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Forrit

Forrit is an IT services firm based in Edinburgh, incorporated in Scotland in 2017 (SC562197).

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Forrit is an IT services firm based in Edinburgh. (Companies House, ayeoh's record) It was incorporated in Scotland on 31 Mar 2017 as company SC562197. It was earlier called CORTEX WORLDWIDE (HOLDINGS) LIMITED. (Companies House)

Companies House lists 6 active officers, among them John Maclaren Ogilvie Waddell (director, since Mar 2017), Peter Proud (director, since Mar 2017) and Jeremy John Orr Barton (director, since Dec 2017). (Companies House, profile card) Its own website's latest post is “2024/25 Cloud Awards Finalist”, from 25 Sep 2025. (Latest from Forrit, the post) Its latest filed accounts, for the year to 31 Mar 2025, show 6 employees on average. (Companies House, Financials)

Latest from Forrit

2024/25 Cloud Awards Finalist

25 Sep 2025, from forrit.com, posted by the company

Integration fears Hold Back Change

20 Aug 2025, from forrit.com, posted by the company

Sky’s the Limit for Forrit After Bank’s £7M Backing

17 Jul 2024, from forrit.com, posted by the company

Forrit One Wins Cloud Innovation of the Year

from forrit.com, posted by the company

Financials

Total equity: £8.2m (31 Mar 2025)
Employees: 6 on average (31 Mar 2025)
Profit for the year: £0 (31 Mar 2025)

Next accounts due 31 Dec 2026.

1 charge registered at Companies House as outstanding: security over the company's assets for borrowing or another obligation, per the 1 Oct 2026 register snapshot. See the charges

From the accounts made up to 31 Mar 2025, group accounts, as tagged in the filing. The filings at Companies House

Accounts, year by year

Year end	Profit	Staff
31 Mar 2025	£0	6
31 Dec 2023	-£103	7
31 Dec 2022

Only the figures each year's filed accounts tag; a blank is a figure the company did not file. The filings at Companies House

Timeline

25 Sep 2025from the company2024/25 Cloud Awards Finalist
20 Aug 2025from the companyIntegration fears Hold Back Change
31 Mar 2025accountsAccounts year end
17 Jul 2024from the companySky’s the Limit for Forrit After Bank’s £7M Backing
31 Dec 2023accountsAccounts year end
31 Dec 2022accountsAccounts year end
3 Jun 2020directorDouglas Cunningham appointed Director
3 Jun 2020directorSteven Craig Guggenheimer appointed Director
20 Nov 2018directorDavid Austen Mulinder appointed Director
4 Dec 2017directorJeremy John Orr Barton appointed Director
31 Mar 2017directorJohn Maclaren Ogilvie Waddell appointed Director
31 Mar 2017directorPeter Proud appointed Director

Register facts, funding, grants and the latest news, each linked or sourced. The data file holds the register facts, funding and grants only.

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Record completeness 64 of 100; not yet held: website, turnover, news coverage, funding rounds.

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How it compares

Employees 6 on average: joint 358th of 4,779 software firms with filed accounts on ayeoh's record, largest first.
Incorporated 31 Mar 2017: 3,629th of 11,935 software firms, oldest first.
Employees 6 on average: joint 99th of 1,070 edinburgh software firms with filed accounts on ayeoh's record, largest first.
Incorporated 31 Mar 2017: 785th of 2,895 edinburgh software firms, oldest first.

Ranked by ayeoh from the accounts of every Scottish software firm whose filings it holds, as of 2026-11-05. Only figures the accounts tag; a rank, not a judgement.