The problem
Company formation is sold on a headline price that is rarely the price. The statutory fee is folded in or left for the checkout, the fact that your home address will sit on the public register permanently is mentioned after the point where it could have been avoided, and bank accounts are "guaranteed" by people who have no power to guarantee one. Name checks often run against a provider's own cached list rather than the register itself. The mistakes that matter here are the permanent ones — an address that cannot be taken back off the record, a structure that does not fit, a name that conflicts — and they are discovered after filing, not before. And almost nobody in the market says the obvious thing: anyone can register directly with Companies House for the statutory fee alone, and for a lot of people that is the right answer.
The approach
Treat the fee schedule the way an accountant would: two numbers, because the money goes to two places. Our fee is shown on its own, from £1.99, and the £100 Companies House fee is passed on at cost beside it. The packages are organised by circumstance rather than as an upsell ladder — a UK resident using their own address, someone keeping a home address off the register, a company trading from day one, and directors who live outside the UK. The name checker applies the statutory rules first and then reads the Companies House register itself, and it is free to anyone whether or not they buy. Identity is verified before an address is activated rather than after payment, the incorporation is filed as an authorised provider, and the response is reported in Companies House's own words. A dedicated page compares using the service against going direct, including the cases where going direct is plainly better. Banking introductions are described as what they are: no account can be guaranteed, commercial relationships are disclosed, and providers that will not accept a mail-handling address are named before anyone wastes an application on them. After day one the same account keeps the company filed — confirmation statements, appointments, share changes and dormant accounts.
Who built it
Register a Company in the UK was founded and built by Abdul Rehman Sandhu, a qualified accountant and technology advisor working with businesses globally. The same diagnostic approach behind this venture is the one applied in client engagements.