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# September 24, 2026

> Trust scores now count company age for KVK and CBE founding dates

## Company age now counts for Dutch and Belgian companies

KVK and CBE return a company's founding date without a time of day (`20180115`,
`2018-01-15`). The API could not compute an age from that format, so for most Dutch and
Belgian companies `registry.age_years` came back `null` and the age-based parts of the
trust score never applied.

From today they do:

* The registry component adds its age credit: +7 for a company registered more than 5
  years ago, +3 for more than 2, +1 for more than 1.
* Older verified EU companies can reach the `established_eu_enterprise` and
  `established_eu_sme` clusters.
* `correlations.registry_domain_age_consistency` is computed when both the registry age
  and the domain age are known.

<Warning>
  A fresh check of an older NL or BE company can now score higher than the same check did
  before this date. If you store trust scores or compare them over time, expect that step.
  Responses served from the result cache (`quality: "cached"`) keep the score of the
  fresh check they came from.
</Warning>