The Hiring Intent Agent
Monitors a list of target companies for new job postings, uses AI to identify strategic hiring signals (e.g., "building a new sales team"), logs all findings, and sends real-time Slack alerts for high-priority events.
This automated agent acts as a tireless analyst, helping you stay ahead of market trends and identify timely opportunities. Here's how it works:
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Simple Setup: The agent connects to a Google Sheet you provide, which contains three key tabs:
Accounts: A list of the companies you want to monitor.Signals: A set of rules you define to tell the agent what to look for (e.g., "Hiring multiple senior engineers," "Hiring first marketing manager").Log: An empty sheet where the agent will record its findings.
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Automated Research: For each company in your
Accountslist, the agent automatically searches the web for current job openings. -
AI-Powered Analysis: This is where the magic happens. The agent uses an advanced AI model to read and understand the job postings it finds. It compares them against your
Signaldefinitions, using judgment to determine if a company's hiring activity matches a strategic pattern you care about. -
Intelligent Logging & Deduplication: When a new hiring signal is confirmed, the agent records the details—including a summary and a source link—in the
Logtab of your Google Sheet. To prevent alert fatigue, it automatically ignores any signal it has already logged for the same company in the last 30 days. -
Real-Time Alerts: If a newly discovered signal is marked as "HIGH" priority in your
Signalssheet, the agent instantly sends a formatted notification to your specified Slack channel, ensuring your team can act on critical intelligence right away.
At the end of each run, the agent provides a summary of its activities, including how many companies were processed, how many new signals were found, and how many alerts were sent.
Usage Ideas
- Sales Teams: Identify perfect moments to engage with prospects, such as when they are building a new team that would need your product or service.
- Recruiting Agencies: Automate lead generation by getting alerts when target companies are hiring for roles you specialize in placing.
- Venture Capitalists: Track the growth and strategic direction of portfolio companies or identify fast-growing investment targets based on their hiring velocity.
- Job Seekers: Monitor a list of dream companies and get notified when they post jobs that match your career goals, especially for new or expanding teams.
- Market Researchers: Gather data on industry trends by analyzing the types of roles being hired for across a sector.
Customization Ideas
This template is a powerful starting point, but you can easily adapt it to your specific needs. You have the flexibility to:
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Define Your Own Signals: You have complete control over what hiring patterns to look for. Simply add or edit rows in the "Signals" tab of your Google Sheet to track anything from "hiring a new C-level executive" to "building a new data science team."
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Customize AI Behavior: You can guide the AI's judgment by modifying the core instructions it uses to analyze job postings. This allows you to fine-tune its sensitivity and what it considers a valid match for your signals.
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Tailor Your Alerts: Change the format of the Slack notification messages to include the information that's most important to you. You can also decide which priority level (e.g., HIGH, MEDIUM) is important enough to trigger an alert.
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Use Your Own Data Structure: If your Google Sheet uses different names for the required tabs (
Accounts,Signals,Log) or for the columns within them, you can instruct the agent to adapt to your existing format. -
Adjust the Timing: Change how far back the agent looks to avoid sending duplicate alerts (the default is 30 days). A shorter window might be better for fast-moving industries, while a longer one can be useful for tracking long-term trends.
Notes
You can use this Google Sheet template for this automation:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dysM96tC68XiBfJWhL2D48BQ69pbHZhj-8QyXX_r2mU/copy
Agent Inputs
Required Parameters
Name | Type | Default |
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googleSheetUrl | string | None |
URL to the Google Sheet containing company data (Accounts tab), signal definitions (Signals tab), and log entries (Log tab) | ||
slackChannel | string | None |
Slack channel where HIGH priority hiring signals will be sent (with or without # prefix) | ||
Optional Parameters
Name | Type | Default |
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maxCompaniesPerRun | number | -1 |
Maximum number of companies to process per run. Set to -1 to process all companies. | ||
