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.

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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.

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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!
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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.

As the leaves crunch underfoot, we're excited to introduce the Autumn Platform Refresh!

Our team has been hard at work bringing a range of updates to the platform to elevate your experience. With these changes, we’re bring more of the platform up to date and introducing features we think you’ll love.

Transactions Rework

We’ve revamped MBOs, IPOs, Spin-outs, Fundraisings, Grants, and Acquisitions!

• New designs make it easier than ever to understand transaction details at a glance.
• Seamlessly switch between transactions with just one click.

Collections Are Even Better Now 

Collections have received a major update as part of our navigation improvements, giving it a cleaner, more user-friendly layout.

• Improved navigation: Enjoy more space to interact with side bar options, descriptions, and purposes—without the clutter.
• Back to Collections: A handy button at the top-left makes it simple to return to your main Collections page.

We’ve also added exciting new features:

🔎 Search for Collections

Quickly locate the exact Collection you need using our new search function in the Collection Index.

⭐️ Favourites

Organising your Collections just got easier:

• Star your most-used Collections to save them in a dedicated Favourites tab.
• Access your favourites anytime from the side bar.

🚮 Auto-Remove

Keep your Collections truly dynamic:

• Automatically remove items that no longer match your AVS criteria.
• Perfect for ensuring a focused view, whether tracking local performance or industry trends.

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You can now automatically update all company records in your CRM overnight, every night.

Manually updating data within your CRM can be a time-consuming task. With the introduction of our new Enrich feature, this process is fully automated and we will update all your company records daily. 

• Up-to-date data daily: Every company record where we have a matching website is enriched overnight with key data including headcount, turnover, industries, signals, head office address and fundraising totals
• Consistency across all records: No more outdated or incomplete data, you'll have reliable data ready for you to use.
• Save time: No more manual data management letting you focus on your most important tasks
• Powerful insights: Use enriched data to automate lead scoring, track client changes and uncover new trends
• Available for HubSpot and Salesforce: Seamlessly integrate our data into your tools

Ready to get started? Contact your account manager to enable the Enrich feature, or visit our user guides to find out more.