Competitive Intelligence API · Market Intelligence Data

Competitor monitoring built on direct-from-source hiring data.

What your competitors won't tell you, they're
already announcing in their job postings.

Hirebase is the competitive intelligence and market intelligence data API for product, marketing, and strategy teams. Track competitor expansion, AI strategy, geographic moves, and product roadmap shifts across 300,000+ companies — pulled directly from career pages and ATS platforms, structured for analysis, available via a developer API.

Competitor Watchlist · Fintech

8 tracked · live
COMPANYTOP FUNCTION (30D)HIRING TREND (90D)NET 30D
M

Mercury

Fintech · 1,200+

Forward Deployed Eng

+47

R

Ramp

Fintech · 950+

Solutions Architect

+38

B

Brex

Fintech · 700+

Applied AI

+24

P

Plaid

Fintech · 800+

Enterprise Sales

+14

A

Adyen

Fintech · 4,000+

Compliance / Risk

-12

Indexed: Product Designer @ Airbnb
Indexed: Staff Eng @ Linear
Indexed: Head of Sales @ Ramp
Indexed: Backend Dev @ Stripe
Indexed: AI Researcher @ OpenAI
Indexed: Senior PM @ Notion
Indexed: DevOps Lead @ Datadog
Indexed: ML Engineer @ Anthropic

What your competitors won't tell you, they're already announcing in their job postings.

New Market Expansion

Hiring 10+ in Berlin

Tech Stack Shift

Migrating to Rust

Strategic Initiative

Building Enterprise AI

Millions of job data
Real-time

4.2M+

Active Listings

300K+

companies

50+

Fields Per Job

<2hr

Data Freshness

Why Hiring Data

Competitive intelligence built on direct-from-source hiring data.

Every competitor pivot, every new market, every product roadmap shift leaks first into job postings. By the time a strategic move hits TechCrunch, it's been encoded in their hiring patterns for months. Here's what to watch — and what each pattern means.

POST /v2/jobs/search

A product-led company is going upmarket.

Watch for a sustained surge in roles tagged 'Forward Deployed Engineer', 'Solutions Architect', 'Enterprise Account Executive', and 'Customer Success Manager — Enterprise'. When the function mix tilts from self-serve toward white-glove, the GTM motion is shifting.

Signal30 Forward Deployed roles opened in 60 days · Enterprise AE count doubles · CSM roles add Strategic Accounts qualifier
POST /v2/jobs/search

A competitor is expanding into your region.

Geocoded location data on every posting reveals new market entry months before the announcement. Watch for the first 'GM', 'Country Manager', or 'Head of Sales' role in a city, followed by an SE + AE wave 30-60 days later.

Signal30 Forward Deployed roles opened in 60 days · Enterprise AE count doubles · CSM roles add Strategic Accounts qualifier
POST /v2/jobs/search

A new product is being quietly built.

Function-tagged hiring spikes precede product launches by 6-12 months. A wave of 'Applied Researcher' or 'MLE - GPU infra' roles tells you where the AI roadmap is going. Compliance or risk hires signal a regulated-industry play. Hardware roles signal a new physical product.

Signal30 Forward Deployed roles opened in 60 days · Enterprise AE count doubles · CSM roles add Strategic Accounts qualifier
POST /v2/jobs/search

A competitor is winding down a bet.

Most competitive intelligence tools are built around new postings. Few track removals well. Hirebase's dedicated expired-jobs feed surfaces strategic retreat — function-specific role removals without backfill, dormant geographies, and quiet product wind-downs — weeks before public RIF disclosures or sunset announcements. The negative signal is often clearer than the positive one, and it's where most competitors miss.

Signal30 Forward Deployed roles opened in 60 days · Enterprise AE count doubles · CSM roles add Strategic Accounts qualifier
Built like a CI dashboard

A live competitive intelligence dashboard, not a static report.

Stop briefing leadership with quarterly Gartner reports and slide decks built last sprint. Hirebase data flows into your existing BI stack — Looker, Tableau, Hex, Metabase, custom internal tools — and updates as the market does.

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Live competitor watchlists.

Track 5, 50, or 500 competitors. Hiring velocity, function mix, and geographic moves update daily.

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Drop-in for any BI tool.

REST API and bulk exports plug into Looker, Tableau, Hex, Mode, Metabase, or your in-house dashboards.

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Email digests for stakeholders.

Schedule weekly competitive briefings that land in execs' inboxes auto-generated from the live dataset.

Spend Mgmt — Competitive Brief
Updated 20 min ago
Cat. headcount delta
+312
↑ 18% QoQ
Enterprise role share
34%
↑ 7pt QoQ
New geos entered
5
DACH · LATAM
Hiring velocity
+24%
vs. cat. avg
Competitor hiring index — 6 months
JanFebMarAprMayJun
Mercury
Ramp
Brex
Adyen
New role footprint — last 90 days
Top 5 cities by net opens
London
Berlin
Singapore
Mexico City
Tokyo
The Questions

The competitive intelligence questions
your CEO is asking.

Every competitive intelligence brief, every QBR, every board update opens with the same questions. Hirebase data answers them with structured evidence, not anecdote.

[01]
Is competitor X doubling down on enterprise, or pulling back
Filter their job postings by function (Enterprise AE, SE, FDE, Strategic CSM). Track 30–60–90-day net flow. Compare against their PLG-side roles.
Historical USD to EUR Exchange Rate
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[02]
Where are they expanding geographically?
Method: Group postings by city or country. Surface cities with first-time hiring or accelerating role counts. Cross-reference job functions to infer GTM vs delivery vs R&D footprint.
Average of the first economies
Noruega
Australia
Suiza
Países Bajos
Estados Unidos
[03]
What does their AI strategy actually look like?
Method: Filter for AI/ML roles by sub-discipline — Applied Research, MLE, GPU infra, Forward Deployed AI. Watch for emerging titles. Compare to your competitive set's AI/ML role mix.
Jobs by Industry
Distribution across 4.2M+ active listings
Technology
Healthcare
Manufacturing
[04]
Are they slowing down?
Method: Watch net role flow over time — opens minus removals tracked via the expired-jobs feed. A persistent negative trend often surfaces hiring freezes weeks before public disclosures.
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Built like a CI dashboard

A market intelligence API built for your data analyst will actually want to use.

Once your CI lead validates the workflow, hand the API to a data analyst or BI engineer. REST API, JSON in, JSON out. No black boxes. No analyst-firm retainers. Self-serve plans starting at free.

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Job Search API.

Filter postings across 50+ structured fields. The atomic unit for any custom CI dashboard.

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Company Search API.

Query 300,000+ enriched company profiles by industry, services, technology stack, and hiring activity.

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Insights API.

Pre-computed hiring rate, hiring velocity, function-mix, and geographic-flow signals. (See above.)

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Expired-jobs feed.

Daily delta of removed listings — the wedge for tracking strategic retreat and hiring freezes.

200 OK
142ms
# Pull 90d hiring trend for a competitor
curl -X POST "https://api.hirebase.org/v2/jobs/search" \\
-H "x-api-key: sk_live_..." \\
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \\
-d {
"company": "Mercury",
"posted_after": "2026-01-21",
"fields": ["title", "function", "location",
"first_seen", "last_seen"],
"limit": 1000
}
# Returns enriched, deduplicated postings
# Group by week x function in your notebook
# Response payload
{
"total": 847,
"jobs": [
{
"title": "Forward Deployed Engineer",
"function": "Engineering - FDE",
"location": "New York, NY",
"first_seen": "2026-04-02T14:31:08Z",
"last_seen": "2026-04-21T09:14:22Z"
}
"]"
}
Built For

Market intelligence forproduct, marketing, and strategy teams.

Competitive Intelligence Teams

Maintain a live competitor watchlist that updates daily. Replace ad-hoc Slack messages and 'I think they're hiring for X' with quantified evidence in every brief.

'Who's pivoting upmarket?'

Where are competitors expanding?

What's emerging in our category?

Product Marketing Managers

Launch positioning that stays current with the competitive landscape. Know which competitors are leaning into which messaging — through the people they hire to deliver it.

What new features are competitors building?

Which industries are they targeting now?

Where should our launch position?

Corporate Strategy

Bottoms-up market sizing and category mapping based on labor signals, not analyst-firm Excel models. Make the board memo land with evidence the room hasn't seen.

How big is this adjacent market really?

Who are the credible new entrants?

What's our competitive moat eroding into?

Category & Sales Leadership

Track which competitors are scaling sales orgs, in which segments, in which regions. Calibrate your own hiring plan against category-leading benchmarks.

Are we under-investing in mid-market?

Where's the sales-org capacity flowing?

What comp benchmarks should we plan against?

vs. Alternatives

Hirebase vs. Revelio Labs, Lightcast,
Aura, LinkUp, and Coresignal.

Workforce intelligence and labor data is a crowded category. Here's how Hirebase compares to the most-evaluated alternatives — and where each provider is actually best.

Revelio Labs / Aura
Labor market analytics
Lightcast (formerly Burning Glass)
Labor market analytics
LinkUp / Coresignal
Labor market analytics
Hirebase
Hirebase
Job posting CI API
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Primary data type
LinkedIn profile data, headcount, attrition
Aggregated labor market trends, taxonomies
Job postings — direct sourcing
Job postings — direct from career pages and ATS
02
Best for
People-flow analysis, attrition signals
Macro labor trends, skills taxonomies, public sector
Bulk historical job records, enterprise pricing
Live competitive intelligence for product / marketing / strategy
03
Removal tracking
Disconnected records sparse company data.
Disconnected records sparse company data.
Disconnected records sparse company data.
Rich, linked profiles tech stack, headcount, and more.
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Infrastructure
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Ready-to-use APIs and Search UI. Sub-50ms latency.
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Infrastructure
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Ready-to-use APIs and Search UI. Sub-50ms latency.
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Infrastructure
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Ready-to-use APIs and Search UI. Sub-50ms latency.
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Infrastructure
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Months of engineering to build search and filters.
Ready-to-use APIs and Search UI. Sub-50ms latency.
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