Signals

A signal is evidence that a company’s situation has changed in a way that matters to you. It is what turns “this company fits our profile” into “this company needs us this month”, and it is what gives a first message something to say beyond an introduction.

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Hiring signals

Leadey’s signal engine watches job boards. A company posting roles is telling you, publicly and in detail, what it is building, what it is short of, and where it is spending. On the Search page’s Companies tab, the Hiring signal filters turn that into a query: how many matching roles a company must have posted, which roles (several patterns, with exclusions), how recently, and in which country. Where the role is posted is not where the company is — a US company hiring in London is a UK opportunity. Open a company and its current postings are listed with the rest of its profile. The newest one is usually the opening line. Save the search and it keeps: saved searches are shared with your team, and one that is watched re-runs on a schedule and flags what is new since anyone last looked. That is the difference between a list built once and a list that keeps arriving.

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Technology and intent

Separately from the hiring filters, you can look up what a specific company runs and what it appears to be evaluating. On the Search page, a company’s profile shows:

• Technologies — the tools it uses, each with a confidence level and how recently it was seen. Recency is what separates “they run this” from “they ran this two years ago”.
• Buying intents — technologies it appears to be assessing now.

This is a lookup rather than a feed: you ask about a company, you get an answer. It is most useful for qualifying an account you are already interested in, or for writing the line that proves you did your homework.

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Filtering on company attributes

The Search page also filters companies and people on attributes that behave like signals but are really facts about the business — funding rounds and amounts raised, headcount, revenue band, industry, technologies in use, and whether they are currently hiring for particular roles. Use these to build a list, and watch the saved search when you want the answer to keep arriving on its own.

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Why this matters more than the list

A company that matches your criteria is worth contacting eventually. A company that matches your criteria and has just posted three roles you solve for is worth contacting this week — and the posting is your opening line. That is the whole argument for signal-driven outreach over a static list: not better targeting, better timing, and a reason to be writing at all.

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Through the API

Signal-derived leads and their companies are readable today:

• GET /v1/leads
• GET /v1/companies

A dedicated signals endpoint is not available yet.