Data freshness (freshness score)

Data freshness has two components: the source's own delay (how fast the court or register publishes) and the information channel's delay (how fast the publication reaches the buyer). Official announcements under § 9 InsO are legally „public” the moment they appear on insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de — that is not the same as „seen by the buyer”.

Every source has its own realistic refresh interval: §9 InsO announcements can be synced hourly (median 15–60 minutes behind the official publication), commercial-register data typically on demand per case plus a weekly backfill, Bundesanzeiger annual accounts only monthly (the filings themselves are already 6–15 months old), owner-led sale-marketplace signals daily.

For buyers, a visible „as of” timestamp per case is more useful than a blanket „up to date” claim — it shows the exact moment of the last check and makes freshness verifiable rather than asserted. Whoever reaches the administrator first with a structured approach sits at the table while priorities are still open; a two-week-old data point is already negotiating against conversations already under way.