The Newsletter

Every Wednesday we send a market intelligence newsletter that summarizes the week's hiring activity, salary movement, role-category shifts, geography, and featured companies. The same data that powers the /market dashboard, distilled into a scannable email. The most recent issue was sent on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.

The newsletter is free for everyone. There is no Pro edition — every subscriber gets the full issue with every section, every salary percentile, and every metro. All you need is an email address.

What's in every issue

Sections are numbered in the order they appear.

  1. TL;DR — an AI-generated factual digest of the week, one bullet per major dimension (6 bullets). The bullets are numbers-only — no editorializing, no marketing voice. If the model fails to return valid JSON, a deterministic fallback assembles bullets straight from the underlying data so the newsletter always ships.
  2. Rotating headline — the headline cycles through five dimensions on a fixed weekly schedule, so no single signal dominates the email week after week. The dimension for any given week is deterministic (ISO week number mod 5) and always surfaces a real mover, not a sticky leader:
    • volume_lede — total postings + remote ratio + top hiring metro
    • role_category_shift — Backend / Frontend / Full-stack / etc. with the largest week-over-week share movement
    • location_shift — metro with the largest WoW share movement against the second-place metro
    • experience_shift — seniority level (Junior / Mid / Senior / Staff / Principal / Lead) with the largest WoW % movement
    • salary_spread — role category with the largest WoW p90 salary movement, shown with the actual number.
  3. Role Category Mix — share split across Backend, Frontend, Full-stack, Mobile, Data, Infra, etc. with the largest mover called out, plus a salary table with p25 / p50 / p75 / p90 per role category in the same visual block.
  4. Tech Stack Snapshot — the top 12 stacks by prevalence (share of postings), with week-over-week delta annotated, plus a Co-occurrence panel showing the top 5skills that hire alongside a rotating anchor stack. The anchor rotates across the top 3 stacks weekly so the panel doesn't fixate on whichever stack happens to be most prevalent.
  5. Soft Skills — top non-tech skills by demand share (e.g. mentoring, communication, ownership).
  6. Experience Mix — distribution of postings across seniority levels, with median salary per level.
  7. Geo Pulse — top 10 hiring metros + remote / hybrid / onsite split, with median salary per metro.
  8. Hiring Intensity — 12-month chart of average tech jobs per hiring company.
  9. Market News — 5 curated weekly stories from the broader tech-hiring news cycle.
  10. Companies & Roles — up to 10 featured hiring companies with role lists. If you have saved searches, a Saved Search Briefings block summarizes matches for each one.
  11. Closing block — the data above is free; the closing block points at the Pro tools that act on your search (see below).

Pro tools (beyond the newsletter)

Everything in the newsletter is free. Pro is a separate $19/mo tier that sells the tools that act on your job search — not the data:

  • AI resume matching with tailored resume + cover letter (10/day)
  • AI chat over the live market data
  • 10 saved searches with daily email alerts
  • Application tracker — find → match → tailor → apply → offer
  • Interview prep generated for each role you track (10/day)

See /pricing for the full Pro tool list.

Sample issue

See the latest issue or browse the full archive.

Targeting the newsletter to a saved search

Instead of the global market view, you can scope the weekly newsletter to a specific filter set by enabling the Newsletter toggle on a saved search. The digest will report on the filtered slice — same sections, just narrowed to the roles, locations, or stacks you care about. See Saved Searches.

Troubleshooting

I didn't receive the newsletter

  • Check your spam/junk folder
  • Verify your email preferences in Settings
  • Make sure you're subscribed — the newsletter is opt-in
  • If you recently changed your email, confirm the new address first

The newsletter content looks empty

This can happen if market data wasn't refreshed before the newsletter was generated. It's rare and usually resolved by the next issue.

My newsletter looks different from a friend's

The rotating headline cycles weekly, so an issue you forwarded last week leads with a different dimension than this week's. Everyone receives the same full content — there is no free vs Pro version of the newsletter.