FAN2CANOPY LTD

🏛️Establishedactive
SC701407 · ltd · incorporated 2021-06-11
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.
Why now
Window steady · high confidence
Thesis has shifted recently — watch for confirmation.
  • · Lifecycle stage: early → established
  • · Investment thesis: growth_story → unclassified
  • · Bankability: 70 → 75
  • · Filings: 12 → 13
Opportunity decay
hardening · 6-months
Hardening — profile is tightening. If you want to act, do it before the window closes further.
  • · 3 recent signals strengthening vs 0 weakening
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 3 positive signals vs 0 negative.

  • Lifecycle stage: earlyestablished
  • ·Investment thesis: growth_storyunclassified
  • Bankability: 7075
  • Filings: 1213
Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Jun 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
72/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other building and industrial cleaning activities
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 72/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
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
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
13 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
72/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
65
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
55
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£2k£3k£5k£7k£9kJun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Total assets£199
Current assets£8.5k
Net assets£199
Average employees200

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • 1 address
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • 1 address
  • 1 accounts
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (11 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-09
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  2. 2026-03-30
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2025-03-28
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-01-15
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-03-07
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-08-11
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2021-08-11
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2021-06-11
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As FAN2CANOPY LTD
  9. 2021-06-11
    LAIRD, John Alexander appointed
    director
  10. 2021-06-11
    MURDOCH, Gareth appointed
    director
  11. 2021-06-11
    📄
    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

63/100
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.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 5 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

36/100
Weak signal

Limited succession signal. Not a near-term off-market candidate.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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 Gareth Murdoch
Individual · British · DOB 10/1977 · age 49
2550%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting11/06/2021
Mr John Alexander Laird
Individual · British · DOB 01/1978 · age 48
2550%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting11/06/2021

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
Incorporated2021-06-11
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC81229 — Other building and industrial cleaning activities

Registered office

31 Findlay Crescent
Rosyth
Dunfermline
KY11 2RE
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-10
Last: 2026-02-24

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

LAIRD, John Alexander
director · ~48y · appointed 2021-06-11
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Active
MURDOCH, Gareth
director · ~49y · appointed 2021-06-11
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Active

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Recent filings (13 total)

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-06-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-16
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-08-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-08-11
incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC
2021-06-11