Weekly competitor hiring and tech stack signals in Notion

Every Monday at 8am, build me a competitive hiring intelligence brief on the companies we compete with. Run this on a weekly cron schedule.

My competitors are [list the competitor company names here] and their websites are [list the matching company domains here]. My sector is [name your industry]. Use those three lists everywhere below.

Start with the JobsPipe Search Job Postings operation, the live one and not the sandbox variant, filtered to those competitor companies and to postings from the trailing 7 days. JobsPipe job records carry a full description field, so wide result pages get large. Keep the result page size modest, ask for a small limit rather than one huge page, and page through using the next cursor returned in the response metadata, stopping when that cursor comes back empty.

Validate the competitor filter values before you trust a zero. In JobsPipe an unrecognized filter value is not an error, it simply matches nothing and returns zero jobs. That means a competitor with no results might be a company name that failed to match rather than a company that stopped hiring. Confirm the name resolves first, then report genuine zeros explicitly. A competitor with no new postings is itself a signal, because a hiring freeze tells us something, so give it its own line in the brief. Never silently drop a competitor from the report.

For each competitor domain, run JobsPipe Scan Domain Technology Stack. These scans are cached for about 14 days, which fits a weekly cadence well. Compare what you find against the stack recorded for that same competitor in earlier briefs, so you can call out technologies that have newly appeared and technologies that have dropped out.

Then pull JobsPipe Get Trending Skills For Industry for my sector and treat those results as the market baseline to measure each competitor against.

Now reason over the raw postings instead of just listing them. For each competitor, work out which teams they are scaling and how fast, what new products, customer segments or geographies the roles imply, which technologies have entered or left their stack, and where their hiring diverges from the industry trend. Treat divergence as the most valuable finding: a competitor hiring hard against a skill the wider market is dropping matters far more than a headcount total. Quote specific job titles as evidence for every claim you make, and say plainly when the evidence is thin rather than overreaching from one posting.

Publish the finished brief as a new page in my Competitive Intelligence database using the Notion Create a Page operation. Title the page with the date range it covers. Lead with the divergences and the hiring freezes, then give a short section per competitor underneath.

Finally, post a three line headline summary to Slack with the Send a Message operation, in [name your Slack channel]. Exactly three lines: the single most significant move any competitor made, the clearest divergence from the industry trend, and any competitor that has gone quiet. Include a link to the Notion page so the team can read the detail.