About
Who’s behind Check the Director
I’m John Haigh. I studied law at university and have spent my career since as a self-employed IT consultant to large international organisations — in investment banking, defence and aerospace, energy, technology, media and consumer goods. I’ve also built and run my own web services, including teachersdelivered.co.uk and plannexus.io.
That work taught me to treat data the way regulated industries do: every figure traceable, every process repeatable.
Running my own businesses meant regularly deciding whether to work with someone new — a partner, a supplier, a client. Each time, I did the checks myself on Companies House: tracing appointments, opening the filings, reading the accounts and liquidation papers, and working out which questions to ask. It worked, but it took hours, and the most telling documents were often scanned PDFs that the register’s search can’t see into.
Check the Director is that process, done thoroughly and the same way every time. It reads the filings, measures them against twenty-eight published criteria, and cites every figure to the document it came from, and the page where there is one, so you can check it yourself. It describes what the record shows, never what it means about the person. That judgement stays with you.
Check the Director is run by me, trading as Priorform, and registered with the ICO (ZC269901). If you have a question before you buy, contact me directly.