You click into a company to decide whether it is worth writing to, and the card answered about four of the questions you were asking. Founded, employees, address, website. Everything else you had to take on trust or go and check yourself: whether the company is still trading, whether it is a head office or one shop in a chain, whether the domain you are about to reference is the live one or an old one it redirects from.

We held the answers. They were in the database and not on the screen.

Registration. The company's number in its own register, its legal name where that differs from the trading name, its VAT ID, and whether the register still lists it as active. Where the register publishes a stable page for a company — Companies House and the French SIRENE directory today — the number is a link straight to it, so a claim you are about to put in an email is one click from the source.

The legal name is worth its own line. It is the name that goes on a contract, and it is routinely not the name on the website.

Who owns whom. If a row is a branch, a franchise or a subsidiary, the card names the parent and links to it; if it is the parent, it tells you how many locations sit under it. A franchisee has its own owner and its own budget and buys for itself; a branch of the same chain does not. The card says which, in those words, because it changes who you should be writing to.

Every domain, with what each one is for. A company legitimately has several — a country site, a product site, an old domain it still redirects from — and the card now lists all of them with the full address and a label, instead of showing one and hiding the rest.

Official industry codes, in words. A bare 70229 tells you nothing, so where we have the authority's own table we show its title next to the code: "SIC 70229 · Management consultancy activities". Alongside the industry tags, which now say plainly that search uses them at 80% confidence and above, so the percentage on each tag means something.

Recent activity. When we last saw the company hiring, advertising, filing or launching something — the freshest thing we know about it, and the part that decides whether this week is a good week to write.

And the empty parts are gone. Most of what we know is uneven: plenty of companies have a registration number and no website, or a website and nobody named. The card used to print a label and "No data" for each gap, so a company we knew three things about looked broken. Now a section with nothing in it is not there at all — and the people table, which was the worst of it, no longer appears as an empty grid with seven column headings over a company that has nobody listed.

Everything above is on the API as well, on /api/v1/discovery/companies/<guid>/details/, and through the MCP tools.