Hackford is a financial data platform that unifies regulatory, company, and people data from FCA, SEC, and Companies House into a single searchable interface. It helps teams find, understand, and monitor regulated financial services firms, with exports and API workflows for CRM enrichment and target-list building.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Financial services firms and their regulatory data are scattered across multiple public registers, including the FCA Register, SEC adviser data, and Companies House. Manually stitching together these sources to segment firms, track senior-manager changes, or identify cross-border footprints is time-consuming and error-prone, leaving teams with stale lists and missed signals.
Solution
Hackford provides a unified data platform that joins FCA, SEC, Companies House, and proprietary classification data into one searchable, classified view of the regulated market. Users can search firms by permissions, status, relationships, and geography; open detailed profiles with traceable source identifiers; and monitor changes through saved searches and watchlists. The platform supports CRM-ready exports, API enrichment, and MCP-based AI agent workflows, so teams can move from market questions to actionable lists without manual register work. Hackford also tracks people, relationships, and change signals like role movements and permission shifts, making it possible to act on regulatory events as they happen.
Target Audience
Primary customers are business development, compliance, regtech, legal, and distribution teams at asset managers, MPS/DFM providers, platforms, and adviser-service firms that need cleaner target universes and timely change signals across regulated financial services firms.
Features
- Search builder combining classification, status, permissions, geography, SEC footprint, people, and relationship criteria into precise, repeatable populations
- Firm profiles with source identifiers, permissions, senior-manager roles, Companies House context, and relationship history, all traceable to their original register
- Watchlists and weekly email alerts for role changes, authorisation updates, permission shifts, fines, and AR/principal relationship movements
- Exports and API enrichment with stable firm IDs, classifications, regulatory footprint, and latest-change fields for CRM and internal tooling
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) support for AI agents, enabling structured access to Hackford workflows without API keys
- Cross-border resolution for dual-regulated firms, including FCA permissions and SEC adviser footprints, with 698 dual FCA+SEC firms identified
- People and relationship tracking across 82,000+ senior managers and 33,000+ AR/principal links, with 4,000+ role changes detected monthly