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# Companies
> Company research in Full Market Intelligence combines available identity, people, ownership and transaction context.
## Overview
Company research in Full Market Intelligence combines available identity, people, ownership and transaction context.
## Field groups
* Identity
* Ownership
* People
* Transactions
## Field reference
SOURCE\_DEPENDENT describes availability; access is a separate product/rights boundary. Null means unknown, not false or zero.
| Field | Type | Availability | Access | Description |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------------- | ----------------- | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Company name (name) | string · 0..1 | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | The name on the company research record. |
| Description (description) | string · 0..1 | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | A description of the company and its activities. |
| Website (website) | string · 0..1 | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | The company website where recorded. |
| Sector (sector) | string · 0..1 | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | Sector classification for company research. |
| Subsector (subsector) | string · 0..1 | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | A more specific business classification where recorded. |
| Location (location) | string · 0..1 | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | Recorded company location. |
| Country (country) | string · 0..1 | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | Recorded company country. |
| Founded year (founded\_year) | integer · 0..1 | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | The recorded year the company was founded. |
| Employee count (employee\_count) | integer · 0..1 | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | Recorded company employee count. |
| Ownership context (ownership\_context) | object\[] · 0..many | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | Recorded ownership and organization relationships, with their specific type, where available on company or linked organization records. |
| Relevant people (people) | object\[] · 0..many | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | Available people linked to the company, with their documented role. |
| Transaction context (transactions) | object\[] · 0..many | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | Recorded deal type, date, investing firm, participant role and disclosed amount/currency where available. |
### Company name
Field ID: `name`. Group: Identity.
The name on the company research record.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** Not a guarantee of registered legal name, alias completeness or identity equivalence.
### Description
Field ID: `description`. Group: Identity.
A description of the company and its activities.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** Source-dependent; distinguish a company statement from independently checked evidence.
### Website
Field ID: `website`. Group: Identity.
The company website where recorded.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** A shared domain does not establish that two organizations are one legal entity.
### Sector
Field ID: `sector`. Group: Identity.
Sector classification for company research.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** Classification may be missing or broader than the buyer's investment thesis.
### Subsector
Field ID: `subsector`. Group: Identity.
A more specific business classification where recorded.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** Not available for every company.
### Location
Field ID: `location`. Group: Identity.
Recorded company location.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** Not necessarily a registered office or complete list of operating locations.
### Country
Field ID: `country`. Group: Identity.
Recorded company country.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** Not proof of incorporation jurisdiction or tax residence.
### Founded year
Field ID: `founded_year`. Group: Identity.
The recorded year the company was founded.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** Not a precise incorporation date.
### Employee count
Field ID: `employee_count`. Group: Identity.
Recorded company employee count.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** May reflect a source estimate or an earlier observation; not a current headcount guarantee.
### Ownership context
Field ID: `ownership_context`. Group: Ownership.
Recorded ownership and organization relationships, with their specific type, where available on company or linked organization records.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** Relationships keep their own type and evidence. Acquisition-parent, related-company or sponsor context does not by itself establish current legal ownership, complete beneficial ownership or control.
### Relevant people
Field ID: `people`. Group: People.
Available people linked to the company, with their documented role.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** Deal participants and investment leads are not automatically company employees. Email and phone depend on separate entitlement and availability.
### Transaction context
Field ID: `transactions`. Group: Transactions.
Recorded deal type, date, investing firm, participant role and disclosed amount/currency where available.
**Evidence / dates:** Use an explicitly recorded source or event date where available. A record update is not verification.
**Limitation:** Not comprehensive valuation comps, financing terms or transaction execution. A missing amount means unknown, not zero.
## Relationships to other entities
A parent, subsidiary, sponsor, investor and person remain distinct entities with recorded roles. A shared domain or similar name is not legal identity proof.
## Research a company
Fictional request brief, entities, sources, values and dates. This is a documentation example, not a live HTTP response or customer result. Missing dates remain null.
**Current availability:** Reviewed bounded request. **Execution:** Manual / scoped. **Automated invocation:** Not currently available. **API endpoint:** None. **MCP execution:** None.
A research brief for human scope review, not an API payload.
```json theme={null}
{
"organization": "Example Automation Ltd",
"objective": "Understand ownership, relevant people and selected transaction context",
"intended_use": "Research preparation"
}
```
```json theme={null}
{
"task_type": "organization-research",
"status": "supported_with_unknowns",
"entity": null,
"subject": {
"entity_type": "company",
"name": "Example Automation Ltd",
"website": "https://example.com/fictional/company",
"research_scope": null
},
"as_of": null,
"result": {
"summary": "Review the fictional company’s identity, ownership, people and selected acquisition context before deciding what to investigate next.",
"company": null,
"criteria": [],
"sections": [
{
"entity_type": "company",
"data": {
"name": "Example Automation Ltd",
"description": "Industrial automation company",
"website": "https://example.com",
"sector": "Industrial automation",
"subsector": null,
"location": null,
"country": "United Kingdom",
"founded_year": null,
"employee_count": null,
"ownership_context": [
{
"name": "Example Industrial Holdings",
"role": "Recorded parent organization",
"date": null,
"amount": null,
"currency": null
}
],
"people": [
{
"name": "Jamie Chen",
"role": "Chief Executive",
"date": null,
"amount": null,
"currency": null
}
],
"transactions": [
{
"name": "Example Controls Ltd",
"role": "Acquisition target",
"date": "2026-09-12",
"amount": null,
"currency": null
}
]
}
}
]
},
"evidence": [
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.name",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.description",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated description entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.website",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated website entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.sector",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated sector entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.country",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated country entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.ownership_context",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated ownership context entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.people",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated people entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.transactions",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated transactions entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
}
],
"unknowns": [
"Ultimate beneficial ownership",
"Current willingness to transact"
],
"limitations": [
"Fictional entities, sources, values and dates; no real customer result or live execution.",
"Source coverage and output use remain subject to the agreed purpose and rights review."
],
"rights": {
"scope": "A task purchases the agreed bounded result, not database access, unrestricted API queries, contacts export or graph redistribution. Sources and unknowns accompany results. Purchaser authorization, scope acceptance, agreement and payment are required before manual fulfillment; no automated external task service is offered.",
"raw_graph_access": false,
"bulk_export": false,
"graph_redistribution": false
}
}
```
Each field path identifies the particular value supported by the source note.
| Field path | Illustrated value | Source type | Basis |
| ----------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| result.sections.0.data.name | "Example Automation Ltd" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.description | "Industrial automation company" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated description entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.website | "[https://example.com](https://example.com)" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated website entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.sector | "Industrial automation" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated sector entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.country | "United Kingdom" | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated country entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.ownership\_context | \[\{"name":"Example Industrial Holdings","role":"Recorded parent organization","date":null,"amount":null,"currency":null}] | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated ownership context entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.people | \[\{"name":"Jamie Chen","role":"Chief Executive","date":null,"amount":null,"currency":null}] | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated people entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
| result.sections.0.data.transactions | \[\{"name":"Example Controls Ltd","role":"Acquisition target","date":"2026-09-12","amount":null,"currency":null}] | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated transactions entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
```json theme={null}
[
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.name",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.description",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated description entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.website",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated website entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.sector",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated sector entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.country",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated country entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.ownership_context",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated ownership context entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.people",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated people entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
},
{
"field": "result.sections.0.data.transactions",
"source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
"source_type": "public_reporting",
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
"captured_at": null,
"observed_at": null,
"verified_at": null,
"basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated transactions entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
}
]
```
## Evidence / dates
Supporting evidence attaches to a specific field. Missing publication, capture, observation and verification dates remain unknown. Subscription views do not expose every source URL or date. [Read evidence and date semantics](/evidence-and-dates).
## What may be unknown
Beneficial ownership, complete contacts, undisclosed financing terms and current willingness to transact may remain unknown.
## Scope
The fields below are source-dependent, authenticated company-research concepts. Public documentation exposes their descriptions only. A bounded task may return a permitted subset after scope and rights review.
A related organization, shared domain or similar name is not proof of legal identity. Parent, subsidiary, sponsor and person roles remain distinct. Complete global legal aliases, beneficial ownership, historical role timelines and uniform field-level verification dates are not promised.
## Registry context
Where a UK registry match is recorded, some company views link a registry profile separately from filed accounts. The registry profile can support a registry evidence reference; filed accounts remain filing evidence. A name/domain match is not unconditional legal-identity proof.
The generic company field schema remains compatible with V1. Conditional registry details are not promoted into a universal legal-name, identifier or ownership guarantee.
## Contact information and financial detail
Contact channels are entitlement-dependent and may be absent; these docs do not publish email/phone fields as part of the public company result schema. Access never grants a bulk contact list.
Source-specific financial detail requires careful currency and reporting-period review. This initial field reference excludes financial-statement and normalized-valuation promises, complete financing terms and fund-performance benchmarks.
## Access & rights
Access scope: FULL\_MARKET. Field descriptions are public; premium records remain permissioned.
A task purchases the agreed bounded result, not database access, unrestricted API queries, contacts export or graph redistribution. Sources and unknowns accompany results. Purchaser authorization, scope acceptance, agreement and payment are required before manual fulfillment; no automated external task service is offered.
## Related tasks
* [Research template](/tasks/company-research)
* [Entity JSON Schema](https://altss.com/schemas/company.json)
* [Access and rights](/access-and-rights)