Companies House

Aggregate free public company filings into a searchable product

Sam notes the UK's Companies House makes private-company financials freely available; Shaan's friend built a profitable company (Doodill) just by aggregating, presenting, and making that data searchable. The takeaway: wrap a clean, searchable layer on top of clunky public datasets.

“He's like, oh, it's just like, you have to make it available here. So what we do is we just aggregate it, present it, make it searchable.”

Steal thisTake a free-but-clunky government dataset and wrap it in a clean, searchable interface as a paid product.