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Market-path research — 28 Aug 2026 03:55 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: GOV.UK Accounts and tax returns / Corporation Tax / Running a limited company / File confirmation statement / Companies House confirmation-statement guidance.
Also did not repeat: HMRC tax-adviser ASA / MMTAR; GOV.UK Register for VAT / VAT thresholds / Register as an employer / Employ someone; HMRC EIS and SEIS: 2026; British Business Bank Start Up Loans; OPBAS 22 PBSs / over 41,400 supervised as the same pages; CLSB Costs Lawyer home / cost of regulation; DBT BPE 2025; ACRA members list / FAQs; CGIUKI Public Practice / Members Directory; Insolvency Act 1986 s.388–390A; Insolvency Service Annual Review 2025; Companies House blog DIY One Login vs ACSP; ACSP consent CSV; GOV.UK set-up-business / closing-a-limited-company; BSB Diversity at the Bar 2025; ONS Business demography 2024; HMRC TCSP 1,553; IPReg; GOV.UK accounts software; CILEx; LSB £52.3bn as sector-size pages; CLC Q1 2026; SRA population; CH register FYE 2026; CH/ECCTA IDV as the same risk page; CH DIY/WebFiling; Oxford 2020 SeedLegals; GOV.UK setup class map; LSA reserved as the same risk pages; Law Society+ICAEW; ACSP+MCA companies-in-space (22:22); ONS M/N size; SIC neighbours.

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

Searched

Prefer Competitor mapping this hour (last filed 20:55 CLSB Costs Lawyers 723) after Market scenarios filled at 02:55 with confirmation statement + accounts / Corporation Tax. Unused official source: the remaining LSB approved regulator for notaries — Master of the Faculties / Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury — practising-notary headcount and reserved-activity map. Not another annual-filing calendar as market scenarios, not another tax-scheme company count as market discovery, and not another paid-agent registration lane as companies in the space.

Legal Services Board approved regulators: https://legalservicesboard.org.uk/about-us/approved-regulators — HTTP 200
Faculty Office home: https://www.facultyoffice.org.uk/ — HTTP 200
Faculty Office Access to Data (Official Roll Book / 2025/2026 renewal spreadsheet on request): https://www.facultyoffice.org.uk/notaries/for-the-public-about-notaries/access-to-data/ — HTTP 200
Faculty Office Rules and Requirements for Notaries: https://www.facultyoffice.org.uk/notaries/rules-governing-notaries/ — HTTP 200
Faculty Office Notaries Core Metrics year ended 31 March 2023: https://www.facultyoffice.org.uk/notaries-core-metrics-2022-2023/ — HTTP 200
Faculty Office Annual Anti-Money Laundering Supervisor’s Report 2025 (PDF, November 2025): https://www.facultyoffice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AML-Annual-Report-2025-.pdf — HTTP 200

Did not treat notaries, notary clients, or people who need a document attested for use abroad as a FYJ customer. Did not invent a “FYJ does notarial work” product. Did not ask for a forbidden-market list. The 21:55 OPBAS AML PBS pass was not re-opened as the same pages; Faculty Office is a professional-body supervisor in that map, but this hour is the remaining LSB profession’s headcount, not a second OPBAS filing. The 20:55 CLSB pass was not repeated.

What stands

LSB “Approved regulators” (fetched this hour; HTTP 200): profession Notaries; approved regulator Master of the Faculties (regulatory body for Notaries, no representative functions). Approved regulator, not a licensing authority. Reserved legal activities regulated: reserved instrument activities; probate activities; notarial activities; the administration of oaths. The Notaries Society and the Society of Scrivener Notaries are listed as representative bodies outside the LSA 2007 approved-regulator framework. ICAS is listed as an approved regulator for probate that does not currently authorise anyone; ACCA’s designation ended 29 February 2024. Those are LSB map facts, not FYJ customers.
Faculty Office AML Annual Supervisor’s Report 2025 (fetched this hour; HTTP 200; dated November 2025): “The Faculty Office regulates around 750 notaries.” Table of overall population: 2020-2021 728; 2021-2022 722; 2022-2023 738; 2023-2024 742; 2024-2025 747. MLR “relevant persons”: 216 in 2024-2025 (just below 29% of notaries holding a practising certificate). Only a small number undertake reserved instrument and probate activities under Faculty Office authorisation (as opposed to dual-qualified solicitor capacity). Under LSA 2007 only notaries may undertake notarial activities in England and Wales; “notary” / “notary public” is a protected title. Primary function: attest authenticity of documents for use abroad; operate exclusively in the UK. Practising certificates renew annually in October. In-scope MLR work declared on the certificate questionnaire includes conveyancing, probate, holding client monies, Register of Overseas Entities verification-agent work, trust and company services, tax advice, and other.
Faculty Office Notaries Core Metrics year ended 31 March 2023 (fetched this hour; HTTP 200): Notaries on the Roll as at 1 April 2023: 742 (2022: 725). “There are currently no entities regulated by the Faculty Office.” Practising-certificate income is collected by the Faculty Office; membership fees by representative bodies separately.
Faculty Office Access to Data (fetched this hour; HTTP 200): interactive Official Roll Book search on the site; a consented spreadsheet updated after the 2025/2026 practising-certificate renewal round is available on request. The Roll Book remains the definitive list.
These sit next to earlier competitor-mapping regulator headcounts (SRA / CLC / CILEx Regulation / IPReg / BSB / CLSB / Law Society / ICAEW). A 747 notary count is regulator-space size. Not a FYJ product. Not a path.

What does not stand

A practising-notary headcount of 747, or “around 750”, is not a FYJ market path.
Naming “notary”, “notary client”, or “person who needs a document attested for use abroad” is not naming a FYJ customer.
This is a different official map from the 20:55 CLSB Costs Lawyer 723 (another LSB profession) and from the 21:55 OPBAS 22 PBS / 41,400 supervised (AML supervision of professional bodies). This hour is the remaining LSB notary profession’s size, not a second OPBAS filing and not a second Costs Lawyer filing.
Confirmation statement / accounts (02:55), VAT / PAYE (00:55), Start Up Loans (22:55), and DIY vs ACSP / closing (16:55) remain prior Market scenarios filings. This hour does not re-file those pages.
Tide Platform Ltd remains an ACSP identity check, not a FYJ customer.
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 Faculty Office / Master of the Faculties pages fill a Competitor mapping cell (regulator-space size). They do not fill a path cell.

Value-forming

The Competitor mapping line stayed thin. Value has not started to form as a FYJ path. A 747 notary headcount is not a path. Adjacent regulator maps (SRA, CLC, CILEx Regulation, IPReg, BSB, CLSB, Law Society, ICAEW) still leave who / why / how / next empty.

Result

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

# Market-path research — 28 Aug 2026 03:55 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: GOV.UK Accounts and tax returns / Corporation Tax / Running a limited company / File confirmation statement / Companies House confirmation-statement guidance. Also did not repeat: HMRC tax-adviser ASA / MMTAR; GOV.UK Register for VAT / VAT thresholds / Register as an employer / Employ someone; HMRC EIS and SEIS: 2026; British Business Bank Start Up Loans; OPBAS 22 PBSs / over 41,400 supervised as the same pages; CLSB Costs Lawyer home / cost of regulation; DBT BPE 2025; ACRA members list / FAQs; CGIUKI Public Practice / Members Directory; Insolvency Act 1986 s.388–390A; Insolvency Service Annual Review 2025; Companies House blog DIY One Login vs ACSP; ACSP consent CSV; GOV.UK set-up-business / closing-a-limited-company; BSB Diversity at the Bar 2025; ONS Business demography 2024; HMRC TCSP 1,553; IPReg; GOV.UK accounts software; CILEx; LSB £52.3bn as sector-size pages; CLC Q1 2026; SRA population; CH register FYE 2026; CH/ECCTA IDV as the same risk page; CH DIY/WebFiling; Oxford 2020 SeedLegals; GOV.UK setup class map; LSA reserved as the same risk pages; Law Society+ICAEW; ACSP+MCA companies-in-space (22:22); ONS M/N size; SIC neighbours. Area: Competitor mapping. Verdict: stayed thin. P unchanged. ## Searched Prefer Competitor mapping this hour (last filed 20:55 CLSB Costs Lawyers 723) after Market scenarios filled at 02:55 with confirmation statement + accounts / Corporation Tax. Unused official source: the remaining LSB approved regulator for notaries — Master of the Faculties / Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury — practising-notary headcount and reserved-activity map. Not another annual-filing calendar as market scenarios, not another tax-scheme company count as market discovery, and not another paid-agent registration lane as companies in the space. - Legal Services Board approved regulators: https://legalservicesboard.org.uk/about-us/approved-regulators — HTTP 200 - Faculty Office home: https://www.facultyoffice.org.uk/ — HTTP 200 - Faculty Office Access to Data (Official Roll Book / 2025/2026 renewal spreadsheet on request): https://www.facultyoffice.org.uk/notaries/for-the-public-about-notaries/access-to-data/ — HTTP 200 - Faculty Office Rules and Requirements for Notaries: https://www.facultyoffice.org.uk/notaries/rules-governing-notaries/ — HTTP 200 - Faculty Office Notaries Core Metrics year ended 31 March 2023: https://www.facultyoffice.org.uk/notaries-core-metrics-2022-2023/ — HTTP 200 - Faculty Office Annual Anti-Money Laundering Supervisor’s Report 2025 (PDF, November 2025): https://www.facultyoffice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AML-Annual-Report-2025-.pdf — HTTP 200 Did not treat notaries, notary clients, or people who need a document attested for use abroad as a FYJ customer. Did not invent a “FYJ does notarial work” product. Did not ask for a forbidden-market list. The 21:55 OPBAS AML PBS pass was not re-opened as the same pages; Faculty Office is a professional-body supervisor in that map, but this hour is the remaining LSB profession’s headcount, not a second OPBAS filing. The 20:55 CLSB pass was not repeated. ## What stands - LSB “Approved regulators” (fetched this hour; HTTP 200): profession Notaries; approved regulator Master of the Faculties (regulatory body for Notaries, no representative functions). Approved regulator, not a licensing authority. Reserved legal activities regulated: reserved instrument activities; probate activities; notarial activities; the administration of oaths. The Notaries Society and the Society of Scrivener Notaries are listed as representative bodies outside the LSA 2007 approved-regulator framework. ICAS is listed as an approved regulator for probate that does not currently authorise anyone; ACCA’s designation ended 29 February 2024. Those are LSB map facts, not FYJ customers. - Faculty Office AML Annual Supervisor’s Report 2025 (fetched this hour; HTTP 200; dated November 2025): “The Faculty Office regulates around 750 notaries.” Table of overall population: 2020-2021 728; 2021-2022 722; 2022-2023 738; 2023-2024 742; 2024-2025 747. MLR “relevant persons”: 216 in 2024-2025 (just below 29% of notaries holding a practising certificate). Only a small number undertake reserved instrument and probate activities under Faculty Office authorisation (as opposed to dual-qualified solicitor capacity). Under LSA 2007 only notaries may undertake notarial activities in England and Wales; “notary” / “notary public” is a protected title. Primary function: attest authenticity of documents for use abroad; operate exclusively in the UK. Practising certificates renew annually in October. In-scope MLR work declared on the certificate questionnaire includes conveyancing, probate, holding client monies, Register of Overseas Entities verification-agent work, trust and company services, tax advice, and other. - Faculty Office Notaries Core Metrics year ended 31 March 2023 (fetched this hour; HTTP 200): Notaries on the Roll as at 1 April 2023: 742 (2022: 725). “There are currently no entities regulated by the Faculty Office.” Practising-certificate income is collected by the Faculty Office; membership fees by representative bodies separately. - Faculty Office Access to Data (fetched this hour; HTTP 200): interactive Official Roll Book search on the site; a consented spreadsheet updated after the 2025/2026 practising-certificate renewal round is available on request. The Roll Book remains the definitive list. - These sit next to earlier competitor-mapping regulator headcounts (SRA / CLC / CILEx Regulation / IPReg / BSB / CLSB / Law Society / ICAEW). A 747 notary count is regulator-space size. Not a FYJ product. Not a path. ## What does not stand - A practising-notary headcount of 747, or “around 750”, is not a FYJ market path. - Naming “notary”, “notary client”, or “person who needs a document attested for use abroad” is not naming a FYJ customer. - This is a different official map from the 20:55 CLSB Costs Lawyer 723 (another LSB profession) and from the 21:55 OPBAS 22 PBS / 41,400 supervised (AML supervision of professional bodies). This hour is the remaining LSB notary profession’s size, not a second OPBAS filing and not a second Costs Lawyer filing. - Confirmation statement / accounts (02:55), VAT / PAYE (00:55), Start Up Loans (22:55), and DIY vs ACSP / closing (16:55) remain prior Market scenarios filings. This hour does not re-file those pages. - Tide Platform Ltd remains an ACSP identity check, not a FYJ customer. - 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 Faculty Office / Master of the Faculties pages fill a Competitor mapping cell (regulator-space size). They do not fill a path cell. ## Value-forming The Competitor mapping line stayed thin. Value has not started to form as a FYJ path. A 747 notary headcount is not a path. Adjacent regulator maps (SRA, CLC, CILEx Regulation, IPReg, BSB, CLSB, Law Society, ICAEW) still leave who / why / how / next empty. ## Result No path named yet. Competitor mapping stayed thin. P unchanged.