Data freshness and update schedules
How often Senserity refreshes its data, which sources update on what cadence, and what triggers a refresh.
Senserity pulls data from over 27 sources, each with its own update cadence. Understanding when data refreshes helps you interpret risk scores with appropriate confidence and decide when to request a manual re-enrichment.
How Senserity refreshes data
Each company on your watchlist is re-enriched on a schedule. The default is monthly, and you can set individual companies to weekly or daily from the watchlist settings.
Re-enrichment does not blindly re-pull every data source each time. Senserity uses a freshness system that checks whether new data is likely to be available from each source since the last run. If nothing has changed at the source, the enrichment for that source is skipped. This saves processing time.
Source update cadences
Different data sources update at different speeds. Here is a general guide to what you can expect:
Daily updates. Companies House bulk data is refreshed daily. This covers company status changes, new officer appointments and resignations, new PSC registrations, newly filed documents, and changes to registered office addresses. If a company's status changes from Active to In Administration, Senserity will typically pick this up within 24 hours.
Near-real-time signals. London Gazette notices are monitored frequently. Because gazette notices often precede formal status changes at Companies House, they can surface problems before the daily bulk data update reflects them.
Weekly to monthly. Some sources update on a longer cycle. HSE enforcement data, Environment Agency records, and certain regulatory databases are updated periodically by the issuing authority. Senserity pulls new data as it becomes available, but a gap of days or weeks between an enforcement action and its appearance in the public record is normal.
Commercial and specialist sources. Creditsafe credit reports, adverse media screening, ISO certificate checks, Cyber Essentials lookups, and court judgement analysis are refreshed on your configured re-enrichment schedule rather than polled continuously. The data is as fresh as the last time the enrichment ran; you can force an immediate refresh if you need it sooner.
Accounts data. Company accounts are filed once a year. When new accounts are filed, Companies House makes them available within a few days. Between filings, the financial data in the profile reflects the most recent set of accounts, which may be up to 18 months old (nine-month filing deadline plus up to nine months since the previous year end). This is a structural limitation of the UK filing regime, not a Senserity limitation.
Staleness indicators
Senserity flags data that may be getting stale. Several tests include explicit freshness checks:
Adverse media staleness. If the last adverse media screening was more than 30 days ago, Senserity flags it as potentially stale. Beyond 180 days, it is flagged more strongly. This is particularly relevant for companies with prior adverse findings where the situation may be evolving.
Creditsafe report date. The Creditsafe enrichment records the date of the report. If the report is several months old and significant events may have occurred since, the staleness is noted.
Accounts recency. If a company's most recent filed accounts are more than 18 months old, this may indicate overdue filing and is flagged separately in the Compliance category.
Confirmation statement. If the confirmation statement is overdue, the company's registered information may not reflect the current reality.
When to trigger a manual refresh
Most of the time, the default re-enrichment schedule is sufficient. Manual re-enrichment is most useful in specific situations:
Before generating a PDF report. If you want the report to reflect the latest possible data, trigger a refresh first.
After a significant event. If you learn through other channels that a supplier is in difficulty, a manual re-enrichment can pull the latest data and update the risk score immediately rather than waiting for the next scheduled run.
Before a contract renewal or procurement decision. If the data underpinning a supplier's risk profile is more than a month old, a refresh ensures you are working with current information.
After investigating a stale alert. If Senserity has flagged data as stale and you want to bring it up to date, triggering a re-enrichment is the appropriate action.
Daily re-enrichment considerations
Daily re-enrichment is available but should be used selectively. Most data sources do not update more frequently than weekly, so daily runs often find nothing new. Daily monitoring is included at no credit cost on the tiers that offer it, but it is rarely necessary.
Daily scheduling is best reserved for companies you are actively monitoring due to a known or suspected issue, such as a pending court hearing, expected accounts filing, or an ongoing insolvency process.
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