Legible is in beta. Founding users get 3 months of Professional free, plus 10 PPSR credits.
New Zealand company & director intelligence
Checking who you're dealing with means jumping between several government portals and piecing the picture together by hand. Legible joins them into one clear view: companies, directors, security interests and insolvency history, with the relationships drawn for you.
Built on official New Zealand registers. No credit card to start.
Illustration using fictional sample data — not real companies or people.
One search across every official register
To answer one question — who is this company, who runs it, and are there red flags? — you currently work through every register by hand, then assemble the picture yourself. There's no relationship view, and nothing tells you when something changes.
to check a single company with two directors, and longer once related entities are involved.
With Legible
Every feature works from the same data: the full register of around 745,000 New Zealand companies, joined across sources so the connections are already there when you look.
Company profile
Status, directors, shareholders, registered office, PPSR security interests and insolvency history, joined into a single profile with risk signals surfaced inline — including adverse-signal screening across the NZ Gazette, WorkSafe enforcement and the sanctions register.
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Network graph
An interactive graph of the directors and shareholders behind a company, and every other entity they're tied to. Pan, zoom and expand nodes to map a structure that would take hours to trace by hand. This is the part no other NZ tool gives you.
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Change timeline & watchlists
Add companies to a watchlist and see a clear, dated history of register changes: director appointments and resignations, status changes and name changes. On Professional, Legible checks your watched companies daily and emails you when something changed.
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Due-diligence report
Turn a profile into a dated, source-attributed PDF for your file: the company, its people, security interests and history, ready to attach to a client matter or onboarding pack.
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Who it's for
If part of your job is working out who's behind a business and whether to trust it, Legible turns an afternoon of portal-hopping into a few minutes.
Onboard business clients and run advisory due diligence without four browser tabs and a spreadsheet.
Map corporate structures and check counterparties for transactions, contracts and credit arrangements.
Assess a business before you extend terms: security interests and insolvency signals in one look.
Map director history, related entities and the asset-security picture fast when you're appointed.
Trace ownership and related companies across the full register by following the people behind them.
Suppliers, landlords and partners checking a new business relationship before they commit.
Honest by design
Legible surfaces public-register information for you to apply your own judgement to. We're deliberately plain about its limits, because that's what professional use requires.
Every view shows an as-of date, so you always know how current the information is, and can refresh it.
Data carries its source register so you can verify anything critical directly with the official record.
NZ registers have no unique person identifier. Where we link people across companies, we say so. We don't pretend to a certainty the data can't support.
Legible is not a credit score, financial advice, or AML/CFT certification. It shows you the information; the judgement stays yours.
Pricing
One straightforward paid plan, priced for individual professionals and small firms rather than enterprise compliance budgets.
We're onboarding a first group of founding users. You get full Professional access free for 3 months and 10 PPSR credits. We get your honest feedback while we build. Limited places.
Free forever
excl. GST
Everyone starts the same way: create an account, confirm your email, then choose Free or upgrade to Professional. No separate sign-up, and no card needed to begin. PPSR searches are billed as you use them, in credit packs of 10 for $15 (excl. GST), so only the people who need them pay for them. All prices exclude GST, which is added at checkout for New Zealand customers.
Need Legible tailored to your firm, or integrated with your existing systems? Talk to us.
Create a free account and search any New Zealand company today, or apply to join the founding-user beta for 3 months of Professional, free.