What an Audit Report contains

A single signed PDF, typically 18–24 pages, structured so a partner-level reader can absorb the verdict in two minutes and a junior can defend the workings in two hours. Every report is built against the same template:

1. One-page summary. The verdict, Onboard / Onboard with Conditions / Escalate / Decline, with the three highest-weighted findings called out as bullets. This is the page that goes into the board paper.
2. Headline metrics. Turnover, margin, current ratio, debt-to-equity, staff costs, headcount, all benchmarked against the SIC peer set and the appropriate regional comparable, with the year-on-year shifts surfaced.
3. The 41-check stability taxonomy. Every signal that fired against the entity, scored, with the underlying iXBRL tag and Companies House filing reference attached.
4. AI Benchmark compliance grade. Full A–F grade with the eighteen underlying compliance checks (GDPR, cookie-banner, transparency-standard alignment) and the evidence pack, screenshots, web-archive timestamps, filing references.
5. Virtual Office cluster analysis. Headquarters / Co-working / Mailbox grade for the registered office, with the address-cluster size and margin-gap context.
6. Beneficial-ownership map. PSC filings, ownership chain, geographic concentration, transfer-event history.
7. Director and audit history. Resignation patterns, audit-firm continuity, qualification history, late-filing record.
8. Verdict with conditions. What the report concludes, what conditions to attach to onboarding, what signals to monitor post-contract.

Every figure is traceable to its source. If your legal team or counsel queries any line, we can produce the underlying filing reference and the parsed iXBRL tag end-to-end.

When teams use them

Audit Reports are the on-demand alternative to subscribing to the daily Pulse feed. They’re the right product when:

• The decision is one-off, not a workflow. A single high-value contract, a specific M&A diligence file, a board paper, not the steady-state vendor base.
• The output needs to be a document, not a dashboard. Procurement committees, investment committees and audit committees consume PDFs, not API responses.
• The figures need a signed source. Insurance underwriting, regulator-facing AML files and external counsel reviews all benefit from a counter-signed report rather than a screenshot of a dashboard.
• Volume is moderate. Below ~200 reports / year, the on-demand pricing typically beats the equivalent subscription cost.

Turnaround and SLA

• Standard turnaround: 5 business days from order to signed PDF.
• Expedited turnaround: 48 hours, +50% premium. We hold capacity for one expedited slot per business day.
• Volume: 5+ concurrent reports invoke a dedicated solutions engineer for the duration of the batch.

The standard turnaround is what most teams use; expedited slots are reserved for time-bound transactions where the diligence file has to clear by a specific board date.

Pricing

• Single Audit Report: £1,800 per report.
• Bundle of 10: £14,400 (£1,440 each).
• Annual retainer (50 reports / year): £58,000 (£1,160 each, with rolling allowance and named engineer).
• Expedited (48-hour turnaround): +50% on the relevant tier.

Every report includes a 30-day post-delivery question window where the engineer who wrote the report is available for follow-up clarifications by email, included in the price, not charged separately.

What this is not

• Not a legal opinion. The report does not constitute legal advice. The findings are factual, sourced and decision-grade, but the contractual decision sits with you.
• Not a substitute for a regulated audit. This is a private, decision-grade diligence pack, not a statutory audit under FRC rules.
• Not adversarial. Reports are commissioned by the buyer and delivered privately to the buyer. We do not publish reports, share them between clients, or syndicate findings.