Public record
Business search. Everything a business has published, in one read.
Give us a name, a website or a GST number. We gather what that business has put into the public record, lay it out in one place, and say plainly wherever we could not read something.
Public sources only — a business’s own website, its listings, and registers it is required to appear in. Nothing private, nothing bought.
Reading
Reading this business
Which one
Several businesses may carry this name. Which do you mean?
A reading built from two different companies is worse than none, so we ask first. These are search suggestions — nothing below is read until you choose.
Your reading
Two ways from here
You have the reading. We have the afternoon.
Everything above is free and yours — every line names its source, so you can open each one yourself. The right-hand option exists for when the business on this page is your own and you would rather we put it in order.
Open any source from the line it came from. Search again whenever a section says could not read.
Search another businessEvery listing saying the same address and hours, the dead accounts closed, the catalogue readable, and a written note of what was changed where.
Ask us to do itWritten scope and a price in writing before anything is touched. Your listings, your accounts, your control.
Before anything else
Twenty businesses can share one name. We ask which one you mean.
“Meridian Traders” is not an identifier. Before we read anything, we find every business plausibly carrying that name and let you point at the right one — because a report assembled from two different companies is worse than no report at all.
How we tell them apart
Each candidate is shown with whatever distinguishes it: the locality, the trade it describes itself as being in, its website if it has one, and how long it has been visible in public sources.
Adding a city narrows it before you even see the list. A website or a GST number skips this step entirely — both point at exactly one business.
If nothing matches, we say so. We never quietly pick the largest or the nearest and present it as your answer.
What it reads
Not a summary of the homepage. Everything the business publishes.
Most tools that claim to look up a business return the name, the phone number and a rating. That is a directory entry, and you could have found it yourself. This goes to the bottom of what is actually there.
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Its own website
Every page it publishes, not the home page alone. What it sells, how the catalogue is organised, which brands it carries, what it claims about itself, and how to reach it.
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Where it appears
Map and directory listings, the hours and address each one carries, and its own social accounts — including the ones that stopped being updated.
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The public register
What a business is required to publish to trade: its registration, the form it takes, the state it registered in, and the dates attached to each.
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What it actually sells
The catalogue read properly — how many lines, which categories, which are priced and which are not, and where the range is thin.
The part nobody does
Each of those surfaces claims things: an address, a phone number, a set of hours, a trading name.
We put them side by side. Where two sources disagree, you see both, labelled with where each came from. That is usually the most useful line on the page, and it is the one a directory can never give you.
How deep it goes depends on them
A business with a website, a catalogue and a registration takes more reading than one with a single listing and a phone number.
So the search sizes itself to the business rather than running a fixed script. A thin business finishes quickly. There is nothing to pad it with, and we do not pad it.
What happens next
“This section says could not read.”
That is deliberate, and it is the reason to trust the rest of the page.
Three states, never two
A source can be down, slow, blocked, or asking for a login. A tool that reports every one of those as nothing found is telling you something it does not know.
So every item lands in one of three states: published, genuinely absent, or could not read. The third is shown as plainly as the other two.
Anything unread is left out of every count. If we read four of six sources, the page says four of six — it never quietly divides by six and hands you a smaller-looking number.
Why it matters
You are about to deal with them. What do they say about themselves?
A new supplier. A distributor asking for credit. A competitor you keep losing to. A business you are about to quote for. In every case the information already exists in public — it is simply never in one place.
What scattering costs you
The website says one thing, the map listing says another, and the register says a third. Nobody notices, because nobody ever opens all three in the same hour.
Then the delivery goes to an address the business left two years ago, or a quote is built on a range that turns out to be four lines deep.
What you get instead
One page. Every surface they publish, arranged, dated where a date exists, with disagreements shown rather than smoothed over.
Read it in a minute before the meeting, or keep it as the file on that business. It is the same work we do before we write anyone a proposal.
Where we stop
We read the business. We do not grade it.
This is a real limit, not modesty, and it is worth stating before you search.
There is no score on this page. No badge, no traffic light, no “verified” stamp, and no sentence beginning this business appears to be.
A thin public footprint is not evidence of anything. Plenty of solid businesses have one bad listing and no website. Plenty of polished websites belong to nobody in particular.
We show you what is published and where each piece came from. The judgement is yours to make, with your own knowledge of the trade — which is knowledge we do not have.
A real result
What a finished page actually holds.
Taken from a search on a computer hardware shop with a website, a catalogue and a listing — a fairly typical small trading business.
The line that earned its place
Their own website gave one address; their map listing gave another, three kilometres away. Neither is wrong on its face, and neither source would ever have told you about the other. A business that does not know this about itself is a business quietly losing deliveries and walk-ins.
Questions
The things people ask before they search.
Can I search my own business?
Yes, and it is the most useful first search. You find out what a customer sees when they look you up — including the listing you forgot existed, the address that never got updated, and the catalogue page that has been failing to load since last year.
Several businesses have the same name. What happens?
We show you every candidate we can find, each with the locality, the trade it describes itself as being in, and whether it has a website, and you pick. Adding a city shortens the list first. A website address or a GST number identifies one business exactly and skips the step.
Can I search by GST number?
Yes. A GST number points at exactly one registration, so there is no ambiguity to resolve — the read starts immediately and we work outwards from it to the website, the listings and the catalogue.
Where does the information come from?
Public sources only: the business's own website and social accounts, map and directory listings, and registers a business is required to appear in to trade. Nothing private, nothing bought from a data broker, and nothing behind a login. Every line on the result page names the source it came from.
Does it tell me whether a business is trustworthy?
No, and it never will. There is no score, badge or risk rating anywhere on the page. A thin public footprint is not evidence of anything — plenty of solid businesses have one listing and no website. We show what is published and where it came from; the judgement stays yours.
Why does one section say "could not read"?
Because a source was down, slow, blocked, or asking for a login. Calling that "nothing found" would report something we do not know, so it gets its own state and is excluded from every count on the page. Searching again later often reads it fine.
How current is it?
Each source is read at the moment you search — nothing is served from an old copy. What we cannot control is how current the source itself is: a listing nobody has updated for three years reads as three years old, and where a date exists we show it.
Will the business know I looked?
No. We read what is published the same way any visitor would. Nothing is submitted to them, no form is filled, and no message is sent.
Guardrails
We read. We never touch.
This tool contacts nobody and changes nothing. Everything it reports is something the business published itself or a public register it is required to appear in, read the way any visitor would read it.
One name. Everything it has published.
No sign-up, no login, no obligation. Start with your own business — it is the one search most people are surprised by.
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