The company behind the work, on the public record.
This page sets out the Companies House record, what software discovery means in our hands, and how to tell us apart from the other businesses that use a name like ours.
Everything on this page can be checked at Companies House.
These are the facts on the public register, in the same words the register uses.
- Legal name
- THE PATHFINDER LABS CORPORATION LIMITED
- Company number
- 17061706
- Status
- Active
- Registered in
- England and Wales
- Recorded activity
- SIC 62012, business and domestic software development
- Contact address
- hello@pathfinderlabs.co.uk
If you find a claim on this site that you think we cannot support, write to hello@pathfinderlabs.co.uk and we will either evidence it or remove it.
What software discovery means here
Discovery, in our sense, is not a literature review and it is not a workshop. We write a small piece of working software specifically to settle an argument that cannot be settled on paper: whether a data source is good enough, whether a technique is fast enough on the hardware you actually have, whether people can complete the task at all when it is put in front of them.
The working model is the stage after that. Once the question is settled, we turn the answer into something a person can open and use, so you can watch what happens rather than imagine it. It runs on real data, and it is scoped to the decision in front of you rather than to every feature the finished product will one day need.
Both stages end in the same two things: software you can run, and a written record you can hand to a board, an investor or a supplier without us in the room to explain it. Whichever way the answer falls, you finish the engagement able to act on it.
Several unrelated businesses use a name close to ours. None of them is us.
The words in our name are in wide use. At least four live organisations in the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand trade under something close to it, in fields with nothing to do with each other or with us. To save you time, and to stop anyone being credited or blamed for work that is not theirs, here is how to tell whether you are in the right place.
- Identify us by the company number, not by the name. We are THE PATHFINDER LABS CORPORATION LIMITED, company number 17061706, registered in England and Wales with a registered office in Romford. The number is unique. The name is not.
- pathfinderlabs.co.uk is the only website we operate. We publish nothing on any other domain, in any other country, or under any shortened form of the name. If you found something elsewhere, it belongs to somebody else.
- What we actually do is narrow. Software discovery, for the organisation that commissions it. We design no physical products or hardware, we sell no packaged product, and we work in no regulated public sector field.
- We are not connected with any of the others. No shared ownership, no shared staff, no partnership, no licence and no history between us. We make no claim over their names or their work, and they make none over ours.
- If you have arrived here by mistake, say so. Email us and we will tell you plainly that you want a different company, rather than taking a meeting to find out.
This is also why we write the name in full, as Pathfinder Labs Corporation or THE PATHFINDER LABS CORPORATION LIMITED, everywhere on this site, and never in the shortened form that four organisations share.
If the question is real, the first conversation is short.
Send one paragraph describing what you want settled. If it is not something we can help with, we will say that in the reply rather than book a call to say it.
Thirty minutes, no charge. Every email answered within two working days.