Commercial & Revenue
Find companies when something important has changed.
Grand helps commercial teams identify businesses that are growing, investing, hiring, expanding, restructuring, or increasing capacity using live company intelligence across 6.2 million UK businesses. Prioritise accounts earlier, engage with more context, and uncover opportunities before competitors see them.
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What is commercial intelligence?
Commercial intelligence helps revenue teams identify, prioritise, and engage businesses using live company data, growth signals, financial information, and commercial context. Grand goes beyond traditional firmographics and contact data — surfacing hiring, expansion, financing, ownership change, Credit Capacity movement, Momentum, and Trust Network signals across 6.2 million UK businesses so commercial, SDR, AE, RevOps, partnerships, and business development teams find companies entering a buying cycle before competitors see them.
The real challenge
The strongest buying signals rarely start online.
Most sales and marketing platforms infer intent from website visits, content consumption, search behaviour, or advertising engagement. Grand monitors the company itself. Hiring, expansion, financing, ownership changes, Credit Capacity growth, and positive Momentum often signal commercial opportunity long before a prospect visits a website or fills out a form.
Traditional intent platforms
Infers interest.
Grand
Observes change.
Observable company change beats inferred intent.
Stop chasing inferred signals. Start observing what's actually happening.
Buying cycle
Find companies entering a buying cycle.
Most prospecting tools help you find companies. Grand helps you find companies that are changing. By monitoring business growth, investment, hiring, financing, expansion, ownership changes, and company Momentum, Grand helps revenue teams identify businesses that may be entering a buying cycle before the wider market notices.
Signals we monitor
Opportunity feed · Live
Northern Trading Co.
Hiring accelerated
12 senior roles posted this week
Pinewood Logistics Ltd
Credit Capacity increased
Upgraded by one tier
Helix Manufacturing
New director appointed
Commercial Director hired
Cresta Foods Group
Business expansion detected
New site lease signed
Aldridge Technologies
Momentum upgraded
Improving across 3 dimensions
A commercial opportunity feed — not a CRM.
Prioritisation
Not every prospect is a good prospect.
The best prospect is not simply interested. It is capable. Grand combines commercial signals with Credit Capacity, business health, financial strength, Momentum, and company stability so teams can focus on organisations that both show opportunity and have the capacity to become customers.
Commercial Opportunity
High Opportunity + Low Capacity
Monitor
Strong signals but limited buying capacity — keep watching for capacity to catch up.
High Opportunity + High Capacity
Prioritise now
Strongest commercial signal + capacity to act. Move first.
Low Opportunity + Low Capacity
Deprioritise
No active signal and limited capacity — focus elsewhere.
Low Opportunity + High Capacity
Nurture
Capacity is there but no active commercial signal yet. Stay close — opportunity may emerge.
Buying Capacity
Focus where opportunity AND capacity meet.
Commercial intelligence
Most company intelligence is static.
Traditional providers tell you who a company is. Grand helps you understand what is happening to them. By continuously monitoring company change, Grand helps commercial teams identify opportunity earlier and engage with more context.
What competitors give you
Who a company is.
- Revenue
- Employees
- SIC codes
- Credit scores
- Firmographics
- Contact data
What Grand gives you
What’s happening to them.
- Momentum
- Credit Capacity movement
- Filing Behaviour
- Ownership changes
- Director changes
- Network Analysis
- Trust Network signals
Traditional business intelligence tells you who a company is.
Grand tells you what’s happening to them.
Commercial context
Walk into every conversation knowing more.
Grand helps commercial teams understand the context behind an opportunity. Why is the company growing? Why is capacity increasing? Why did Momentum improve? What changed? What should happen next? Every opportunity is backed by explainable signals rather than guesswork.
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Why is the company growing?
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Why is capacity increasing?
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Why did Momentum improve?
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What changed — and what should happen next?
Opportunity brief · Pinewood Logistics Ltd
Pinewood Logistics Ltd
Updated 12 minutes ago
Growth indicators
12 senior hires in the last 8 weeks. Two new sites leased.
Credit Capacity
Upgraded one tier. Now able to support larger commitments.
Momentum
Improving across financial movement, hiring, and network activity.
Structure
Holding-company structure stable. Two trading entities active.
Network Analysis
Connected to 3 high-performing companies in adjacent sectors.
Recommended talking points
New site capacity. Expansion timing. Adjacent-sector partnerships.
Opportunity intelligence — not contact enrichment.
Early opportunity
By the time a prospect raises their hand, competitors are already there.
Most revenue teams wait for a company to signal intent directly. The strongest opportunities often emerge much earlier through observable company change. Grand helps commercial teams identify those changes before they become obvious to the market.
Company hires CFO
New Chief Financial Officer appointed. Budget authority shifts.
New financing secured
£8M growth facility announced. Capital available for investment.
Expansion announced
New site search reported in trade press. Capacity decision underway.
New location opened
First new location lease signed. Operational scale-up begins.
Website visit detected
Prospect lands on pricing page. Intent now visible to traditional platforms.
Competitors arrive
The buying cycle started long before the website visit.
Grand helps commercial teams find companies at Week 1 — not Week 18.
One version of the truth
Commercial, credit, treasury, and compliance teams should not work from different data.
The same signals used by commercial teams to identify opportunities are used by credit teams to assess risk, treasury teams to understand exposure, compliance teams to monitor counterparties, and risk teams to track deterioration. Every team operates from the same underlying company intelligence.
Commercial
Identify companies entering a buying cycle. Prioritise accounts. Prepare context.
Credit
Underwrite. Monitor exposure. Manage limits.
Grand
One signal layer.
Live company intelligence shared by every team.
Treasury
Recalibrate reserves. Adjust forecasts. Release capital.
Compliance
Maintain perpetual KYB. Investigate change. Preserve audit evidence.
Risk
Track deterioration. Surface portfolio movers. Escalate exceptions.
One signal layer. Five teams. One version of the truth.
What traditional commercial data misses
Five signal layers traditional sales and business intelligence platforms don't see.
Most commercial data products tell you who a company is, where it is, what it does, and how big it is. Grand adds live company-change intelligence that traditional sales intelligence and business intelligence platforms cannot see.
Momentum
Which companies are improving?
Grand reads financial movement, hiring, digital footprint, trade presence, accreditations, and network activity to surface companies whose trajectory is improving — long before it shows up in headline numbers.
Credit Capacity
Which companies can afford to buy?
Grand quantifies how much a company can support in commercial commitment. Combined with commercial signals, it tells revenue teams who is both interested and capable.
Filing Behaviour
Can we trust the information?
Grand evaluates whether a company's filings appear complete, consistent, timely, and reliable. Commercial decisions built on inconsistent filings are unreliable by definition.
Network Analysis
What opportunities or risks exist around them?
Grand maps directors, owners, group entities, and the trading network around every company — surfacing adjacent opportunities and connected-entity risk.
Trust Network Signals
What is Grand observing that public records cannot?
Trust Network Signals surface improvement, growth, or deterioration signals from across the wider Grand network — early indicators that don't appear in single-company analysis.
How Grand AI helps commercial
AI explains. Humans decide.
Grand AI does not run sales outreach or manage pipeline. It explains opportunity signals, summarises growth drivers, prioritises accounts, and prepares the context revenue teams take into every conversation. Humans remain responsible for the conversation, the relationship, and the decision.
What Grand AI helps with
What Grand AI does not do
Products
Three products. One commercial signal layer.
Grand combines company assessment, monitoring, and explainable intelligence so commercial teams can identify opportunities, prioritise accounts, and engage with more context.
Workflow impact
The entire credit workflow. Connected.
Assess businesses, monitor risk, explain decisions, and act before exposure builds. Grand replaces disconnected credit checks, monitoring tools, and spreadsheets with one continuous trust workflow.
How it works
From trust signal to business decision.
Grand continuously collects, verifies, interprets, and monitors business data so teams can assess counterparties, make decisions, and act before risk becomes exposure.
Discover
Find any business and instantly access a live profile built from Companies House, court records, compliance data, ownership information, and operational signals.
Understand
Grand transforms raw data into explainable intelligence across structure, status, compliance, filing behaviour, financial analysis, momentum, network exposure, risk of failure, and credit capacity.
Decide
Make onboarding, lending, supplier, customer, and credit decisions with clear evidence, documented rationale, and confidence in the underlying data.
Monitor
Every profile remains under continuous monitoring. When risk changes, filings arrive, directors move, or new warning signs emerge, Grand surfaces them automatically.
Continuous Trust Monitoring
INTELLIGENCE ENGINE
Every signal is checked, explained, and watched.
Grand powers company credit checks, business risk monitoring, customer onboarding, and AI credit analysis through a single intelligence engine. Every company profile is built from verified business data, enriched with additional signals, continuously monitored for change, and transformed into explainable decisions that teams can trust.
Unlike traditional credit reports, Grand does not stop at collecting data. Every source is verified, every signal is assessed for accuracy and confidence, every recommendation is explained, and every profile is monitored continuously as new information emerges.
Layer 01
Verified Data
Grand collects information from Companies House, court records, Gazette notices, director histories, compliance registries, banking data, accounting systems, and customer-provided information. Every source is validated before becoming part of a company profile.
Layer 02
Explainable Intelligence
Grand transforms raw business data into Structure, Status, Compliance, Filing Behaviour, Financial Analysis, Momentum, Network Analysis, Risk of Failure, and Credit Capacity. Every assessment is traceable back to the underlying evidence.
Layer 03
Continuous Monitoring
Every profile remains under active monitoring. When filings arrive, directors change, court events occur, ownership shifts, or risk deteriorates, Grand updates the profile automatically and surfaces what changed.
Sources
Companies House
Accounts, charges, mortgages, officers, ownership structures, and statutory filings.
Court Records
CCJs, winding-up petitions, insolvency events, and legal actions.
Gazette Notices
Strike-offs, administrations, liquidations, and statutory announcements.
Director & Ownership Data
Appointments, resignations, disqualifications, ownership chains, and connected entities.
Connected Business Data
Banking, accounting, ERP, payment, and commercial data shared with consent.
Customer-Provided Information
Contracts, guarantees, onboarding responses, documents, and declarations.
VERIFY. INTERPRET. EXPLAIN. MONITOR.
Grand Intelligence
Verify
Checks source legitimacy, freshness, conflicts, completeness, and confidence.
Interpret
Builds Structure, Status, Compliance, Filing Behaviour, Financial Analysis, Momentum, Network Analysis, Risk of Failure, and Credit Capacity.
Explain
Provides evidence, cited reasoning, decision drivers, and AI-powered explanations.
Monitor
Continuously watches every profile and every signal for change.
Outcomes
Company Credit Checks
Live business credit assessments with Risk of Failure, Credit Capacity, and supporting evidence.
Business Risk Monitoring
Continuous monitoring across customers, suppliers, borrowers, and portfolios.
Customer Onboarding
KYB, identity verification, policy decisions, and audit-ready approvals.
AI Credit Analysis
Plain-English explanations, cited evidence, decision rationale, and recommended next actions.
Audit Trail
Every signal, recommendation, decision, and change recorded and traceable.
Trust every decision.
Every company credit check, onboarding decision, risk assessment, and AI recommendation produced by Grand is backed by verified source data, transparent reasoning, and continuous monitoring.
Customer stories
“We were hours away from letting him walk out of the store with over £100k worth of machinery and then Grand notified us that his company had an administrator appointed by the courts that very day.”
Gary Delahunt
Managing Director — NF Machinery
£100k
Bad debt avoided on the same day Grand flagged a court-appointed administrator.
“Within a week of switching to Grand, we caught two late-filing signals that would have shipped £40k in goods on credit. The bureau gave us nothing on either.”
Sarah Chen
Credit Controller — Northstar Trading
£40k
Bad debt caught the same week Grand's first alerts fired across the new portfolio.
“We embedded Grand's API into our onboarding flow. New customer approval went from 48 hours to under 3 minutes, and our default rate dropped 60% in the first quarter.”
Daniel Park
Head of Product, Embedded Lending — Lattice Capital
60%
Drop in default rate after embedding Grand into the onboarding flow.
Commercial intelligence FAQs
Your commercial intelligence questions, answered.
Enterprise-grade security and compliance
Grand is designed to help organisations meet security, privacy, compliance, and operational risk requirements from day one.
Independent controls covering security, availability, confidentiality, and operational processes.
Designed to support UK and EU data protection requirements.
Information security controls and risk management practices across the platform.
Regulatory oversight for applicable financial services and payment-related operations.
Industry-standard controls for secure payment data handling.
Commercial & revenue
Find companies when something important has changed.
Give commercial, SDR, AE, RevOps, partnerships, and business development teams a live signal layer for finding the companies that matter — before competitors do.
Integrations
Slots into the credit and finance stack your team already runs — accounting, ERP, and operational tools across the UK SMB and mid-market.
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