SEADYN LTD

🌳Matureactive
SC534445 · ltd · incorporated 2016-05-04
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Why now
Window closing · high confidence
Getting harder to buy — profile has hardened into "well run hard buy" recently.
  • · Lifecycle stage: established → mature
  • · Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • · Filings: 24 → 25
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 2 positive signals vs 0 negative.

  • ↑Lifecycle stage: established → mature
  • ·Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • ↑Filings: 24 → 25
Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to May 2025
Net worth
£70.8k
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 71129Other engineering activities
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 66). 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, 2 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
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
25 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
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 £70,835

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£71k
~ YoY
Current Assets
£94k
↓ 3.5% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£19k£39k£58k£78k£97kMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Total assets£70.8k£70.2k
Current assets£93.9k£97.3k
Net assets£70.8k£70.2k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 address
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  2. 2026-02-24
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  3. 2026-02-09
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  4. 2025-10-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2025-01-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-01-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-12-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-03-31
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2022-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-02-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-02-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-02-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-09-05
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2016-05-04
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As SEADYN LTD
  16. 2016-05-04
    ➕
    BURGER, George appointed
    director
  17. 2016-05-04
    ➕
    MAIR, Alexander Gardiner appointed
    director
  18. 2016-05-04
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    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

78/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material 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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 10 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

61/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr George Burger
Individual · British · DOB 02/1960 · age 66
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting04/05/2016
Mr Alexander Gardiner Mair
Individual · British · DOB 04/1961 · age 65
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting04/05/2016

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
Incorporated2016-05-04
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC71122 — Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities

Registered office

Clashendrum House
Kinneff
Montrose
DD10 0TA
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-17
Last: 2026-05-03

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

BURGER, George→
director · ~66y · appointed 2016-05-04
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Active
MAIR, Alexander Gardiner→
director · ~65y · appointed 2016-05-04
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Recent filings (25 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-07
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-09
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-02-24
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-02-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-10-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-01-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-01-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-12-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-06
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-03-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-01-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-04