We make companies fundable and saleable.
When a company raises money, is audited or is sold, someone reads its governance record. Appoint is built so that record exists, and so it holds up when it is read. For UK companies, and for the people who govern them.
Built in the UK, for UK company law
Every raise, audit and sale begins with someone reading the record.
Who sits on the board, and on what authority. What was decided, when, and by whom. Whether what was filed matches what was agreed. An investor, an auditor or a buyer will ask for all of it, and will judge the company by how quickly and how cleanly it arrives.
Most companies cannot hand that record over in a form that stands up, because it was never kept as one. It sits across inboxes, shared drives and a minute book nobody has opened in years. The people best placed to keep it properly, company secretaries and governance teams, spend their weeks on administration instead.
The record is an asset. Most companies treat it as an archive.
One record. Four people who have to rely on it.
Founders
Building to raise or to exit
The governance record a term sheet will read, kept from the first board meeting rather than reconstructed in the data room.
Company secretaries and governance teams
In-house
The administration handled to a standard the board can sign. The judgement, and the time for it, kept where it belongs.
Firms that run governance for clients
Law firms, accountants and corporate service providers
One standard across every client company, and a record each client can take with them and show to whoever asks.
Investors who sit on boards
Angels, funds and their nominees
A portfolio whose governance can be read before the question is asked, and will bear reading when it is.
UK company law is tightening. Who decided what now matters more than it did.
Identity verification at Companies House. New forms of corporate liability for what senior people do in a company’s name. Each change asks the same thing of a company: show who decided what, and on what authority.
The companies that can answer will be the easier ones to fund, to audit and to buy. Appoint is built for that question, and for the companies that intend to answer it well.
Identity, verified.
Who runs a company is now checked at the register, not taken on trust.
Liability, extended.
What a company’s senior people decide is now, in law, what the company decided.
Decisions, on the record.
The question is no longer whether a record exists, but whether it can be read and believed.
What we hold to.
Human judgement stays in charge.
Nothing about a company is decided by software. People decide, and the record says who, so that accountability sits exactly where the law puts it.
The record is checkable.
A record is only worth keeping if someone else can examine it. Ours is built to be examined by the people who have to rely on it.
Built in the UK, for UK company law.
Designed around the Companies Acts and the registrar, not adapted from another jurisdiction’s idea of governance.
Security and privacy, taken seriously.
A company’s governance record is among the most sensitive things it holds. We treat it that way, in how we build and in how we run.
Keep a record worth reading.
Tell us about your company and what is ahead of it: a raise, an audit, a sale, or the next board meeting. A person will reply.