activedirector · ~63y · appointed 2005-10-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
LINDSAYS WS→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2005-10-18 · resigned 2008-01-14
LOCKWOOD, Adam Angus→
Resigneddirector · ~60y · appointed 2005-10-18 · resigned 2009-02-09
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Recent filings (67 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-09-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-12-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-21
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-09-04
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-09-04
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-09-03
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-09-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-09-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-09-03
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-09-03
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-09-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-09-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-09-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-09-03