Resources

Learn to use business data effectively.

Whether you're an analyst, developer, investor or business leader, find the guides, documentation and insights you need to discover, understand and act on data.

Documentation

Developer & product docs.

What is in each dataset, where it came from and what you may do with it. Being written alongside the products.

Learning Hub

Plain explanations of UK data.

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Industry Guides

One guide per sector.

What the registers hold for your industry, and what they leave out. Pairs with the sector views.

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Real Estate

What the UK company register tells you about property businesses, what it does not, and why new incorporations matter more here than in most sectors.

Construction

Construction forms and dissolves companies faster than almost any sector, which makes the register both the best cheap due diligence you can run and the most misleading thing to count.

Retail & Wholesale

You cannot map shops from the company register, and people keep trying. What it is actually good for is finding trade buyers and checking them before you give them credit.

Financial Services

A naive SIC filter on financial services returns mostly holding companies. Get past that and this is the sector where the register's ownership data earns its keep.

IT & Technology

The fastest-forming sector on the register, and the one where the register tells you least about size. Both of those are useful if you know which way round they run.

Legal & Accounting

Accountancy practices are visible in the register in a way no other sector is, because thousands of companies use their address. That is either a feature or a trap depending on what you are counting.

Health & Care

Care is more consolidated than it looks, and the register is the only place the group structure behind individual homes and practices is visible.

Education

Division 85 is not the school sector. It is the private training market, and once you know that the data becomes useful rather than confusing.

Business & Professional Services Soon

Consultants, recruiters and the firms other businesses run on

Hospitality & Food Soon

Restaurants, takeaways, pubs, cafes and hotels

Personal Services & Leisure Soon

Salons, gyms, sports clubs and personal care

Creative, Media & Marketing Soon

Film, TV, music, publishing, advertising and the arts

Transport & Logistics Soon

Hauliers, couriers, taxi firms, warehousing and freight

Engineering & Technical Soon

Architects, engineers, testing labs and research

Developer

Everything to build with DataSteak.

The API is live and documented. Access is arranged per dataset against your account rather than bought from the site, so ask for the one you want and we turn it on. Every dataset is also available as a one-off CSV download. Anything below still marked Soon is genuinely not built yet.

API Reference
Code Examples Soon
SDK Downloads Soon
Postman Collection Soon
Authentication
Webhooks Soon
Rate Limits Changelog
Product Updates

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Sources

Every row has an address.

Every product on DataSteak is built from named public sources. Not scraped, not anonymous, not “various”. Each card below is a publisher we actually build on, the edition in the products today, and the licence it carries.

A source we have collected but not yet built into a product is not listed, because we are not publishing it. The full attribution statements, including anything a publisher requires you to reproduce, are on the attributions page.

Free tools

Free resources to get started.

The SIC lookup and the 15 row samples are live and need no account. The rest are on the way.

Sample datasets
15 free rows on every product
Excel templates Soon
Formatted workbooks
Power BI templates Soon
Import-ready .pbit
SQL queries Soon
Ready-to-run snippets
API examples Soon
Copy-paste requests
SIC code lookup
All 731 codes, searchable by activity
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