BUYMATERIALS LTD
🌿Early-stageactive
SC757358 · ltd · incorporated 2023-02-01
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Feb 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
71/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: Business and domestic software development
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.
Opportunity 71/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 0.2y
50/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Newest facility, 0.2 years old — likely still in initial term.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
32 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
71/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
50
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
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 | 2025-02-28 | 2024-02-28 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 1100 | 600 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
2 signals 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
1
filing
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 90 days
5
filings
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 resolution
- • 1 capital
Last 180 days
6
filings
- • 2 capital
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 resolution
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
- 2026-04-16📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2026-03-09📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2026-03-06📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2026-03-06📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2026-03-04🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Serg Bell
- 2025-12-24📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2025-08-28📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2025-08-28📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2025-08-21📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2025-05-21📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2025-05-06📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2025-04-30📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2025-04-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2025-04-15📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2025-04-15📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2024-10-29📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2024-09-25📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2024-06-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2024-03-14📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2024-03-13📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2023-12-04📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-09-29📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2023-06-23📄second-filing-capital-allotment-sharescapital · RP04SH01
- 2023-06-09➕MILIC, Milovan appointeddirector
- 2023-02-01🏢Company incorporatedAs BUYMATERIALS LTD
- 2023-02-01➕MBM SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2023-02-01➕LOVELL, Robert appointeddirector
Owner dependency
58/100
Moderate — manageable with handoverSome founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.
FACTORS
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
Succession & seller-readiness
36/100
Weak signalLimited 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
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Robert Lovell Individual · British · DOB 03/1979 · age 47 | 50–75% | 50–75% | 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting | 01/02/2023 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 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.
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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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2023-02-01
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC62012 — Business and domestic software development
Registered office
Suite 2, Ground Floor Orchard Brae House
30 Queensferry Road
Edinburgh
EH4 2HS
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last made up to: 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-14
Last: 2026-01-31
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
MBM SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED→
Activecorporate-secretary · appointed 2023-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
LOVELL, Robert→
Activedirector · ~47y · appointed 2023-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
MILIC, Milovan→
Activedirector · ~40y · appointed 2023-06-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.
Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Serg Bell | A registered charge | — | 04/03/2026 | — |
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Recent filings (32 total)
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-04-16
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2026-03-09
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2026-03-06
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2026-03-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-10
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2025-12-24
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2025-08-28
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-08-28
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2025-08-21
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2025-05-21
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-05-06
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2025-04-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-04-18
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2025-04-15
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2025-04-15