A judgment is a receipt on a case whose shape was legible six months earlier if the right court was being watched. Any system that depends on the judgment date is reading through the wrong window.
A private lender or a family office running diligence on a counterparty currently subject to proceedings needs to distinguish the date of the judgment from the date the proceedings became readable. Proceedings become readable at issuance of the claim form or its equivalent, sometimes months earlier, and the interim filings describe the shape of the eventual outcome with an increasing precision that the final judgment merely confirms.
Watching a court properly requires knowing which court the counterparty is likely to be sued in and reading that court's docket on a schedule rather than waiting for a search hit at judgment. Commercial courts in the major common-law jurisdictions publish issued claims searchable by party, publish the schedule of hearings, and publish interim orders in a stream that is readable in real time. Insolvency filings are separate and often earlier still.
Include the commercial court docket in the standing monitor, indexed by the counterparty's name and known corporate roles. The difference between the claim date and the judgment date is often the difference between a manageable position and a stranded one.