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The hiring record doesn't lie.

Data reports on what companies are actually adopting, replacing, and building — measured from millions of public job postings, not surveys. A static stack tells you where a company was. Direction of change tells you where it's going.

Report 04·July 2026

Who's Hiring Heads of AI

1,142 companies currently have an open req for someone to own AI — a role that barely existed in hiring a year ago. The moment the org chart gets an AI box is the moment AI gets a budget. We read every posting.

1,142companies hiring AI leadership×3growth in nine months69%of them aren't tech companies Read the report →
Report 03·July 2026

The Displacement Index

Every quarter, thousands of job postings quietly announce which technologies companies are walking away from. We read 4.7 million active postings, verified the direction of every signal against raw text, and ranked the 19 technologies enterprises are actively ripping out right now — and where they're going instead.

19technologies with verified exits479companies actively leaving one1 in 1,000postings is a rip-and-replace req Read the report →
Report 02·July 2026

The Great SAP Migration, Measured

SAP ends mainstream maintenance for ECC in 2027, and Gartner estimates 70% of customers haven't migrated. We read 4.7 million active job postings to find out who is actually moving: 582 companies are hiring their way off legacy SAP right now — and the hiring curve shows no deadline panic at all.

582companies migrating right now280still on ECC — no exit signal171 vs 113Germany vs US migrators Read the report →
Report 01·July 2026

Who's Actually Building with AI in 2026

We analyzed 4.7 million active job postings across 762,000 companies. 1,273 of them are hiring to build AI systems right now — and the most interesting adoption is happening outside the tech industry.

1,273companies building now2.2×signal growth since Sep '2551%of RAG adopters are non-tech Read the report →
Report 05 · In production

The Agent Stack Report

Past the demos: which companies are actually putting AI agents into production, on what stack, and what they run them for. Measured from live hiring.

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