get_psc_chain
Resolve PSC ownership chain to find ultimate beneficial owners
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Trace the full ownership chain for a UK company by recursively following corporate entity PSCs. Returns a tree showing who ultimately controls the company - natural persons (UBOs), foreign entities, or legal persons - along with why each branch terminated. Each node has a terminal_reason: natural_person, foreign_entity, legal_person, super_secure, unverified_registry, unknown_kind, depth_limit, not_found, cycle_detected, or psc_exempt. Two of those are easy to misread: unverified_registry means a registration number was filed but cannot be tied to the Companies House register (a foreign registry, or one we do not recognise), which is a finding about the ownership structure and not an error or an outage; unknown_kind means Companies House returned a PSC type we do not classify, with the raw value in kind_raw. ECCTA identity verification: every individual node, at any depth including the ultimate beneficial owners this chain exists to find, carries verification_status (verified, pending, overdue or unknown), identity_verified (true, false for overdue only, or null otherwise), identity_verified_on, and verification_deadline. IMPORTANT: pending means that person's own deadline has not yet passed - it is not a compliance failure and must not be reported as one. A status of unknown means Companies House publishes no record for them, which is an absence of data rather than a breach. Only overdue means a deadline was missed. Corporate, legal-person and super-secure nodes carry none of these fields, so never describe a company itself as having unverified identity. chain_metadata reports how many companies were resolved and the total API credit cost. Use this for KYB (Know Your Business) checks, AML screening, or any task requiring beneficial ownership beyond the immediate PSC layer.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| company_number | string | yes | Companies House company number, e.g. '00445790' for Tesco PLC. Numeric-only numbers should be zero-padded to 8 digits. |
| max_depth | integer | no | Maximum chain depth to traverse (1-10, default 5). Each level costs 1 upstream API call per corporate entity found. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"company_number": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[A-Z0-9]{1,8}$",
"description": "Companies House company number, e.g. '00445790' for Tesco PLC. Numeric-only numbers should be zero-padded to 8 digits."
},
"max_depth": {
"description": "Maximum chain depth to traverse (1-10, default 5). Each level costs 1 upstream API call per corporate entity found.",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 10
}
},
"required": [
"company_number"
]
}