# Assess freshness and consistency

URL: https://www.onsomble.ai/guide/applied/readiness-freshness

Published: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-14

Review freshness and consistency, gather evidence and score this component of your assessment.

Level: Intermediate · Reading time: 4 minutes

## What you'll learn

- Assess freshness and consistency using evidence and the five-point scale.


This component asks whether freshness and consistency supports an accurate, useful account of the business. Complete it for the offerings, locations and customer situations in your assessment scope.

## What to gather

List important facts that change: price, hours, season, location, availability and current offerings. Identify the pages and platforms where those facts appear.

## Carry out the review

Compare each fact with its current source. Record conflicts, expired offerings and missing updates. Find out who owns each source and what triggers a review.

[Open the related practical guide or exercise](/guide/ai-discoverability-foundations/website-platform-guides).

## Questions to answer

- **FC1** — Are current products, services and experiences accurately represented?
- **FC2** — Are expired offerings removed, redirected or clearly archived?
- **FC3** — Are prices, hours, availability, locations and contact details current?
- **FC4** — Do important facts agree across related website pages?
- **FC5** — Does structured data agree with visible information?
- **FC6** — Do important external platforms receive material updates?
- **FC7** — Is there a named owner for each important information source?
- **FC8** — Is there a defined review or expiry process for time-sensitive information?

## Choose your scores

Use a whole-number score for each question and record supporting evidence. The examples below show how the levels apply to this component.

| Score | What it looks like |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | Important published facts are outdated or contradictory and updates are unmanaged. |
| 2 | Corrections occur when someone spots a problem, leaving gaps between pages or platforms. |
| 3 | Important facts are current and consistent, supported by a repeatable update routine. |
| 4 | Each important source has an owner; expiry dates or review triggers prompt checks and corrections. |
| 5 | The team uses recurring discrepancies to improve how updates reach all relevant sources and checks whether those improvements reduce gaps. |

Start at 3 and check whether the important requirement is implemented and repeatable. Use the lower score if a material part of the higher level is missing. Use U for checks still outstanding and N/A only where the requirement does not apply.

## Record your result

In the [assessment workbook](/tools/ai-perception-assessment?workbook=Readiness), open **Readiness → Freshness and consistency**. For each question, retain the page or report, date checked, finding and next improvement. The workbook calculates the component average and shows evidence coverage.

Highlight questions scored 1 or 2 even when the average is higher. Give outstanding checks an owner. Return to [the information foundations overview](/guide/applied/assess-information-foundations) to continue the other components.


## Related guides

[Return to this learning path](https://www.onsomble.ai/guide/applied)