The rubric in a partner's head, the scoring model built in Excel one Tuesday, the definition of a good fit that only your team uses — you can now turn any of them into a datapoint that lives in the platform, answered for every company on your list.

This is an early access release: live and usable now, with limits that will lift as we scale it up. Free to use until January 2027, with complimentary credits to spend across up to five datapoints.

Where to find it

Open a True Companies collection, click 'Add', and choose 'Generate new datapoint' · try it on a collection

Ask, check, preview, run

Say what you want to know about each company, and pick the shape of the answer: a category, a score, true/false, a number, or written text.

Beauhurst turns your question into a clearer, structured prompt and shows it back to you. Preview on 10 companies before committing, and refine as often as you like.

When it's right, choose how many companies to run it over and decide whether to keep it private or publish it to your team.

Every answer shows its reasoning and sources

The column lands alongside everything else you already use to size a list up. Click any value to see how it got there.

Open the prompt from the column header any time to see exactly what was asked.

Building the list has never been the hard part. Qualifying it against a datapoint we don't carry is. Now that step happens where the list already lives, consistently across every company, saved and reusable.

Manage all your datapoints in one place

The other Settings pages have had a visual refresh too. They have a cleaner layout and are easier to find your way around. Nothing about how your account, team, or alerts settings work has changed.

Good to know

Custom Data runs on True Companies collections. It reasons over Beauhurst's structured True Company data. A saved prompt can't be edited, so preview first. Free during early access. Learn more here.

If you'd like to shape what comes next, talk to our Product team.

On True Companies?

Build your first datapoint

Not on True Companies yet? Custom Data runs on True Companies collections only. Speak to your account manager about moving your account over.

You can now sync Beauhurst data directly into Dynamics, and your Dynamics data into Beauhurst - so the two platforms stay aligned without manual updates.

If you’ve spent time tracking down missing company data, dealing with outdated records or checking multiple systems - this integration fixes that.

Find what has changed

See which companies you’ve worked with have grown, raised funding or expanded. Beauhurst data in Dynamics fills the gaps of industry classification, latest headcount, funding insight and growth signals.

Track clients and cohorts automatically

Keep your lists synced across both tools so you can spot the key updates automatically - no longer need to manually import your groups of companies to be alerted of new funding, leadership changes and innovation activity.

Find you next opportunities

Use your CRM data to exclude companies you’ve already worked with and identify new ones that match your criteria to find your next opportunities.

Get connected now

Head to the integrations page to get set up here. It only takes a few clicks.

For more information, our user guide is available here.

Don’t use Dynamics? HubSpot and Salesforce integrations are already available if you use those instead.

Built a Lens that surfaces exactly the insight you need? You can now share it with anyone on your Beauhurst subscription so your whole team benefits from the same research framework.

Open the lenses side panel on any company profile, enter your question to create a new Lens or edit an existing one, review the response, then click Share and save. Your colleague gets the same Lens to run across their own companies, no need for everyone to craft the same prompt independently.

Useful when your team is screening companies against shared criteria such as investment readiness, ESG exposure, or risk signals... and you want consistency in how that research gets done.

Try it now

You've been able to run our preset lenses to get fast, structured insight on companies. Now you can build your own.

Custom lenses let you ask any company research question, get an AI-powered answer grounded in our data, and save the questions that matter most — so you can run the same research reliably, across every company you review.

How to use them

Ask a question, get an answer. Type any question about a company directly into the lens panel. Focus your prompts on an outcome, rather than a topic, to get the best reusable outputs.

Save and reuse as lenses. When a question is worth repeating, save it. We’ll name it for you automatically, though you can edit the name any time. Arrange your saved lenses in whatever order suits your workflow.

Work side by side with your data. Lenses now live in a persistent side panel, so you can run and review them without losing your place as you move through a company profile.

What you can do with custom lenses

Custom lenses are most powerful when you have a repeatable research need that our presets don’t cover. A few examples of what you might ask:

• Screening companies: “Does this company operate in financial services and have there been recent signs of growth?” — build a qualification lens that reflects your target companies.
• Due diligence: “Produce a focused SWOT analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats for this company.” — save the DD questions your team asks every time.
• Strategic analysis: “What signs suggest this company might be family owned?” — apply a consistent lens across a category to spot patterns.

Until now, lenses gave you fast answers to our questions. Custom lenses put the research agenda in your hands, making it possible to encode your own questions directly into your workflow.

Every answer is grounded in our data, so you get the consistency of a reliable, structured process with the flexibility of asking open-ended questions.

Try it now

Lenses are powered by AI.

We've just launched Deal Lifecycles, giving you a clearer picture of what's really happening in the UK and German deal spaces.

You can now see whether a deal is:
- Pending
- Completed
- Dormant
- Cancelled

Finding the right funds just got much easier. You can now use Natural Language Search across our Funds dataset to instantly build sophisticated investor searches in plain English.

• “Funds that have invested in London-based pharmaceuticals companies”
• “UK funds that can invest £1m in biotechnology companies”
• “Funds that have participated in at least 2 FinTech funding rounds”

Whether you're researching past participants in funding rounds or scouting for potential funders, Natural Language Search will translate your query into a structured set of filters - helping you start from intent, not from scratch.

What you can do now

• Search for funds in plain English: No need to know specific criteria names.
• Instantly build complex searches: Combining industries, location, investment amount, and more.
• Work simpler and faster: With a powerful and intuitive entry point for discovering funds.

Try it now: Select ‘Funds’ on Advanced Search and enter a natural language query to start exploring.

One searchable database, two countries, unlimited opportunities

We’ve been covering 2.8 million active German businesses for a few months now. With this new update, we’ve expanded our datasets with more transactions, events, and industry classifications. Plus, our new search experience makes finding and verifying your next German opportunity even easier.

What’s New?

Seamless Insights Across UK & Germany

Discover UK and German businesses side by side in our new True Companies search. No need to switch between searches - everything you need is in one place. More updates to this experience are coming soon, so stay tuned 👀

Stay on Top of Key Company Events

Explore over 4,000 German companies with significant events & fundraisings. Helping you to uncover new German opportunities and track industry activity. With this update, we now cover the following events:

We’ve added industry classifications to 1.5 million German companies. That’s over 1 million more since our last update in November. Whether you want to find businesses in manufacturing, or understand growth patterns in insurance - industries make it easier to find the businesses that matter to you.

Refined Location Searches

Drill down beyond cities with new regional search options, helping you discover companies in key business areas. Search for companies within a German state, district, municipality or the specific postal code.

Start exploring now and see what our enhanced German data can do for you!
Open a search

Introducing ✨ News Topics ✨, a new and real-time way of identifying key non-transaction events in a company's timeline.

Using a new ML model, we're reading and extracting key information from news articles and tagging them with our new Topic labels. Our first three Topics are:

• Key people change
• New product or service
• New property

Topics are also searchable in Advanced Search! You can discover and create Collections for new opportunities for when a company has been mentioned in the news for one of the above.

Advanced Search company criteria: Significant events > News coverage > News topics

Discover key moments in a company's journey quicker than ever before, for example, identifying the appointment of a key person before it's officially filed and published on the platform via our traditional data flow under 'Person added'.

Jump into the Timeline tab on Company Pages now and discover key moments mentioned in News articles you may have missed!

Introducing Beauhurst News!

• 1000 news articles on UK companies per day
• Over 1000 companies tagged with events per day
• News articles live on the platform within 6 hours of publication.

Keep up to date with every key moment in a company's timeline and stay on top of the UK's private business economy, with News alerts switched on for your Collection updates.