NewcoSignal vs Endole

Endole is a company data platform that covers a wide range of information on UK businesses - filed accounts, credit scores, director history, shareholder data, and county court judgments. It is a reasonable starting point for researching an established company you have heard of, or for building lists of existing businesses that meet certain financial criteria. Its breadth makes it a general-purpose research tool for anyone who regularly needs to look into UK companies, at a published price of £39 per month, or £25 per month billed annually, exclusive of VAT (October 2026).

NewcoSignal is a narrower tool with a specific purpose: finding new companies the moment they register at Companies House and turning those registrations into a filtered, actionable lead list. We do not cover financials or filed accounts, because newly incorporated companies do not have any. What we do is categorise every new registration by industry, flag likely shell companies, and let you set up saved searches that deliver a weekly or daily digest of new companies matching your criteria.

The distinction matters because the value of a lead changes depending on when you reach them. An established company researched on Endole already has an accountant, a bank, a solicitor, and a stack of software subscriptions. Convincing them to switch is an uphill task. A company incorporated last Tuesday is still choosing all of those things. They have not yet signed a lease, picked a payroll provider, or decided who handles their VAT returns. That is the window NewcoSignal is built to catch.

Endole does include daily new incorporations, with filters by industry and by county or postcode, so it is fair to say it can find new companies too. It is one feature in a broad bundle, alongside credit reports, contacts and monitoring. NewcoSignal is built around that one job: a saved search by industry category and region that emails you only the new matches, daily or weekly, with a free plan, formation-agent filtering and a reachable-by-post filter. Instant alerts are hourly delivery of daily data, not real time.

Shell company filtering is another area where the two differ. A substantial portion of new Companies House registrations are holding companies, special purpose vehicles, or dormant entities that were never intended to trade. Including them in a prospecting list wastes time. NewcoSignal applies detection logic to flag likely shells - based on registered address patterns, SIC codes associated with non-trading entities, and officer appointment profiles - so you can exclude them before exporting.

If your primary need is researching established businesses - checking a supplier's credit score, reviewing a director's appointment history across multiple companies, or pulling filed accounts - Endole covers that well. If your need is finding businesses at the start of their journey, before they have committed to any suppliers, NewcoSignal gives you that first-mover position. The two tools answer different questions, and which one is right depends on where in the sales process you need the data.

NewcoSignal has a free tier with no time limit. You can run a search for new companies in your target industry and region today, review the results, and decide whether the lead volume justifies a paid plan. There is no contract required and no sales call needed to get started.