MARKET RESEARCH
Competitor Hiring Velocity Tracker
Scrapes each tracked competitor's careers page daily, computes open-role counts by department.
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerDaily schedule fires
- ActionScrape competitor careers pagesApify
- ActionAppend today's role counts to history tableCoda
- LogicCompare to last week, keep swings over threshold
- OutputPost hiring-velocity digest to SlackSlack
What it does
Watches your competitors' job boards on a daily cadence and turns raw posting counts into a leading indicator. It tallies open roles per department (Sales, Eng, Marketing, Ops), compares the totals to last week's snapshot, and flags meaningful swings so you learn about a sales-team buildout or an engineering freeze before it shows up in their press releases.
When to use it
Run this when you cover a defined competitive set and want hiring to be an always-on signal rather than a quarterly manual pull. It is ideal for competitive-intelligence and strategy teams who need to spot expansion, pivots, or quiet retrenchment early.
How it works
- 1A daily schedule fires the run.
- 2Apify scrapes the careers page of each competitor in your watchlist and returns structured job rows.
- 3The pipeline buckets roles by department and writes today's counts to a Coda table that holds the rolling history.
- 4A logic step compares each department against last week's snapshot and keeps only changes above a set percent threshold.
- 5If any spike or drop clears the bar, a Slack digest goes out naming the company, department, and direction of the shift.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect ApifyActors, scrapers, datasets.
- 2Connect CodaDocs, packs, automations.
- 3Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
- 4Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
- 5Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
- 6Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.
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