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section 03 — hiring

Hiring radar

The clearest public signal of where a company is heading: the roles it's posting right now, what it's building, and where headcount is quietly growing.

Open roles pulled from the job boards, what they're hiring for, and where headcount is quietly growing. It's one of the nine sections in every dossier, and below is exactly what this one does — what it surfaces, where those facts come from, and who leans on it.

What this section reveals

Concretely, the hiring radar section gathers:

  • Open roles pulled from the job boards, grouped by function so you can see where the company is staffing up.
  • What the postings imply about priorities — a wave of sales hires, a new platform team, a first compliance role.
  • Locations and remote policy revealed by where the jobs are based.
  • Seniority mix, which hints at whether they're building a layer or back-filling one.
  • Tooling and stack mentions buried in job descriptions — often the earliest signal of a new direction.

None of it requires the company's cooperation — it's all there in the open record, just scattered until the dossier pulls it into one place. You can see it rendered on a real business in the sample dossier.

How it's sourced

Hiring data is gathered straight from public job boards and the company's own careers page — postings a business publishes precisely so the world will read them. The dossier de-duplicates the same role listed in several places, normalizes titles, and dates each posting so you can tell a fresh push from a stale evergreen ad. Because boards lag and cache, listings carry a recency note and link back to the original posting; volume and trend matter more than any single role, so the section leans on the pattern across postings rather than over-reading one ambiguous title.

Who relies on it

This section earns its keep for anyone whose work turns on it:

  • Recruiters — time outreach to the moment a team is staffing up.
  • Sales & BD — spot budget and new initiatives before they're announced.
  • Investors — read growth and direction from where headcount is moving.

See how the whole file fits together on how it works, browse the other eight sections, or open a dossier and read this section on a company that matters to you.

the fine print

Two quick questions

Q. Where do the job listings come from?

Public job boards and the company's own careers page — postings published for the world to read. The dossier de-duplicates, normalizes titles and dates each one, with a link back to the original.

Q. How do you know a posting is still open?

Each listing carries a recency note and links to the source so you can confirm it's live. Boards lag and cache, so the section weighs the overall trend more than any single role.

Open me

Read where they're going.

the jobs they post tell you first.