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The Governance Register occupies squares the incumbents structurally cannot reach: board-renewal timing, UK charity trustees, warm paths - and it is free, with no sales call to see any of it.
The one line every rival will not put on a page
BoardEx and Beauhurst each put their price behind a demo and a sales call, and publish no number (BoardEx, Beauhurst, checked 27th July 2026); LinkedIn Recruiter has never published a public rate card, though its own pricing page could not be checked directly on this occasion. This register is free - create an account and it opens, before you have spoken to anyone. See how access works ->
Capability by provider
Competitor capabilities and prices checked against their own public pages on 27th July 2026.
| The Governance Register | BoardEx | Beauhurst | LinkedIn Recruiter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PriceiPriceFull access is free - create an account and it opens, no form beyond that and no call. BoardEx and Beauhurst publish no price; LinkedIn Recruiter has no public rate card either, though its per-seat range is widely reported. | ✓ Free - create an account, no card, no sales call | No - demo-gated; no price published. Third-party estimates cluster around $20,000-30,000 a year but BoardEx does not confirm this | No - demo-gated; pricing not published | No public rate card; sales-led - per-seat estimates circulate from third parties - LinkedIn does not publish or confirm a figure |
| Charity trusteesiCharity trusteesMost UK charities - unincorporated trusts and associations - sit entirely outside the PSC (persons with significant control) regime; even charitable companies rarely generate a PSC filing that names trustees the way a company's own PSC record does. That is why a relationship-mapping tool built on the company and PSC record does not carry them. | ✓ Yes, from the Charity Commission register | No - covers some not-for-profit organisations, but not sourced from Charity Commission filings and not comprehensive across UK-registered charities | No - no charity trustee data | No - self-declared profiles, not a filed board record |
| Warm paths across boardsiWarm pathsBoardEx's own core sell is finding the strongest connection path, scoped to the executives and organisations it tracks - overwhelmingly corporate, with some curated not-for-profit coverage. | ✓ Yes, across charity, company and school boards, current and historical | Overwhelmingly corporate, with some curated not-for-profit coverage | No - no warm-path finder | - |
| Person-resolved from filingsiPerson-resolvedLinkedIn's own User Agreement disclaims "any implied warranty of ... accuracy" for profile data. | ✓ Yes, deterministic, from Companies House, the Charity Commission and GIAS | No - analyst-curated from mixed public sources; not deterministic, single-source-traceable per fact | Company-level data; no public description of person-resolution across boards | No - self-declared profile data |
| Charity board-renewal timingiCharity board-renewal timing53,186 of 167,201 charities with a computable board profile, out of 170,397 currently registered charities, carry the renewal-cliff flag today. A tool with no charity trustee data cannot compute a charity renewal signal at all. | ✓ 53,186 charity boards flagged past renewal age | No - no charity trustee data to compute it from | No - no charity trustee data to compute it from | No - cannot answer which boards renew next year |
| PSC / ownership layeriPSC / ownershipPersons with significant control (PSC) edges from the Companies House ownership record, graded before they are shown as fact. | ✓ Yes, 9.0 million PSC ownership edges | No - no PSC/ownership layer | - | - |
| Provenance to filing | ✓ Yes, every fact traces to a dated Companies House or Charity Commission filing | No - analyst-curated from mixed public sources; not deterministic, single-source-traceable per fact | Company-level data; no public description of appointment-level provenance | No - self-declared, not filing-based |
| School governors | ✓ Yes, from GIAS (Get Information About Schools) | No - does not cover UK school governors | - | - |
A blank cell is a capability we have not verified for that provider and make no claim about. None of BoardEx, Beauhurst or LinkedIn Recruiter publish a price; the figures shown for them above are third-party estimates, not the incumbents' own published numbers.
Where they beat us
Beauhurst holds real company financials we do not carry. BoardEx has deeper global corporate-board coverage than a UK-filings register can offer. LinkedIn Recruiter has far greater reach and self-authored biographies for people who have never sat on a UK board. Saying so plainly is what makes the rest of this page worth trusting.
Two more names, a different category
Nurole is a board-recruitment marketplace, not a research register: it runs searches for hiring organisations, and publishes no fee - its own pricing page requires a quote request. Basic candidate membership is free, per Nurole's own site. A service and a marketplace, worth naming fairly rather than folding into the table above as if it competed on the same ground.
OpenCorporates describes itself as holding the world's largest open legal-entity database, per its own site. Its own officer data dictionary shows officer records are not resolved to a single person across companies outside the UK; even for UK data, person-matching comes from Companies House's own identifiers, not from OpenCorporates' own resolution. It explicitly does not do the person-resolution that sits at the centre of what we do.
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