company
Enable an AI agent to identify a company, assess its organisational and commercial state, and determine which actions require authority, evidence or further review.
Research draft, second pass
A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.
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Researched by: Codex
Purpose and description
Enable an AI agent to identify a company, assess its organisational and commercial state, and determine which actions require authority, evidence or further review.
A company is an organisation constituted under a recognised legal form to conduct business or other specified activities, with rules governing its ownership or membership, management and liabilities.
It can be Resolve company identity against constituting documents and authoritative registers.; Trace ownership and control while preserving uncertain or disputed links.; Check whether a proposed transaction has the required company authority and operating permissions.; Assess operating continuity using dated evidence of activity, resources and obligations.; Prepare company actions for authorised review, including appointments, filings and contractual commitments.; Track changes of name, control or lifecycle status without losing identity or confusing a successor with the original company..
Distinguishing features
Determine whether the referent is the business organisation itself rather than its trading name, brand, premises or workforce.
Establish the organisation's constituting basis and business purpose; do not infer company status merely from selling goods or services.
Check whether the referent has its own organisational or registered identity rather than being a branch, department or business unit of another company.
Distinguish a single company from the corporate group it belongs to, even where names, management or branding overlap.
Treat startup company and joint-stock company as narrower classifications that add features to company rather than replace its identity.
Scope
+ Company identity, constituting instruments, registration and jurisdiction
+ Ownership, control, governing bodies and delegated decision rights
+ Business activities, operating capacity and company-level obligations
+ Capital, financial condition and continuity of operations
+ Formation, restructuring, merger, cessation and dissolution
- Buildings, equipment and other assets as independently modelled things
- Brands, trademarks and products as independently modelled commercial identities
- Employees and officers as people, occupations or employment relationships
- Markets and industries in which the company participates
- Startup-specific development stages and joint-stock-specific capital arrangements
- Corporate groups as aggregates of distinct organisations
Characteristics
- Identity anchors
- Registered name; register and identifier; LEI where available; unverified identity Supports reliable matching without treating a shared name as proof of identity.
- Constituting form
- Jurisdiction-specific organisational or legal form; unknown Determines which governance, capital and responsibility rules require investigation.
- Jurisdictional connections
- Place of constitution; registered office; operating jurisdictions Separates the company's constituting context from the places where it conducts business.
- Ownership and control
- Owners, members, beneficial owners and controllers, with basis and effective dates Identifies economic interests and decision influence without assuming they coincide.
- Authority structure
- Governing bodies, officers and delegates linked to powers, limits and validity periods Allows an agent to establish who may approve or bind the company.
- Business activity
- Declared activities; observed activities; principal activity; applicable classifications Distinguishes stated purpose from actual operations and identifies relevant permissions.
- Registration and lifecycle status
- Status reported by the relevant register or constituting evidence, with effective date Prevents a historical company record from being treated as proof of current existence or capacity.
- Operating condition
- Pre-operational; operating; dormant; ceasing operations; unknown Distinguishes business activity from formal registration status.
- Available liquidity
- Currency amount at a stated date, with restrictions and reporting boundary Helps assess whether near-term commitments can be met using resources actually available to the company.
- Financial reporting boundary
- Individual company; consolidated group; other explicitly defined perimeter Prevents group resources and results from being attributed to a single company.
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.company-4
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 6 bundles · 11 layers · 18 findings · 28 questions.
Company identity and constitution Establishes which organisation is being modelled and the basis on which it exists.
Names and commercial appearances do not establish company identity, legal personality or continuity.
Identity and register evidence
Connects the company to dated identifiers and distinguishes it from related commercial names.
Company identity resolution
Record the evidence needed to distinguish this company from namesakes, brands, branches and group entities.
- Which register, identifier or constituting record identifies this company, and when was it checked? provenance
- Which names refer to this company, and which instead identify a brand, branch or separate group entity? boundary
Constituting basis and jurisdiction
Establishes the company's organisational form and the evidence for its legal capacities.
Form, personality and capacity
Record the constituting form without assuming separate legal personality, limited liability or a particular ownership structure.
- What instrument and jurisdiction establish the company's form and status? provenance
- What evidence establishes whether it can hold assets, incur obligations and act separately from its owners or members? definition
Ownership, control and authority Separates economic interests, practical control and powers to make company decisions.
An owner, controller, director and authorised signatory may have different powers and responsibilities.
Ownership and control interests
Describes membership, capital interests and mechanisms of control.
Economic and voting rights
Record who holds relevant interests and how those interests translate into influence.
- Who holds ownership or membership interests, and what economic and voting rights accompany each interest? definition
- Which documents substantiate direct ownership, beneficial ownership or control through agreements and intermediate entities? provenance
Governance and delegation
Maps company decisions to the bodies and people empowered to make them.
Decision and signing powers
Identify approval requirements and valid delegations for a proposed company action.
- Which body or person may approve and execute the proposed action, subject to what limits or joint-signature requirements? action
- Which current appointment, resolution or delegation demonstrates that authority? provenance
Business activity and commitments Connects what the company does to its operating resources, permissions and obligations.
A constituted company may lack the capability or permission to perform a particular commercial activity.
Commercial purpose and operation
Distinguishes declared business activities from evidenced operations.
Actual business capability
Record how the company conducts business and which dependencies enable delivery.
- What goods, services, investment or holding activities does the company actually undertake, and what evidence distinguishes these from declared activities? provenance
- Which people, assets, suppliers or group services must remain available for the company to fulfil its commitments? boundary
Permissions and company obligations
Identifies conditions on operations and commitments attributable to this company.
Operating permission and obligation boundary
Associate relevant licences, contracts and duties with the correct company and activity.
- Which permissions and contractual conditions must be verified before the company undertakes the proposed activity? action
- Which commitments belong to this company, and which belong to an owner, subsidiary, contractor or other group entity? boundary
Capital, finance and continuity Assesses the company's financing arrangements and ability to sustain its obligations.
Capital structure, accounting results and usable cash answer different questions about company condition.
Funding and capital claims
Describes resources supplied to the company and the claims attached to them.
Funding rights and restrictions
Record equity or other capital arrangements, debt and conditions affecting access to funding.
- What capital contributions, borrowing and other funding support the company, and what repayment or distribution rights attach to them? definition
- Which covenants, security interests or restrictions constrain additional borrowing, distributions or use of funds? action
Financial condition and reporting
Uses dated financial evidence with an explicit company boundary.
Capacity to meet obligations
Assess financial continuity without equating revenue, profit, cash availability and formal insolvency status.
- What unrestricted liquidity and committed funding are available against obligations falling due over the assessment period? measurement
- Do the supporting accounts and forecasts concern this company alone or a wider consolidated group, and what assurance accompanies them? provenance
Company lifecycle and succession Tracks the company's existence, operating transitions and consequences of structural change.
Commercial inactivity, ownership changes and legal termination have different effects on identity and permissible actions.
Existence and operating status
Separates formal lifecycle evidence from current business activity.
Dated company status
Record registration status and operating condition as distinct, time-dependent assessments.
- What is the company's latest evidenced registration or constituting status, with effective date and source? provenance
- Is the company conducting business, dormant or ceasing operations, and what evidence supports that assessment? measurement
Restructuring and succession
Distinguishes changes within the company from transfers to another entity or termination.
Identity through corporate change
Track the effect of renaming, control changes, mergers, asset transfers and dissolution on company identity and obligations.
- Does the recorded event preserve this company's identity, create a successor relationship or end its existence? boundary
- Which approvals, transfer instruments and effective dates must be verified before treating assets, obligations or authority as transferred or terminated? action
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Check these first
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- This describes the organisational sense of company, excluding companionship, military units and performing ensembles.
- The listed kinds overlap and are not a universal legal taxonomy; separate personality and limited liability must be checked for the specific form and jurisdiction.
- This is recall-based coverage: no sources were consulted, and no particular company's registration, reporting obligations or identifiers are asserted.
- Which of these check these first hold for the sense of company this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Kinds and varieties
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Private limited company
- Public limited company
- Company limited by guarantee
- Unlimited company
- Joint-stock company
- Nonprofit company
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of company this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Identifiers and schemes
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- National company register number - Jurisdiction-specific numeric or alphanumeric identifier - Identifies a registered entity within the issuing register; the register and jurisdiction are needed to interpret it.
- Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), ISO 17442 - 20-character alphanumeric code - Identifies a legal entity in the Global LEI System; not every company has an LEI.
- Registered company name - Registered name, often including a legal-form suffix - Names can change and are not globally unique.
- Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of company this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Standards and regulation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- ISO 17442, issued by the International Organization for Standardization, specifies the Legal Entity Identifier.
- IFRS Accounting Standards, issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, govern financial reporting where adopted or required.
- National company legislation, enacted by the relevant legislature, governs formation, governance, filing obligations and dissolution.
- Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of company this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Organising the production and sale of goods or services
- Holding assets and entering contracts through an enduring organisational structure
- Raising capital through ownership interests or borrowing
- Allocating governance rights and financial responsibilities among participants
- Operating subsidiaries and coordinating corporate groups
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of company this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Insolvency or inability to meet payment obligations
- Governance failures, conflicts of interest and misuse of organisational assets
- Fraudulent reporting or concealment of ownership and control
- Operational failures that interrupt business or harm workers, customers or the environment
- Failure to meet registration, filing or other applicable obligations
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of company this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Regional variation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- The scope of the word company and its relationship to corporation, partnership and other legal forms vary by jurisdiction.
- Separate legal personality, limited liability, minimum capital and disclosure requirements depend on the legal form and jurisdiction.
- Permitted ownership structures, board arrangements and employee participation in governance differ across jurisdictions.
- Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of company this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Startup company - A startup is a company distinguished by its early development and typically its search for a scalable business model; company does not imply a particular age or growth strategy.
- Joint-stock company - A joint-stock company has capital divided into shares; the broader company category also includes forms without share capital.
- Corporation - Corporation denotes an incorporated legal body; its overlap with company depends on jurisdiction, and corporations can include bodies outside ordinary business usage.
- Business - Business can denote an economic activity or undertaking; a company is an organisational form through which such activity may be conducted.
- Corporate group - A corporate group comprises multiple related entities, while an individual company is one constituent organisation.
- Brand - A brand identifies or differentiates an offering or commercial identity; one company may own several brands, and a brand may change owners.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of company this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Does the registry intend company to include unincorporated business organisations, or only particular constituted legal forms?
- Which existing Vercy organisation or world model already owns shared company concepts and should supply inherited structure?
- Which jurisdiction-specific sources establish legal personality, liability arrangements and permitted company forms for instances being modelled?
- How should conflicting or incomplete evidence about beneficial ownership, practical control and signing authority be represented?
- Which evidence and assessment periods are sufficient to distinguish dormant operations, financial distress, formal insolvency proceedings and termination?