SLA LIMITED

🌿Early-stageactive
SC727748 · ltd · incorporated 2022-03-28
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
Why now
Window steady · medium confidence
Mixed signals — 1 changes over 30 days, no clear direction yet.
  • · Filings: 8 → 10
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 1 positive signal vs 0 negative.

  • Filings: 810
Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Mar 2024
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
52/100
Worth a look
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What this business does
Primary activity: Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Admin-neglect survivor. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 52/100 (worth a look), bankability 40/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: File overdue accounts. Clears statutory overdue flag — immediate bankability uplift for refinance conversations. Most likely exit: family or management succession (50/100). Current lenders should be on monthly review.

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
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
10 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
52/100Worth a look
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Mixed signal. Worth opening the full target workup before deciding to pursue.

Business quality
35
Concerning — overdue filings or status flags present.
Acquirability
55
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
49
Multiple red flags — proceed with caution.
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£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2023Mar 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-03-312023-03-31
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
1
filing
  • 1 dissolution
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • 1 dissolution
  • 1 gazette
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • 1 dissolution
  • 1 gazette
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (10 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-07-09
    📄
    dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspended
    dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
  2. 2026-05-26
    📄
    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  3. 2025-07-16
    📄
    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  4. 2025-06-17
    📄
    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  5. 2024-07-15
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-03-27
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-03-28
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As SLA LIMITED
  8. 2022-03-28
    ROBERTSON, Laura appointed
    director
  9. 2022-03-28
    ROBERTSON, Steven Dallas appointed
    director
  10. 2022-03-28
    📄
    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

66/100
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.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Red flags

2 high ·
Accounts overdue
high

Statutory accounts have not been filed by their due date. Can indicate admin breakdown, cash preservation, or deliberate delay.

Evidence: Next due: 2026-03-31

Confirmation statement overdue
high

Annual confirmation statement not filed on time. Required statutory filing — overdue is a strong discipline signal.

Evidence: Next due: 2026-04-10

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Steven Dallas Robertson
Individual · British · DOB 02/1969 · age 57
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control28/03/2022

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
Incorporated2022-03-28
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Registered office

59 Bonnygate
Cupar
Fife
KY15 4BY
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-03-31OVERDUE
Last made up to: 2024-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-04-10OVERDUE
Last: 2025-03-27

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

ROBERTSON, Laura
director · ~50y · appointed 2022-03-28
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Active
ROBERTSON, Steven Dallas
director · ~57y · appointed 2022-03-28
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Active

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Recent filings (10 total)

dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspended
dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
2026-07-09
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2026-05-26
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2025-07-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-15
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2025-06-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-17
incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC
2022-03-28