Evidence reports explained

Senserity produces two kinds of output about a company, and they answer different questions.

An assessment answers "how risky is this company?". It runs over 720 automated checks across the nine risk categories, weights them according to your use case, and reduces the result to a risk score and an A–E grade.

Evidence answers "what does the record actually say?". It presents the underlying source data directly: the filed accounts, the officer register, the certification lists, the DNS and TLS scan results. There is no score, no grade, and no interpretation.

Both are available on screen and as PDFs. The five company evidence tabs on a company profile are the on-screen form; the five evidence reports are the same data as a shareable document.

Why evidence reports carry no grade

This is deliberate. A grade is a judgement, and a judgement is only as good as the model behind it. If you are going to rely on Senserity's assessment for a procurement decision, a credit limit, or an audit response, you need to be able to check the working.

Evidence reports exist so that you can. They show what was found and, for every entry, where it came from — the filing, the register, the scan. Nothing is summarised into a verdict, because summarising into a verdict is what the assessment reports already do.

They also do not offer remediation guidance. Senserity presents evidence and sources; deciding what to do about a missing DMARC record or a lapsed certification depends on your risk appetite, your contract, and your relationship with the supplier, none of which the platform can see.

The five evidence reports

Credit Report. Creditsafe credit rating and risk score, probability of default, recommended credit limit, days beyond terms measured against the industry benchmark, aged payment behaviour, county court judgements, insolvency events, and group and contact structure. Requires Starter or above.

Financial History Report. Up to five filed accounting periods in a single annual accounts table, grouped into profit and loss, balance sheet, and workforce figures. Each period records its filing type, audit status, and source format, and links through to the original filing. Includes financial performance and ratio trend charts.

People & Governance Report. Current and former officers with their Companies House identity verification status, persons with significant control including corporate PSCs and their natures of control, and a per-person screening matrix covering sanctions, disqualification, and adverse media.

Compliance & Legal Report. Certifications and accreditations, statutory disclosures such as modern slavery statements and gender pay gap reporting, ICO registration, and legal exposure including gazette notices, judgements, and insolvency events. Requires Self-Assessment or above.

Cyber Report. Email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), SSL/TLS and certificate posture, HTTP security headers, website and hosting configuration, domain and reputation checks, and certified posture including Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001. Requires Self-Assessment or above.

Evidence tabs and risk categories are not the same thing

Three of the evidence tabs share a name with a risk category, which can be confusing.

The Cyber category is a set of scored tests that contribute to the risk grade. The Cyber evidence tab is the raw scan output those tests were derived from. Likewise the Compliance and Legal categories are scored; the Compliance & Legal tab is the underlying certification and legal record.

A useful way to hold the distinction: the category tells you Senserity's opinion, the tab tells you the facts the opinion was formed from. They will normally agree, and where they appear not to, the tab shows you why — a certification that has expired, a scan that has not yet run, a filing that is not yet due.

Which to use

Use an assessment report when you need a decision or a recommendation: onboarding a new supplier, setting a credit limit, prioritising which of forty suppliers to review first, or presenting a risk position to a board.

Use an evidence report when you need the underlying record: responding to an audit request, evidencing that a specific check was performed on a specific date, disputing or verifying a finding, or handing a specialist colleague the detail in their own domain. A finance business partner usually wants the Financial History Report, not a supplier risk grade.

Many procurement files end up containing both: an assessment report for the recommendation, and one or more evidence reports as the supporting appendix.

Availability and cost

Financials and People & Governance evidence are available on every plan, including Free. Compliance & Legal and Cyber require Self-Assessment or above. Credit requires Starter or above, because it draws on commercially licensed Creditsafe data.

Evidence reports cost credits to generate on the same basis as assessment reports. Viewing the evidence tabs on screen does not cost credits.

Freshness

Evidence reports reflect the data held at the time of generation. Some sources are refreshed on a schedule and some are gathered on demand when a company is enriched, so a tab may show that a particular check has not yet run rather than showing a clear result. Absence of a scan is not the same as absence of a finding, and the tabs distinguish the two. See Data freshness and update schedules.

Last updated 19 July 2026.