Signal Brief Weekly digest
Built for recruiters· US growth-stage · mixed sectors· Every signal cited

See who's hiring before the job posts hit.

Hiring spikes, executive moves, and funding events across private growth-stage US companies, tracked daily and explained with source-level evidence. Start your week with a ranked pipeline. Act mid-week when signals fire.

Every signal is traced back to a primary source, job postings, exec hires, filings, and announcements, cited line-by-line.

Not a job board. Not a database. Not scraped signals without context. A prioritized list of companies most likely to hire right now.

Used by recruiters to prioritize outreach, not just track companies. Limited early-access cohort, most readers use a work email so we can keep the cohort relevant.

Early-access cohort, expanding weekly. Private US growth-stage companies, seed through Series B, mixed sectors, with every hiring signal traced back to a primary source.
Early access · cohort disclosed to subscribers
This Monday's hiring intel SAMPLE
Hiring Exec moves Capital Product Partnerships
What do you recruit for? we re-rank live
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Company
Signal
Why now
Conf.

Instead of building lists from scratch, start with companies already showing hiring intent, ranked by signal strength.

Signal Brief tracks:
  • Sudden increases in job postings, role-level, team-level, geography-level
  • New executive hires, CRO, VP Sales, CTO, VP Eng, and direct reports
  • Funding and expansion events, rounds, acquisitions, office openings, new markets
Then filters and ranks them into a weekly pipeline you can act on immediately.
Not a job board. Not a database.
A prioritized list of companies most likely to hire right now.

Different recruiters care about different signals. We adjust what rises to the top based on what you're hiring for — the sample above is already re-rankable by chip.

If you recruit for GTM roles
  • Hiring spikes in sales, marketing, customer success
  • New CRO / VP Sales hires
  • Post-funding team buildouts
If you recruit for product & engineering
  • Product org expansion
  • New CTO / VP Eng changes
  • New product launches tied to hiring

Same underlying dataset. Different ranking depending on your focus. Re-rank this week's signals ↑

The $175 tier isn't a weekly PDF. It's near-real-time access to intelligence, anchored by a Monday ritual and available all week on the surface you already use.

01 · Weekly digestLive

Monday read

The ritual anchor. Web + PDF, 06:00 ET. Scannable list; deep-read two, act on one.

Mon 06:00 ET · web + PDF
02 · Targeted alertsLive

Between issues

Email alerts when a tracked signal fires mid-week. Hiring / capital / exec signals are continuous.

Email · cohort-scoped · continuous
03 · LLM accessBeta

From your AI assistant

Query Signal Brief from ChatGPT, Claude, or your AI assistant of choice. Intelligence meets the tool you already use.

Subscriber access · details on onboarding
04 · SlackRoadmap

Shared channels

Signal alerts in your team's Slack on the Firm plan. Shipping after LLM access stabilises.

Firm plan · roadmap
Honesty on warm-up: core hiring, capital and executive signals are continuous from day one. Some emerging signal types (custom jobs signals, extended PE-portfolio coverage) season over ~30 days. We don't promise real-time on everything; we protect it on the signals that matter to your profile.

Signals are ingredients. Intelligence is the product. A single interpretation layer reshapes the signal stream into intelligence calibrated to who is reading, delivered as a read, an alert, or a structured response to your AI assistant. Every claim cited line-by-line.

Signal shapes 31 tracked · categories shown · full library reserved
Temporal 4 signals
Rates of change, velocity shifts, acceleration, anomalies off rolling baselines.
hiring-velocity · req-burst · headcount-drift · page-diff-rate
Event 11 signals
Discrete occurrences, filings, announcements, executive moves, capital transactions.
capital-round · exec-depart · WARN-filed · product-launch
Structural 6 signals
Snapshots of the company's posture, org shape, function-mix, coverage gaps.
function-mix · org-layer-count · TA-capacity · geo-concentration
Composite 10 signals
Cross-signal patterns that fire only when two or more primitives line up in time.
sponsor-pressure · rebuild-signal · post-round-hire · silent-exit
Interpretation · for recruiters output calibrated to outreach & prioritization
Recruiter read
LLM-consumable
Agency · executive search · in-house TA
Companies ranked by the gap between outside signal and internal capacity to absorb it. Outreach angles pre-derived from the live signal context so you can act the same day the signal fires.
Hiring pressure · capacity-to-absorb delta
Exec moves with downstream hiring implications
Per-row outreach opener, primed by cited signals
Post-funding team-build forecasts by function

Every claim cited. Every output structured for both people and LLMs, the same intelligence reaches you where you work.

Every signal in Signal Brief traces back to a primary source. The pipeline pulls from the providers below, cross-references them against a proprietary PE-portfolio scraper, and deduplicates at the company + event level before a signal lands in the weekly issue. No LLM is in the causal path, summaries are written last, from structured rows.

News & jobs intelligencepress · releases · req feeds
Firmographics & headcountsize · geo · employee curves
Filings & contractsEDGAR · SAM.gov · WARN
Applicant tracking feedslive req inventory
PE & growth coverageproprietary portfolio scraper
Web-presence diffsdaily crawl · delta only
Weekly

Signal Brief · Weekly

$175 /month · annual billing avail.

  • Monday digest of ranked hiring signals, web + PDF
  • Targeted alerts between issues when signals fire
  • LLM access, query from ChatGPT, Claude, your AI
  • Re-ranked by what you recruit for, GTM, product & eng, exec, ops
  • Every signal cited to a primary source
  • Cancel anytime · no seat math
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Custom · 5+ seats, custom cohort

  • Define a custom target cohort (your portfolio or accounts)
  • Weekly issue scoped to your cohort only
  • Team delivery, Slack or shared workspace
  • Per-company deep pages (web demo access)
  • A short conversation with Josh before you sign up
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