What is a job posting signal?

A job posting signal is anything a company writes in a job ad that shows it needs what you sell, such as a regulation, a project or a tool. TheirStack extracts these words from every job's title, description and URL and rolls them up to the company, so you can search companies by them.

How do I find companies whose job descriptions mention a specific keyword?

TheirStack lets you search the text of job descriptions for the words your buyers use and see the companies behind the matching jobs. In Job Search, use the job description filter for whole words or a regex, and add a recent posted date so you only see companies hiring for it now.

What is buying intent data from job postings?

Buying intent data from job postings is the set of non-technology topics a company mentions when it hires, such as regulations, strategic initiatives, physical equipment and events. TheirStack tracks more than 9.4k of these topics across 14 keyword types and rolls them up to each company, so you can filter Company Search by them.

What is the difference between buyer intent data and technographics?

Technographics show which tools a company uses, and buying intent from job posts shows which problems, regulations or projects it is hiring for. TheirStack reads both from the same job postings, so in Company Search you can combine them, for example companies hiring for SOC 2 work that also run AWS.

Can I get an alert when a new company starts mentioning my keyword?

Yes, TheirStack can alert you when a new company starts mentioning your keyword: save the search and turn on daily or weekly email alerts, or attach a webhook that fires the first time each company matches. Webhooks can push each new account to Slack, Google Sheets or your CRM through Zapier, Make or N8N.

Find buyers by what their job posts say they need

Find companies whose job descriptions name the problem, regulation, project or tool your product handles, and sell to them while they are hiring for it.

Who it's for: A B2B vendor, agency or consultancy whose buyer reveals a need in the text of a job ad.

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Stripe posted a role to run its SOC 2 audits · 3h agoCompliance or regulatory need
Shopify is hiring to move invoice matching off spreadsheets · 5h agoPain-keyword intent
Walmart mentions an ERP migration in a new posting · 1d agoCategory keyword

How finding buyers in their job posts works

TheirStack turns job posts into buying signals: it finds the companies whose posts name the problem, regulation or project your product handles, ranks them by how many matching jobs they have posted, and shows the sentence that named it so your first message opens with their need.

Find

Search job posts for your buyers' words

TheirStack searches every job description for the words you choose, or for one of the buying intent topics it already tags.

9.4k topics, from regulations to equipment
Your own keywords or a regex
Add the role that owns the problem

Job ads mentioning OSHA or PPE · last 30 days

CompanySignal

ToyotaEHS Manager · 2h agoEquipment or physical demand

HyundaiPlant Safety Lead · 9h agoEquipment or physical demand

ShellHSE Advisor · 1d agoEquipment or physical demand

Prioritise

Start with who is hiring hardest for it

TheirStack groups the matching jobs by company, so the companies with the most open roles come first.

Ranked by matching jobs
Filter by size, country and industry
Leave out recruiting agencies

Why nowPriority

Toyota6 safety roles at one plant · 2h agoHigh

HyundaiStaffing safety at a new plant · 9h agoHigh

ShellOne PPE posting · 1d agoMedium

Write

Open with the sentence they wrote

TheirStack links every match to its job post, so your message can quote the line that named the need.

Your PPE rolloutDraft

Toyota

Hi ,

Saw you're hiring an EHS Manager to lead the PPE rollout across two assembly plants.

We fit and supply PPE for plants that size, and can have both sites measured in a week. Worth a call before the new hire starts?

1 / 3 · Workplace safety

Specific scenarios

Find companies with problems your software solves
Find companies hiring people to do by hand the work your software automates, and show them the tool before the hire is made.
SignalsPain-keyword intent Role-based hiring
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Find companies hiring for regulatory work
Sell your compliance, GRC or legal-tech software to companies staffing up to meet a regulation such as EHS, OSHA or ADA, while that work is still being set up.
SignalsCompliance or regulatory need
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Find companies looking for an ERP or CRM
Sell your ERP or CRM, or its implementation, to companies whose job ads ask for one without naming a vendor, before they lock one in.
SignalsCategory keyword
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Find companies scaling their HR and benefits work
Sell your benefits, payroll or HR platform to companies whose job ads show them running health insurance, 401(k) and time off by hand.
SignalsCategory keyword
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Find companies doing deals
Sell your advisory, integration or due-diligence services to companies hiring for mergers-and-acquisitions roles, a sign they are actively doing deals.
SignalsStrategic initiative
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Find companies buying safety gear
Sell protective equipment, safety services or monitoring hardware to companies whose job ads mention PPE, EHS or site safety.
SignalsEquipment or physical demand Compliance or regulatory need
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Find companies investing in events
Sell your event software, booth services or event marketing to companies hiring event roles or naming trade shows in their job ads.
SignalsStrategic initiative Role-based hiring
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Find every company in your industry
Find the companies in one industry, such as hotels, universities or medical facilities, from the industry words in their job ads, and sell them your vertical software or service.
SignalsVertical or industry fit
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Find companies investing in sustainability
Sell your ESG reporting, carbon tracking or sustainability consulting to companies hiring for sustainability, carbon or climate-risk roles.
SignalsStrategic initiative Role-based hiring
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Find companies starting a cloud, data or digital-transformation programme
Sell your software or services to companies building internal teams around cloud, data or digital transformation, while the programme is still staffing up.
SignalsCategory keyword Strategic initiative
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Find the team that owns the metric your product moves
Reach companies whose job ads name the metric a role is measured on, such as commissions, NPS or customer satisfaction, and sell to the person who owns it.
SignalsMetric or outcome focus
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Find companies staffing up against a threat
Sell your security, fraud or risk software to companies hiring against threats such as malware, fraud or data breaches.
SignalsPain-keyword intent
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Find companies researching a disease or treatment
Sell your lab services, tools or data to pharma and biotech companies hiring around a specific disease, treatment or research programme, while it staffs up.
SignalsVertical or industry fit Strategic initiative Role-based hiring
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Find contractors and partners of a government agency
Find the companies working with a specific federal, state or international agency, from the agencies named in their job ads, and sell them what government work requires.
SignalsVertical or industry fit
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Learn how

Guide
Identifying companies with problems your software solves
Learn how to use job postings to discover companies actively hiring for tasks your software automates. Find your ideal customers by analyzing 260M job descriptions for specific pain points and manual processes.
Customer story
Qonto uses TheirStack to detect companies with high intents
Discover how Qonto collaborates with TheirStack to identify highly prospective companies that are actively recruiting to address challenges like expense reporting and bank reconciliation, which Qonto's solutions can adeptly resolve.

Find buyers by what their job posts say they need: integrations with AI assistants, automations and CRMs

TheirStack works with the AI assistants, automation tools and CRMs you already use: ask Claude or ChatGPT through the MCP server, send new matches to Clay, n8n, Make or Zapier by webhook, and create leads in Salesforce or HubSpot.

AI assistants
Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client to search jobs, companies and tech stacks through the TheirStack MCP server.
MCP server
https://api.theirstack.com/mcp
Read the MCP docs
Automations
TheirStack sends every new matching company by webhook as soon as it finds it, to your automation platform or through it into your CRM and sales tools.
Automation platforms
CRMs and sales tools
Run this use case from your own code
```
curl -X POST https://api.theirstack.com/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "job_description_pattern_or": ["SOC 2","ISO 27001"],
    "posted_at_max_age_days": 30
  }'
```
Read the API docs Read the webhooks docs