Audit Reports

What an Audit Report contains

A single signed PDF, typically 18–24 pages, structured so a partner-level reader can absorb the verdict in two minutes and a junior can defend the workings in two hours. Every report is built against the same template:

1. One-page summary. The verdict, Onboard / Onboard with Conditions / Escalate / Decline, with the three highest-weighted findings called out as bullets. This is the page that goes into the board paper.
2. Headline metrics. Turnover, margin, current ratio, debt-to-equity, staff costs, headcount, all benchmarked against the SIC peer set and the appropriate regional comparable, with the year-on-year shifts surfaced.
3. The 41-check stability taxonomy. Every signal that fired against the entity, scored, with the underlying iXBRL tag and Companies House filing reference attached.
4. Legal & Compliance grade. Full A–F grade with the eighteen underlying compliance checks (GDPR, cookie-banner, transparency-standard alignment) and the evidence pack, screenshots, web-archive timestamps, filing references.
5. Virtual Office cluster analysis. Headquarters / Co-working / Mailbox grade for the registered office, with the address-cluster size and margin-gap context.
6. Beneficial-ownership map. PSC filings, ownership chain, geographic concentration, transfer-event history.
7. Director and audit history. Resignation patterns, audit-firm continuity, qualification history, late-filing record.
8. Verdict with conditions. What the report concludes, what conditions to attach to onboarding, what signals to monitor post-contract.

Every figure is traceable to its source. If your legal team or counsel queries any line, we can produce the underlying filing reference and the parsed iXBRL tag end-to-end.

When teams use them

Audit Reports are the on-demand alternative to subscribing to the daily Pulse feed. They’re the right product when:

• The decision is one-off, not a workflow. A single high-value contract, a specific M&A diligence file, a board paper, not the steady-state vendor base.
• The output needs to be a document, not a dashboard. Procurement committees, investment committees and audit committees consume PDFs, not API responses.
• The figures need a signed source. Insurance underwriting, regulator-facing AML files and external counsel reviews all benefit from a counter-signed report rather than a screenshot of a dashboard.
• Volume is moderate. Below ~200 reports / year, the on-demand pricing typically beats the equivalent subscription cost.

Turnaround and SLA

• Standard turnaround: 5 business days from order to signed PDF.
• Expedited turnaround: 48 hours, +50% premium. We hold capacity for one expedited slot per business day.
• Volume: 5+ concurrent reports invoke a dedicated solutions engineer for the duration of the batch.

The standard turnaround is what most teams use; expedited slots are reserved for time-bound transactions where the diligence file has to clear by a specific board date.

Pricing

• Single Audit Report: £1,800 per report.
• Bundle of 10: £14,400 (£1,440 each).
• Annual retainer (50 reports / year): £58,000 (£1,160 each, with rolling allowance and named engineer).
• Expedited (48-hour turnaround): +50% on the relevant tier.

Every report includes a 30-day post-delivery question window where the engineer who wrote the report is available for follow-up clarifications by email, included in the price, not charged separately.

What this is not

• Not a legal opinion. The report does not constitute legal advice. The findings are factual, sourced and decision-grade, but the contractual decision sits with you.
• Not a substitute for a regulated audit. This is a private, decision-grade diligence pack, not a statutory audit under FRC rules.
• Not adversarial. Reports are commissioned by the buyer and delivered privately to the buyer. We do not publish reports, share them between clients, or syndicate findings.