Procurement / supply-chain · supplier risk
Supplier monitoring via Companies House
The problem
A supplier filing a winding-up petition is a contract-renegotiation event. Procurement teams want to know the same day, not when the goods don't arrive a month later. Manual monthly reviews of the supplier ledger miss the in-month signal; commercial business-information services charge enterprise rates.
How Stratum fits
The CH-watch endpoint returns the company's status, charges register, recent insolvency events + Gazette mentions, and officer history in one call. Add a supplier to the daily-cron watchlist + the system alerts your inbox on any material filing (insolvency, removed director, charge added, registered-office change). Per-supplier cost is fractions of a penny at 100+ suppliers; well under the daily-cost ceiling for typical supply-chain telemetry.
One request
# Request
curl https://api.stratumapis.com/v1/ch/companies/00445790 -H "x-stratum-key: $KEY"
# Response
{ "companyNumber": "00445790", "companyName": "Acme Supplier Ltd", "companyStatus": "active", "charges": [...], "insolvencyEvents": [], "officers": {...} }Set $KEY from your dashboard.
Frequently asked
How fast do you alert on insolvency?
Daily cron diffs against the prior-day snapshot. Gazette publishes daily; the alert lands in your inbox the morning after the filing.
Does this include the Gazette?
Insolvency events bubble up via the CH `events[]` field + a daily Gazette cross-check. Compulsory winding-up petitions are the strongest signal; voluntary arrangements + administrations also fire alerts.
What about non-UK suppliers?
Companies House only covers UK firms. For non-UK supplier monitoring, pair sanctions-screening (the suite catches sanctioned parents in any jurisdiction) with whatever native-jurisdiction registry the supplier sits in.