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New Data
2 years ago

Gender Pay Gap Data Now Available

Today we released the Government Equalities Office gender pay gap data on all qualifying UK companies. This data is available to all Beauhurst subscribers

Discover companies that need your help

Use difference in hourly pay in advanced search either to discover companies that might need your support in closing the gap or shining examples of companies that drive equal pay across their workforce


Don't forget: You can use our recent criteria search improvements to help find it!

Deep dive into the pay distribution of a single company

Using the “People” tab on a company page you can go beyond average hourly pay and understand the difference in bonuses and gender distribution across pay quartiles too. This can help unpick some of the reasons why there may be a difference in average pay.

Every company in the UK with more than 250 full time employees has to report each year, and smaller companies can chose to report too. This means our All Company Data subscribers have gender pay gap data on over 11,000 companies!

Start searching

Avatar of authorElliot Britton
New FeatureImprovement
2 years ago

New Criteria Search Bar 🔍

Introducing the new criteria search bar, type the name of what you’re looking for and jump straight to the relevant data point.

If you have used advanced search you will know we have a lot of criteria to choose from to zero in on the companies, people, fundraisings etc you are most interested in. (and we keep adding more!)

We know building that perfect query can be a daunting task, so we are working on making it as easy as possible to discover new criteria and reuse your old favourites.

We are starting by making our list of available criteria searchable. Just start typing after clicking add criteria and you will see all matching entries. The search works both on the criteria themselves and any category they may be present in e.g. "Financial statement".  

Click the down arrow next to a category to see all available criteria even if they don't match your search term.

Try Criteria Search


Avatar of authorMichael Hurley
New FeatureImprovement
3 years ago

🎬 Curate your Collections from Review mode with actions 🎬

Review Mode has just had a glow up ✨. You can now keep track of what you’ve done, seen and thought by adding tags and removing companies from your collection  🔍.

  • Why not create a “Reviewed” tag so that you can filter your collections more easily and never lose your place.
  • Does a company not fit what you’re looking for in a collection? Remove it by simply clicking on the “Remove” action 🗑.

Have you used the arrow keys to move through Review Mode yet? 

Our product team would love to know what you think of Review Mode.

Book a chat with them here: Product Chat

Avatar of authorHenry Gale
New Feature
3 years ago

Move through your Collections with ease in Review Mode 🕵️‍♀️

Do you often find yourself going back and forwards from a collection just to get to the next company?  Fret no more—with our new Review Mode 🕵️‍♀️, you can move between collection items with a single click. Simply choose the company you want to start on and use the arrow buttons to navigate with speed 🏃🏽‍♀️.

Break down which companies you want to view in Review Mode by filtering your collections. Why not try filtering down to the last week for a Monday morning rundown.

Try out Review Mode on one of your collections now 🎉

Try Out Review Mode

Avatar of authorHenry Gale
New Data
3 years ago

Search across 300k+ company descriptions

We’ve just launched a new experimental dataset, allowing our All Company Data subscribers to search across more than 300,000 company descriptions (8x our current number of tracked businesses).

  • Effortlessly discover relevant companies that match your keyword searches
  • Understand prospective clients and partners in their own words, before deciding if they are worth pursuing 
  • Go beyond the existing Beauhurst-tracked companies to find UK businesses of all sizes, stages and sectors

How it works

We gather each description from the company’s website, allowing businesses to express themselves in their own words. These descriptions are then filtered with an algorithm, to ensure only the most descriptive and helpful ones make it onto the platform.

How you can use it

If we hold a description from a website, you’ll find it on the “Basic Details” tab of a company page.

This gives you a richer understanding of the businesses you are interested in. For example, before today, we would have known Chillchain Ltd is in the road freight business (thanks to its SIC code), its financials, and where it is based. But, until now, we didn’t know about its European coverage, its logistics platform, or its refrigerated offerings.

By combining keyword search with the other data we hold on these 300k companies, you can also zero in on the businesses that are most interesting to you, such as finding other refrigerated road freight businesses.

Currently, you can search these descriptions using the standalone “Description from company website” criteria in Advanced Search.

Experimental data

Our samples suggest high accuracy and reliability, whilst still providing significant scale at over 300k descriptions, but we are releasing this data under a new experimental flag. You will start to see this experimental icon around the platform, as we work to get new datasets in your hands faster.

With this new approach to data collection and processing, we want to ensure we have the right balance between scale and quality, so we look forward to hearing your thoughts. Your feedback means we can iterate and improve our data more rapidly too. Win win!

Who can use it

This data is available to all subscribers of our All Company Data add-on. If you don’t have access to this just yet, get in touch with your Account Manager today!

Avatar of authorElliot Britton
Improvement
3 years ago

Improved Quick Searching

We’ve made the Beauhurst Quick Search bar at the top of every page more powerful to help you find what you need.

‘Fuzzy search’ will return results for text that match a term closely instead of exactly. Fuzzy searches help you find relevant results even when the search terms are missing the right characters. For example, if you misspelled ‘Beauhurst ‘as ‘Both hurst’ your results will be:

This means if you only loosely know the name of the company, fund, or person, we can do a better job at returning what you’re looking for.

In addition, if you miss or add Limited, LTD, PLC, hyphens or spaces to your search, we’ll still have a good idea of what you’re searching for based on the other characters in the search.

Happy searching! 🔍

Avatar of authorMichael Hurley
New FeatureImprovement
3 years ago

See If Your Team Is Interested in a Company With the Collection Panel

With our latest feature addition, we’ve made it easier for you to see if your colleagues are interested in a company 🔮. Your collections and those shared by your colleagues are now visible in a company summary. You can use this panel to understand how your team views a company via their tags 🏷, as well as adding, removing or changing your own tags right from the company page.

Now that you can see if a company is in a shared collection and adjust your tags from the company page. Why not

  • Tag a company as interesting or contacted, so your colleagues can avoid repeating your work
  • Share a collection of key prospects, so your team know which companies to focus on
  • Add a “seen” tag on the company page so you know which collection items you’ve reviewed

From here you can view your colleagues' tags, or add/adjust your own tags for that company.


If your team have included a company in a variety of shared collections, you can expand the view to see them all.


Avatar of authorHenry Gale
New Feature
3 years ago

Similar Companies and Intelligent Description Search

You may have seen our similar companies algorithm on a tracked company page. It uses machine learning to analyse the meaning of a company description and find other tracked companies with similar descriptions, even if they aren’t described with the same words.

Following client feedback, we have released two new features for Advanced Search today that build on our existing similar companies feature to help you find relevant companies even if they don’t fall neatly into existing criteria. 

Discover similar companies in Advanced Search

Now you can include similar companies as a criteria in advanced search and combine it with any other data. 

  • Find client competitors so that you can keep track of them. 
  • Find similar companies to your clients and prospect towards them, building a sector niche for your business.
  • Find funds investing in similar companies to your clients so that you can find sources of funding and benchmark deals.

In Advanced Search for companies, you can find it in “Further Details > Description is similar to”


By default, you can enter a company name and we will find companies like that one.


Explore niche or emerging sectors

If you don’t have a specific company in mind, you can switch to “a description like…” to type in a description of your own. This is great for finding niche groups of companies that don’t fit into the existing sector or buzzword categorisations. Below we are able to quickly find “fire safety equipment” companies that are scaling up rapidly without needing to build a complex combination of sectors and exact keyword matches.

NB: This type of search uses the context of the words in the search term so works best using sentences rather than a list of unassociated keywords. 

 




Avatar of authorElliot Britton
New Data
3 years ago

Discover companies that are actively hiring

To properly ring in the new year we’ve launched a new data point to help you keep track of companies that are actively hiring. 

  • Find clients that are likely to be in the market for recruitment services and technology
  • Approach existing and potential clients with more knowledge of their business 
  • Use it as an indicator for the general health of a company


Understand

You can find the actively hiring status on the “Basic Details” tab of a company page, in the Status box.


Discover

It’s also available in Advanced Search and can be combined with other search attributes to help you find companies most relevant to you.

Export

This data is also available in CSV exports, whether you want to further analyse the data or combine it with other sources. You can find it under the “Activity” category when you export a CSV from the company, collection and advanced search pages.

Find out more about how we generate this data in our FAQs.

Avatar of authorElliot Britton
3 years ago

Uploading Contacts Is Now Faster and Easier

If you’ve got access to the Beauhurst Networks add-on, you can already add people you know to “My Network” and use those connections to your advantage around the platform.

Today we’ve made uploading contacts and managing connections easier.

Uploading contacts is faster and clearer

The matching process is much faster. Even if you upload thousands of contacts, it’ll take a fraction of the time.

On the match result screen, the “not matched” category has been split into two. Now you’ll see who returned no matches, and who returned too many matches (for example where a person has a common name and no other information).

You can also download these results so you know which contacts you need to provide more information for.

Quickly know who to add to your Network

Contacts we’ve matched on the platform go into your Suggested Connections list. We’ve made this list easier to manage.

First, the table shows you the “match confidence” for each suggestion, based on the amount of unique identifying information provided. If it’s high, that means the suggestion is almost certainly the right person. If it’s medium, there’s a good chance. If it’s low, you should make sure before you add them. 

The table also shows you how many 2nd degree connections you’ll gain if you add a suggested connection to your Network, allowing you to focus on the connections with the biggest benefits to you.

Easily add and manage suggested connections

You can now save time by adding, hiding, or removing many suggested connections at once.



Finally, you can now filter, sort, and search the table of suggested connections, so you can focus on the best people to add to your Network.


Add your contacts

Avatar of authorElliot Britton