Know the moment your market moves.
Companies announce strategy in press releases — months after they reveal it in hiring. Inkling watches every company you compete with and turns who's joining, who's leaving, and where talent is flowing into one weekly briefing your leadership team reads.
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Every company in your competitive set, and the people inside them.
Joined, left, promoted, opened to work, plus hiring velocity and talent flow.
A forwardable weekly Market Briefing, to your inbox and Slack.
Built for the teams whose advantage is knowing first
Before the launch, the hires.
Before the pivot, the exits.
Every strategic move a company makes shows up in its people first. A hiring spree in one function is a roadmap. A quiet exodus is a warning. Talent flowing between rivals is the scoreboard. Inkling reads those signals across your market — and writes you the brief.
Ramp rebuilds engineering, bleeds go-to-market seniors
Ramp is rebuilding engineering leadership after Sarah Chen's exit to Stripe — two senior platform engineers and an engineering manager joined inside six weeks, keeping engineering the dominant function at 212 headcount. Dana Kobayashi's exit (VP Sales) and Jamie Singh's quiet flip to open-to-work point to go-to-market retention pressure even as the technical build accelerates.
A company brief as it renders in Inkling — sample data · rewritten automatically when the signal changes · included on Pro
Three moving parts. One weekly briefing.
Name the companies you compete with. We watch every person inside them. You read one briefing a week.
Track your competitive set
Add a competitor by name or domain and Inkling imports its whole employee roster automatically. Or paste the specific people you want to watch, up to fifty at a time.
- ✓ Companies and individuals
- ✓ Auto-imports the employee roster
- ✓ Re-import any time with one click
We watch every move that matters
A weekly snapshot of every tracked profile, read for what changed. Who joined, who left, who got promoted, who quietly opened to work, plus hiring velocity and talent flow between the players.
- ✓ Hires, departures, promotions
- ✓ Hiring velocity & attrition trend
- ✓ Talent flowing between rivals
Get the weekly Market Briefing
One forwardable email: the week's moves across your market, grouped and ranked. The biggest events don't wait for the briefing — they hit your inbox the day we catch them.
- ✓ Forwardable briefing, inbox & Slack
- ✓ Immediate alerts for the big moves
- ✓ One-click unsubscribe, always
Read where they're investing, before they announce it.
Hand Inkling a company name or domain. We import its employee roster, classify it by seniority and function, and watch it weekly, so you can read a rival's org shape, spot every senior hire, and catch departures the week they happen.
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The whole roster, auto-importedOne action imports the team and starts watching — no CSV exports, no browser extension, no copy-paste.
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Org shape at a glanceSeniority and department classification turns a flat roster into a map: who's senior, who's new, which function they're investing in.
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Market pulse: hiring vs. attritionA 90-day trend of hires against departures shows whether a competitor is scaling, stalling, or quietly bleeding talent.
The departure you'd have missed.
When someone leaves a company you track, Inkling surfaces it the week it happens, most senior first. A quiet exit at a rival never slips past you again.
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Promotions, departures, and the moment someone opens to work.
Our change engine doesn't just diff text. It distinguishes a real promotion from a lateral move, flags a departure the week it happens, and catches the quiet status flip from happily employed to open to work.
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Promotion detectionSeniority and title heuristics separate real promotions from sideways reorgs.
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Major moves never get buriedUrgent signals get flagged so they don't drown in headline tweaks or photo swaps.
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Fifteen change types, one readJoined, left, promoted, opened to work, plus headline, summary, skills, certifications, location and more.
Built to forward, not to log into.
Every move across your market, in one email on the morning you choose: grouped into departures, new roles, and profile activity, ranked by what matters. Forward it straight up the chain, or post it to Slack. The big moves still trigger an immediate alert the same day.
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Forwardable by designA clean weekly read built to drop into a board update or forward to your team, not another dashboard someone has to remember to open.
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Inbox and SlackLands in email, and posts to a Slack channel your team already watches.
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Immediate alerts for the big movesA senior departure or a rival's key hire re-shapes the week. That's worth an email the day we catch it. Everything else waits for the briefing.
Every email is one-click unsubscribe, no login wall.
Every change we detect, in one glance.
From the obvious moves to the subtle tells nobody else catches — each one read from the public professional profiles of the people and companies you track. Every badge maps to a real change type in your feed.
Major events (joined, left, promoted, opened to work) trigger immediate alerts. The rest batch weekly.
Built for the company watching its category.
In a crowded category, a quiet senior exit or a surprise key hire can reshape your quarter. Inkling is the weekly read your leadership team runs on.
Founders, CEOs, and the strategy, product, and talent leads who report to them.
“Who is our biggest rival hiring? Who just left them? Where is our category's talent flowing? Are our own best people showing open-to-work?” That's a board-level question every single week. Inkling turns it into a briefing instead of a research project.
- ✓ Watch every company in your category
- ✓ Hiring velocity & attrition trend
- ✓ Talent flow between the players
- ✓ Early warning on your own flight risks
Also for the operators who watch a narrower slice
Founders
Watch competitors and the people you'd hire, or lose.
For founders →Investors
Track portfolio leadership. A departure pre-raise is the tell.
For investors →Recruiters
Pipelines that update themselves. Open-to-work, first.
For recruiters →Sales teams
Re-time outbound around the moves that matter. No CRM required.
For sales teams →The questions everyone asks first.
Straight answers on how Inkling works, what's fair game, and what it costs.
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Start watching your market today.
Try any plan free for 14 days. Add your first company in under a minute. We'll surface what changes. You decide what matters.
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