Methodology
How we reach each verdict
We bring nine official public databases into a single analysis, cross-reference them, and synthesise each company's history into its current state. Here's how, and where the limits are.
Official sources
Nine public databases, always cited
We always start from official public records: courts (CITIUS), the IMPIC register of construction licences and certificates, the commercial register, the tax and Social Security debtor lists, ACT labour sanctions, public contracts, and others. We don't invent data or give opinions about companies: we show what the official records say, with the date they were consulted.
What sets us apart
The work is in the cross-referencing
The information exists, but it's scattered across many places, in different formats, and almost nobody checks all of it before going ahead. Our value is what we built on top of these sources:
Nine databases linked
We link the nine sources by the company's NIF, so a signal in one base (a debt, a lawsuit) shows up next to all the others, in a single profile.
Director → company index
We built a director index from scratch that links each director to the companies they've passed through. That's what reveals the phoenix pattern: closing one company owing money and reappearing with another.
Chronological synthesis
Commercial register publications are an event log. We read them in order (incorporation, appointments, terminations, insolvency) to determine the company's current state, not just the last isolated entry.
Historical accumulation
We keep what the portals don't preserve. Many records only show a recent window; we accumulate the history over time so it isn't lost.
What we check
Over 20 checks, across 14 categories
Each analysis runs more than 20 cross-referenced checks: IMPIC licence and works class, court proceedings (insolvencies, enforcement, civil cases), tax and Social Security debts, account filings, ACT sanctions, directors and their cross-links. The result is a score from 0 to 100 and a clear verdict, with the sources behind every point.
The limits
What this analysis is not
We work only with public data and we're transparent about its limits. The civil courts (CITIUS) only expose a six-month window for recent case distributions, so civil history before that window can't be recovered by any aggregator. Some sources can be temporarily unavailable; when that happens, we mark the check as “not verified” instead of assuming it's clean. And this is a decision-support tool, not legal advice: we show the records, the decision to go ahead is yours.
Cited sources
The nine databases we consult
9 official databases
CITIUS
Court proceedings
IMPIC
Construction licenses
Commercial Registry
Company data
Publications MJ
Official publications, directors and shareholders
Tax Authority
Tax debts
Social Security
Contribution debts
ACT
Labor sanctions
197 Courts
Civil proceedings
Portal Base
Public contracts
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