Six-Signal Alt-Data Momentum — HSH Data-on-Demand

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For AI agents

Point your agent at the x402 endpoint.
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What you get · 6 signals

Six independent signals, one composite read.

Pass a company (and optional identifiers); receive all six signals, each from its own primary source.

Hiring velocity

Open roles across three applicant-tracking systems — Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby — with department mix (engineering vs sales/GTM). Tells you whether a company is building product or expanding go-to-market.

hiring

Insider activity

SEC Form 4 filing count over the last 90 days — a read on insider buying/selling cadence.

insider

GitHub velocity

Stars and commit activity — engineering and product momentum for companies with a public codebase.

github

Wikipedia trend

Pageview trajectory — a clean proxy for public attention rising or fading.

wikipedia

App Store rank

Apple top-free positioning — consumer pull for companies with a mobile app.

app_store

Hacker News velocity

Mention frequency on Hacker News — developer and early-adopter buzz.

hacker_news

Where it comes from

Six independent signals, fused.

A composite built from six independent, authoritative signal categories — the alt-data surface hedge funds pay five figures a year to assemble, delivered per company, per call.

Live hiring & insider signals

Real-time hiring posture and official insider-transaction disclosures — leading indicators of momentum and conviction.

live · official

Public momentum signals

Engineering velocity, public attention, consumer pull, and community buzz — each from its authoritative public source.

real-time

Proprietary fusion

Six noisy signals resolved into one clean directional read using our own composite methodology.

proprietary methodology

Institutional alt-data, accessible

The same factor surface enterprise platforms charge five figures for — priced to call across a universe.

premium access

Sample output

What comes back.

{
  "company": "Coinbase",
  "hiring": { "open_roles": 142, "mix": "gtm_expansion" },
  "insider": { "form4_90d": 11 },
  "github": { "star_velocity": "rising" },
  "wikipedia": { "pageview_trend": "up" },
  "app_store": { "top_free_rank": 38 },
  "hacker_news": { "mention_velocity": "elevated" }
}

Who calls it

Use cases.

For autonomous agents

Fundamental agent

Read real momentum

Hiring, code, attention and buzz together give a directional read on whether a company is accelerating — well before it shows in reported numbers.

Venture scout

Spot break-out early

Rising GitHub, HN and Wikipedia signals flag companies gaining traction before they're obvious.

Long/short strategy

Composite factor

Feed the six-signal composite into a model as a momentum factor — primary-sourced and cheap enough to call across a universe.

For analysts & desks

Fundamental analyst

Momentum before the print

Hiring, code velocity and attention signals give a directional read on whether a company is accelerating — weeks before the reported numbers confirm it.

VC / deal scout

Find break-outs early

Rising GitHub, HN and Wikipedia signals surface companies gaining traction before they hit the obvious deal radar.

Corp dev / strategy

Track a competitor

Watch a rival's hiring and product-attention curve over time as an early read on where they're investing.

How to call it

Discover, pay, receive.

01 · Discover

Find the tool

Via MCP or the /x402/catalog. Input: a company name plus optional ATS slugs, ticker, GitHub org, etc.

02 · Pay

Pay per call

Send the x402 payment in USDC on Base. Fixed deterministic price.

03 · Receive

Get the intel

All six signals return inline — ready to compose into a momentum read.

# call the alt-data signal tool
curl -H "X-Payment: <x402-usdc-base-payload>" \
     "https://dod.hshintelligence.com/mcp" \
     -d '{"tool":"hsh-hiring-signal","input":{"company":"Coinbase","ticker":"COIN"}}'

Questions

FAQ.

Do I need to provide all the identifiers?

No — pass what you have. Give a company name and the tool returns whatever signals it can resolve; supply optional Greenhouse/Lever/Ashby slugs, a ticker, GitHub org, Wikipedia title, or iOS app for fuller coverage.

Why six signals instead of one?

Any single alt-data signal is noisy and easy to misread. The value is in the composite — when hiring, code, attention, consumer pull and buzz line up, that's a real directional read. One call gets you all six.

How is this different from enterprise alt-data?

Platforms like Thinknum or Revelio run $15K–$50K/year enterprise contracts. This delivers a comparable six-signal composite per company, per call, at a price an agent can call across a whole universe.

Which companies work best?

Tech and consumer companies with a public footprint (job boards, GitHub, an app, HN presence) get the richest read. For public companies, the SEC Form 4 insider signal adds another dimension.

Is the data live?

Yes — each signal is pulled from its live source at call time (job boards, EDGAR, GitHub, Wikipedia, App Store, Hacker News).

Six-signal alt-data momentum.