Market-path research — 27 Aug 2026 10:55 Europe/London

# Market-path research — 27 Aug 2026 10:55 Europe/London

Not a P move. No path named. No customer named.
Did not re-read Companies House company 16892858.
Did not repeat last hour: LSB State of Legal Services 2026 PDF (UK legal-activities revenue £52.3bn in 2024; £38bn contribution; landing page titled 2025).
Also did not repeat: 09:07 CLC Key Indicators Q1 2026 (2,064 individuals, 202 practices); 06:55 SRA solicitor population/firm offices; 04:55 CH register FYE 2026 stats; 03:55 CH/ECCTA IDV; 02:55 CH DIY/WebFiling; 01:55 Oxford 2020 SeedLegals/LinkedIn; 00:55 GOV.UK setup pages; 23:55 LSA reserved activities; 22:55 Law Society+ICAEW; 22:22 ACSP+MCA; 21:55 ONS M/N size; 20:55 SIC neighbours.

Area: Competitor mapping.
Verdict: stayed thin.
P unchanged.

## Searched
One new public source class: CILEx Regulation (CRL) authorised-person / practice-rights headcounts. Different from the 09:07 CLC Key Indicators, the 06:55 SRA solicitor population, and the 22:55 Law Society / ICAEW consumer directories. Prefer not Market discovery this hour because LSB filled that cell at 09:55.

- CILEx Regulation 2026 Practising Certificate Fee Consultation PDF: https://cilexregulation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PCF-Consultation-2026.pdf — HTTP 200
- CRL Annual Report 2025 publication: https://cilexregulation.org.uk/2026/07/31/crl-annual-report-2025-publication/ — HTTP 200
- CRL 1000 Litigation Practice Rights authorisations: https://cilexregulation.org.uk/2026/05/20/1000-litigation-practice-rights-authorisations/ — HTTP 200
- CILEx Regulation home: https://cilexregulation.org.uk/ — HTTP 200

Did not open IPReg, HMRC TCSP, ONS business demography, or formation-agent software this hour. Did not invent firm names as FYJ customers.

## What stands
- PCF Consultation 2026 PDF, para 8: as at 31 March 2025, approximately 17,000 CILEX Members of which 7,810 are qualified as Authorised Persons who pay the annual PCF in order to practise. HTTP 200.
- Same PDF, paras 11 and 20: all of the 7,810 Authorised Persons may operate as Commissioner of Oaths; 425 CILEX Fellows / Practice Rights holders hold an additional or multiple Practice Right (as at 31 March 2025).
- CRL news 20 May 2026: since the original Mazur Judgment in September 2025, over 1,000 Chartered Legal Executives have successfully obtained litigation practice rights. HTTP 200.
- CRL Annual Report 2025 publication (29 Jul 2026): by mid-2026, nearly 1,200 Chartered Legal Executives had secured authorisation (litigation practice rights). HTTP 200.
- Proposed 2026 PCF for CILEX Fellows: £403 (from £387). Context only; not a path.

## What does not stand
- An authorised-person headcount, or a practice-rights authorisation count, is not a FYJ market path.
- 7,810, or ~17,000, or 1,000+ litigation practice rights, is not who FYJ sells to, why they would pay, how FYJ reaches them, or what sits next.
- This is regulator-space size next to earlier SRA / CLC / Law Society / ICAEW maps. Still a size map. Still not a path.
- This hour does not invent a “we sell to CILEX lawyers” offer.
- No candidate this hour has even a partial who / why / how. End-to-end stays missing.

## End-to-end test
- Who it is for: missing.
- Why they would pay: missing.
- How FYJ reaches them: missing.
- What sits next: missing.
No real public fact this hour filled any of the four. Do not invent the rest. The CILEx Regulation authorised-person figures fill a Competitor mapping cell as regulator-space size. They do not fill a path cell.

## Value-forming
Competitor mapping now has a fourth filed public source: CILEx Regulation authorised persons / litigation practice rights next to CLC Key Indicators, SRA solicitor population, and Law Society / ICAEW directories. Value has not started to form as a FYJ path. Headcounts are not who / why / how / next. Verdict stayed thin.

## Result
No path named yet. Competitor mapping stayed thin. P unchanged.