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Remi checks the register before it answers

Remi looks things up in 26 public sources as it works, from Companies House and UK legislation to VAT checks, postcodes and official statistics. Every answer names the source it used, so anyone can open it and check.

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New client checks

Is Bramblewick Joinery Ltd still trading, and who runs it?

Yes. Bramblewick Joinery Ltd is active and was incorporated in March 2014.1

It has two directors, Ana Duarte and Rob Hale. Ana Duarte is also a director of one other company.1

Its last accounts were filed on 12 June, and the next are due by 31 March.1

1 source
1Companies HouseCompany profile, officers and filing historyLooked up just now

  • Nobody copies from the register

    Figures go straight from the source into the answer, the table or the letter, so nothing is retyped and nothing goes stale in a spreadsheet.

  • Every answer shows its working

    Each fact carries the source it came from. Open it and you see the entry the answer was built from.

  • Checked when you ask

    Remi looks the record up at the moment you ask, so a director who resigned last week has already gone from the answer.

The list

26 sources, and what to ask them

Filter by what you need or where you work. Every source has its own link, so you can send someone straight to the one they need.

Companies and charities

Check who you're dealing with before you take on the work or pay the invoice.

  • Companies House

    UK

    The UK company register: who the directors are, who controls a company, what it has filed and whether it's still trading.

    Try asking

    Who are the directors of this new client, and what other companies do they run?

  • Charity Commission

    UK

    The register of charities in England and Wales: trustees, five years of income and spending, and whether the accounts arrived on time.

    Try asking

    Has this charity filed its accounts on time, and how has its income changed over five years?

  • VIES

    EU

    The European Commission's VAT check, which confirms an EU VAT number is real and who it's registered to.

    Try asking

    Is this supplier's VAT number valid, and does the name match the invoice?

  • GLEIF

    Worldwide

    The global register of Legal Entity Identifiers, which shows who owns a company and who sits above it in its group.

    Try asking

    Who is the ultimate parent of this company, and how many companies sit under it?

  • INSEE Sirene

    EU

    France's business register, with every French company, every one of its sites, and whether it's still trading.

    Try asking

    Is this French customer still trading, and how many sites does it have?

Law

The statute book itself, as it stands today or as it stood on a given date.

  • legislation.gov.uk

    UK

    The official text of UK law, Acts and Statutory Instruments included, as it stands today or as it stood on a given date.

    Try asking

    What does the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act let us charge on an overdue invoice?

Exchange rates

The official rate for any working day, for invoices and reports.

  • ECB

    EUWorldwide

    The European Central Bank's daily reference rates, for today or any working day in the past.

    Try asking

    What was the euro to pound rate on the day we sent this invoice?

Statistics and open data

Official figures for a report or a bid, with the source beside them.

  • Eurostat

    EUUK

    Official EU figures on prices, jobs, population, trade and energy, comparable across every member state and going back decades.

    Try asking

    How has inflation in Spain compared with Germany over the last five years?

  • OECD

    Worldwide

    OECD figures on growth, inflation, jobs, trade and education across its member countries, some going back to the 1960s.

    Try asking

    How has UK unemployment compared with the OECD average since 2015?

  • data.gov.uk

    UK

    The UK government's data catalogue, including ONS releases on population, health and spending, with links to the published figures.

    Try asking

    Which councils publish their spending data, and where can I download it?

  • data.europa.eu

    EU

    Close to two million datasets from every EU country's own portals in one index, for questions that cross borders.

    Try asking

    Which EU countries publish data on electric vehicle charging points?

  • data.gouv.fr

    EU

    France's government data platform, with over 74,000 datasets from ministries, agencies and local councils.

    Try asking

    What does the French government publish about housing in Lyon?

  • datos.gob.es

    EU

    Spain's national open data catalogue, from ministries down to town halls, covering jobs, budgets, health and housing.

    Try asking

    What does Spain publish about tourism in the Balearic Islands?

  • Barcelona Open Data

    EU

    Barcelona's city data on air quality, noise, traffic, housing and neighbourhoods, including live feeds.

    Try asking

    How does air quality in Eixample compare with Gràcia this month?

  • Valencia Open Data

    EU

    Valencia's city data on air quality, traffic, public transport, neighbourhoods and city services.

    Try asking

    Which neighbourhoods in Valencia have the most traffic in the morning?

Places and addresses

Postcodes, catchments, and what's nearby.

  • postcodes.io

    UK

    UK postcodes turned into regions, councils, wards and constituencies, hundreds at a time.

    Try asking

    Here are forty customer postcodes. Which council and region is each one in?

  • Nominatim

    Worldwide

    OpenStreetMap's address finder, which turns an address into a point on the map and back again, anywhere in the world.

    Try asking

    Where exactly is this address, and which district is it in?

  • OpenStreetMap

    Worldwide

    Everything mapped in OpenStreetMap near a place: shops, cafés, clinics, schools, parking and charging points.

    Try asking

    How many dental practices are there within two miles of this postcode?

  • Foursquare Places

    Worldwide

    Places worldwide with what people think of them: ratings, prices, opening hours and how busy they get.

    Try asking

    Find a well-reviewed, mid-price restaurant near the office that's open after nine.

  • Geoapify

    Worldwide

    Routes and catchments: how long it takes to get somewhere by car, bike or public transport, and who can reach you in twenty minutes.

    Try asking

    Which of these three sites can most of our customers reach within twenty minutes' drive?

Travel

Journeys across London and flights in the air, live.

  • Transport for London

    UK

    Transport for London, live: journeys, arrivals, disruptions and step-free routes, with lift outages.

    Try asking

    Plan a step-free route from King's Cross to the client's office, and check the lifts are working.

  • OpenSky Network

    Worldwide

    Live aircraft positions worldwide, and the route a given aircraft has just flown.

    Try asking

    Where is our visitors' flight right now, and when did it take off?

Weather

What the weather will do, and what it did.

  • Open-Meteo

    Worldwide

    Forecasts for anywhere in the world, up to sixteen days ahead: rain, wind, temperature, air quality and flood risk.

    Try asking

    Will the weather hold for Thursday's site visit, and how sure is the forecast?

  • Open-Meteo ERA5

    Worldwide

    Recorded weather back to 1940, for checking what the weather really did on a given day.

    Try asking

    How much rain fell at the site on the day the delivery was turned away?

Video

What a video says, and how it's doing.

  • YouTube

    Worldwide

    YouTube's own figures for a video or a channel: views, likes, comments and what it has published.

    Try asking

    What did this channel publish this quarter, and which video got the most comments?

  • TranscriptAPI

    Worldwide

    What was said in a YouTube video, as text with timestamps.

    Try asking

    Summarise what this webinar said about the new rules, with timestamps.

In a chat

Ask the way you'd ask a colleague

  1. 1You ask in your own wordsThere's no source to pick and nothing to set up. Ask about the client, the address or the figure, and Remi works out where to look.
  2. 2Remi looks it upIt reads the register, the statute or the dataset at that moment, and can join several together, such as a list of postcodes and the councils they sit in.
  3. 3The answer cites itEach fact links to its source. The same figures can fill a table in Data Studio or go into a letter in the Writing Studio.
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Questions people ask

How current is the data?
As current as the source. Remi looks the record up when you ask, rather than relying on what a model learnt in training. Exchange rates are the European Central Bank's daily rate, published once each working day.
How do I check an answer?
Every fact Remi takes from a source carries a citation. Open it to see which source was used and what it returned.
What does the source see?
Only what the lookup needs, such as a company name, a postcode or a VAT number. Your documents and chats stay in your workspace, which lives in the EU.
Can it fill a table?
Yes. Ask Remi to check every company on a list for its status and directors, and Data Studio keeps the results as rows you can sort, filter and share.

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Start free, ask Remi who you're dealing with, and open the source it cites.

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