How do I assess a company in one minute?

What you need

Steps

1. 1

   Search for the company

   Type the name into the search field at the top, or press ⌘K. Short names and typos are fine — the search runs across roughly 2.3 million active German companies.

2. 2

   Read the quick check

   Four questions with four answers sit at the very top: what the company does, who runs it, how large it is, how stable it is. The „what“ is the object of the company from the commercial register — its official self-description, falling back to the industry title.

3. 3

   Move on to industry and object

   One section further down sits the AI short profile: what the company actually does, derived from its website. No register contains that — the register entry says something like „mechanical engineering, in particular the manufacture and sale of automated machines“, while the short profile tells you whether to call.

4. 4

   Check the signals

   Four dimensions built from hard facts, each expandable and each with its reasoning. Not a credit score, but signals you can follow. A greyed-out dimension means no signals are on file for this company.

5. 5

   Skim the history

   The timeline shows changes of management, relocations and capital measures with dates. Four changes of managing director in two years is not a data point, it is a phone call.