Statutory & company registers
Officers, shares, PSCs and the director's loan account; the IP the company owns and when it renews; insurance; contracts; right-to-work checks. The registers a real company has to keep, kept as data.
Statutory registers
Officers, share capital, persons with significant control, dividends and the director's loan account. Five registers on paper; one question in practice — who runs the company, who owns it, and what has moved between the company and its directors. Keeping them together is what makes that question answerable.
IP register
Trademarks, domains, patents and copyrights the company owns, each with its renewal date. The renewal date is the reason this register exists rather than a folder of certificates: a lapsed trademark and an expired domain are both silent failures until they are expensive ones.
Insurance
What is covered, with whom, expiring when. Employer's Liability is called out on its own because it is not a prudent extra like the rest of the list — for a UK company it is a legal requirement from the day it employs anyone.
Expiry dates are the working part of this register too. Cover that quietly lapsed is the failure mode.
Contracts
The agreements the company is bound by, with the counterparty, the key dates, and whether renewal is automatic. Auto-renewal is a field rather than a footnote for the obvious reason: it is the term that costs money without anyone deciding anything.
Right to work
Whether, when and how each person's right to work in the UK was verified. Deliberately a distinct register from the employee roster: the roster is who is here, this is proof that a specific statutory check was carried out, and conflating the two loses the proof.
They start empty
Nothing in any of these registers is inferred, guessed or seeded. A fresh install shows them empty because an empty register is honest and a pre-populated one is a lie that looks like a head start.