Signal Cat
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Hiring signals, straight from the ATS.

Job postings from employers' own career systems, not job boards, for 96% of the S&P 500 and 2,000+ listed companies worldwide. Point-in-time, ticker-mapped, and delivered to your Snowflake.

collection cycle · 06:00 UTC
  1. + NEWCOFSenior Data Scientist
  2. − REMOVEDABNBStaff Engineer, Payments
  3. + NEWDASHSenior Associate, CPG Co-Marketing
  4. + NEWADBEPrincipal Product Marketing Manager
  5. − REMOVEDTMUSRetail Store Manager
  6. + NEWPEPSupply Chain Planning Manager
  7. + NEWDDOGDirector, Major Accounts
Illustrative sample · not live datasignalcat.labor_market.events
2,000+ listed companies
96% S&P 500
2,000+ listed companies
80+ platforms, no job boards
ATS-direct
80+ platforms, no job boards
Never revised or backfilled
Point-in-time
Never revised or backfilled
On every row
Ticker + GICS
On every row

Collected directly from 80+ ATS, including

  • Workday
  • SuccessFactors
  • Phenom
  • Oracle Recruiting
  • iCIMS
  • SmartRecruiters
  • Greenhouse
  • Eightfold
  • BambooHR
  • TalentBrew

The mechanism

Cleaner inputs. Fewer artifacts in your backtest.

Most job-posting data is scraped from boards that re-syndicate other boards. We read the system that published the posting, then do the hard parts before it reaches you.

One posting, one record

Collected from the employer's own ATS, so the same role on five job boards and two reposts is still one row.

Point-in-time, never revised

Edits and removals are new observations with their own timestamps. Your backtest sees exactly what was knowable.

Ticker-mapped on arrival

Every employer carries a ticker, exchange, and GICS sector. Ambiguous matches get human review.

In your warehouse, not a portal

A live Snowflake share or Parquet files in your S3 bucket, refreshed every cycle. No ETL, no dashboard logins.

Ask it from your AI agent

An MCP server exposes coverage, postings, hiring velocity, peer comparisons, and universe screens to Claude and other agents, metered and scoped to your contract. Removals are de-noised, and new-posting counts exclude onboarding backfill.

Versus job-board feeds

Same question, different source.

The difference shows up in the places quant teams lose the most time: duplicates, stale listings, and history that quietly changes.

Job-board feeds
Signal Cat
Source
Job boards and re-syndicated feeds
The employer's own ATS
Refresh
Inherited from each board’s crawl
Daily or faster, up to 4× a day by source
Duplicates
Same role across boards and reposts
One record per posting
Removals
Stale listings linger
Timestamped as an observation
History
Revised or backfilled
Point-in-time, never revised
Identifiers
Company names to map yourself
Ticker, exchange, GICS sector

Coverage

The S&P 500, almost entirely.

Nearly every large-cap US employer, with Russell 2000 and international indexes growing weekly. Missing a company you need? Ask, and it goes into our discovery queue.

of the S&P 500 (480+ of 503)
96%
of the S&P 500 (480+ of 503)
Listed companies
2,000+
Listed companies
Global indexes tracked
10
Global indexes tracked
ATS platforms
80+
ATS platforms
S&P 500 coverage by GICS sector covered not yet
  • Industrials75 of 79 covered
  • Financials73 of 76 covered
  • Information Technology69 of 73 covered
  • Health Care59 of 59 covered
  • Consumer Discretionary45 of 48 covered
  • Consumer Staples34 of 35 covered
  • Utilities31 of 31 covered
  • Real Estate29 of 31 covered
  • Materials26 of 26 covered
  • Communication Services22 of 23 covered
  • Energy19 of 22 covered

Constituents with flowing postings · as of Sep 2026

Index constituents covered, as of Sep 2026
IndexCovered
S&P 500US96%482/503
S&P 400US92%369/400
NASDAQ-100US95%96/101
Dow 30US93%28/30
Russell 2000US62%1,224/1,961
EURO STOXX 50EU96%48/50
FTSE 100UK88%88/100
Nikkei 225JP73%165/225
TSX 60CA32%19/60
ASX 200AU30%59/200
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Applications

What funds build with it.

  1. 01

    NFP nowcasting

    Week-over-week posting velocity across sectors as an early read on the BLS report.

  2. 02

    Earnings previews

    Per-ticker openings and removals ahead of results to anticipate headcount moves.

  3. 03

    Sector rotation

    Cyclical vs. defensive posting growth to gauge where the cycle is heading.

  4. 04

    Labor tightness

    Removal velocity and time-to-fill as proxies headline counts miss.

Why we built it

The best investment signals come from data collected at the source, not from repackaged third-party feeds. So we built the pipeline we wanted to buy.

Steven Pisani, Founder

10+ years in production data systems, starting at SIG

  • Public sources only

    Derived exclusively from publicly available career pages. No MNPI.

  • DDQ ready

    Due Diligence Questionnaire available for compliance review.

  • Mutual NDA as standard

    All inquiry details treated as confidential.

Test it on your own stack.

A Snowflake share or sample files with the full schema and sample history.

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