Data sources: licence, publisher and frequency
Reachable cites the source and date of every data point. This page lists, straight from our database, each active source: publisher, licence, collection frequency and last successful collection. French open data is imported nationwide; a paid source is only queried for the rows you track.
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Where does Reachable's data come from?
From three families of sources: official French open data, providers under contract, and Reachable's own collection from company websites.
- Open data: SIRENE (INSEE company registry), BODACC legal notices and BOAMP tenders (DILA), public contracts (DECP), RGE, Qualiopi and organic label lists, INSEE and La Poste reference data.
- Providers: Google Maps listings and Google search (through DataForSEO), PageSpeed Insights, the Claude model for AI steps.
- Reachable collection: reading the company's website and matching it to its SIREN, described in the SIREN matching methodology.
Which licence applies to the data?
Public open data is reused under Etalab's Open Licence or its publisher's own licence, shown row by row in the table.
Every data point returned by the API or the MCP server carries its source and update date. For a provider, its terms of use apply; a licence the publisher does not state is shown as such, never guessed.
How often is the data updated?
Daily for BODACC, BOAMP, public contracts and labels; monthly for the SIRENE stock, completed by its daily updates.
The frequency in the table is read from each collection's actual schedule. Label lists keep no history, so Reachable captures them every day to date when a label is obtained or lost. An “on demand” source is only queried when one of your lists asks for it.
How long between official publication and Reachable?
At most one collection, usually one day for daily sources; the “last successful collection” column shows the real freshness.
We have not yet measured this delay end to end, source by source: it will be published here once measured. A failed collection does not update the date, so the table never shows freshness that does not exist.
Does Reachable pay for data nobody asked for?
No: free open data is imported for the whole of France; anything that costs money is only checked for rows a customer tracks.
Paid checks are billed per run, at the price shown on the pricing page. The data you import (CSV, API) is yours: it does not appear in this table.
What are the limits of these sources?
A source only tells what it publishes: a company with partial SIRENE disclosure, or missing from a label list, does not show up there.
- Partial SIRENE disclosure: some sole traders publish neither their name nor their address.
- Annual accounts (INPI) and the RNE registry are not collected yet: they are not in the table.
- Each publisher's own publication delay (BODACC, INSEE) adds to our collection delay.
- Decision-makers' contact details are not among Reachable's sources.