# Outbound Hiring Signals AI Agent Connect > Outbound Hiring Signals MCP pulls live commercial hiring data directly from public Greenhouse job boards. It identifies when companies are expanding their sales, marketing, or GTM teams, giving you a clear window to reach out before the competition. No API keys or scraping setups are required; just connect your AI client and start querying active hiring movement. ## Overview - **Category:** lead-generation - **Price:** Free - **Endpoint:** https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_ueHNYYzY5lt6SIxbBRYD4Gqyp4i6rYq0QivrbtEk/ai-agent-connect - **Tags:** hiring-signals, job-board, outbound, gtm, sales-trigger, prospect-research, greenhouse, timing ## Description You can stop guessing which companies are in a buying mood. This MCP turns public Greenhouse job boards into a queryable database for your agent. When a company starts hiring for sales, marketing, or leadership roles, they are actively investing in growth and are likely receptive to new vendors. You can use this to find the exact moment a company opens a new commercial motion. Instead of manual searching, your AI client can scan specific companies or search across a tracked set of major players for specific roles and locations. You can check if a company even has a public board before you waste time researching them. The data includes how many days ago a role was posted, allowing you to filter for the freshest, most urgent signals. It handles the heavy lifting of reading slugs and parsing job details, so you can focus on crafting the outreach. It even groups roles into families like GTM or engineering, giving you an instant read on a company's current commercial priority. ## Tools ### fresh_hiring Identifies companies posting commercial roles within a specific day window. It acts as your primary timing trigger for finding the warmest outbound targets. ### probe_board Checks if a company publishes a public job board using its slug or URL. It returns the official company name and careers link to ground your research. ### role_breakdown Groups open roles into families like sales, marketing, or engineering. This tells you if a company is currently in a growth or buying phase. ### find_hiring Scans a set of major companies for specific roles and locations. You can use it to find every remote sales engineer currently being hired. ### get_job_detail Retrieves the full description, department, and location for a specific role. This provides the context you need to personalize your outreach. ### list_board_jobs Lists every open position on a specific company's job board. It includes the location and how many days ago each role was posted. ### list_seed_boards Provides a list of major companies with confirmed public boards. Use this to quickly identify which targets are ready for deep probing. ## Prompt Examples **Prompt:** ``` Is Stripe hiring for sales right now? What is the freshest signal? ``` **Response:** ``` Stripe has 31 open commercial roles, including 14 in sales, 9 in marketing, and 8 in GTM/ops. The freshest signal is an Enterprise Account Executive role in New York, posted 3 days ago. ``` **Prompt:** ``` Which of the tracked major companies is hiring a sales engineer in remote? ``` **Response:** ``` I found 2 matches: Okta is hiring a Sales Engineer in EMEA (Remote, posted 5 days ago) and HubSpot is hiring a Senior Sales Engineer (Remote, posted 9 days ago). ``` **Prompt:** ``` I want to pitch Figma. Read their newest commercial opening and give me an angle. ``` **Response:** ``` Figma's newest role is Head of Sales, Enterprise, posted 2 days ago in San Francisco. Since they are hiring for a top-down leadership seat, they are likely scaling their enterprise motion. Focus your pitch on tools that reduce ramp time for new leadership. ``` ## Capabilities ### Hiring Timing Detection Your agent identifies roles posted within a specific window to find active growth signals. ### Commercial Mix Analysis The AI classifies roles into GTM, sales, or marketing families to gauge buying intent. ### Target Discovery You can search across multiple major company boards for specific keywords and locations. ### Deep Role Research Your client pulls full job descriptions to find specific pain points for personalization. ### Board Validation The MCP confirms if a company has a reachable public Greenhouse board before you start research. ## Use Cases ### Identifying Growth Triggers Find companies that just opened multiple sales roles to time your pitch perfectly. ### Remote Role Targeting Search for specific remote positions across major companies to find niche opportunities. ### Personalized Outreach Pull job descriptions to understand exactly what a new hire will be responsible for. ### Account Validation Verify if a target company uses a public Greenhouse board before adding them to a sequence. ## Benefits - Identifies active buying windows through commercial hiring trends. - Eliminates manual scraping and API management. - Provides specific personalization data from job descriptions. - Filters for the freshest signals to ensure outreach timing is accurate. ## How It Works Connect your AI client to Vinkius and start querying Greenhouse data immediately. 1. Connect your preferred MCP-compatible client to Vinkius. 2. Ask your agent to probe a company slug or search for specific roles. 3. The MCP pulls data from public Greenhouse endpoints. 4. Your agent receives structured hiring signals and job details to act on. ## Frequently Asked Questions **Do I need a Greenhouse account to use this?** No. This MCP accesses public job boards directly without requiring any accounts or API keys. **How fresh is the hiring data?** You can query for roles posted or updated within a window of 1 to 120 days to find the most recent movement. **Can I use this with Claude or Cursor?** Yes. This MCP works with any MCP-compatible client, including Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf. **What happens if a company doesn't have a public board?** The probe tool will report that the signal is unavailable, which distinguishes it from a company that is simply not hiring. **How does it categorize roles?** It uses title keywords to group roles into families like GTM, sales, marketing, engineering, and leadership. **Do I need an API key or an account?** No. The server reads the public job-board endpoint that companies expose on their own slug. There is no credential anywhere in the chain — nothing to issue, rotate or store. **Why are job listings a sales trigger?** Open commercial roles are public proof that a company is investing in its motion: hiring sales or marketing means budget, headcount and an expectation of growth. The tools return both the mix (how many sales/GTM/marketing roles are open at once) and the freshness (days since each posting went up), so you can rank targets by buying mood instead of guessing. **What happens when a company does not publish a board?** probe_board reports that no public board exists under the slug and says the hiring signal is unavailable for that company — which is a different fact from a quiet board. The scan tools count those boards as skipped, never as zero hiring, and the seed set (21 confirmed major boards) is a starting point: any company that publishes a board can be probed with its own slug. **How is the public source protected from repeated scans?** Each board's listing is cached for one hour, so repeating the same scan minutes apart costs nothing upstream. If the source rate-limits a request, the tools report the board as rate-limited and skipped instead of failing the whole call, and the agent is told to retry later.