Change date and checked date
also: event date vs observed date, first seen date
The change date is when something happened at a company, when it is known. The checked date is when the proof was read. A finding you can rely on carries both, separately.
Every finding about a company has two dates that are easy to blur. The change date is when the thing happened: the day a job was posted, a filing was made, or a contract was awarded. The checked date is the day someone actually read the proof.
They differ more often than people expect. A job post found today may have gone up three weeks ago. A filing dated last month may only now have been noticed. Treating the checked date as the change date makes stale news look fresh, and a time frame counted from the wrong day is wrong by the same amount.
Some changes have no reliable change date at all, such as a page on a company website that was edited at some point before it was read. The honest answer then is to show only the checked date and say the change date is unknown, not to guess one.
How Intakra treats it
Intakra keeps both dates on every finding, separately: the date of the change when the source states it, and the date Intakra checked the evidence, with a link to where it was found.
Updated November 12, 2026