# WARN Layoff & Corporate Distress Intelligence (`quanmatrix/warn-layoff-distress-intelligence`) Actor

Use this Actor to analyze warn layoff and corporate distress and return decision-ready structured signals. Turn WARN layoff notices into company-level layoff acceleration, affected-headcount, geographic concentration and distress signals.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/quanmatrix/warn-layoff-distress-intelligence.md
- **Developed by:** [Rafael Barreto Haddad](https://apify.com/quanmatrix) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $8.40 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## WARN Layoff & Corporate Distress Intelligence

Use this Actor to analyze warn layoff and corporate distress and return decision-ready structured signals. It is designed for repeatable human, API, Apify AI, and MCP-driven workflows.

Turn WARN layoff notices into company-level layoff acceleration, affected-headcount, geographic concentration and distress signals.

### Why use this Actor

WARN notices provide individual layoffs, but recruiting, sales and risk teams need recurring company-level intelligence about acceleration, affected headcount and geographic concentration. This Actor sits above raw extraction: supply a current dataset, optionally add a previous snapshot, and receive an aggregated report built for recurring monitoring and AI-agent workflows.

### Key features

- Company-level layoff acceleration instead of notice rows only.

- Snapshot comparison for newly deteriorating employers.

- Affected-headcount and geographic concentration scoring.

- Corporate distress actions for recurring monitoring.

- Low-compute 256 MB data-first architecture.

- Reads inline JSON rows or Apify Dataset IDs with limited READ permission.

- Writes one auditable report to the default Dataset and `INTELLIGENCE_REPORT`.

### Example

Use the prefilled example or replace `currentItems` with rows from an upstream Actor. On recurring runs, provide the prior period in `previousItems` or `previousDatasetId`. The Actor normalizes common aliases, compares snapshots, ranks the strongest entity changes and emits `agentAction`.

### Use cases

- Credit risk.
- Recruiting.
- B2B sales triggers.
- Economic research.
- Private equity.

### Pricing

One primary pay-per-event outcome: one decision-ready intelligence report. Base price USD 0.012 before Apify tier discounts. The 256 MB data-first architecture is designed for strong unit economics.

### Limitations

- Analyzes supplied public or appropriately licensed data and does not bypass restricted sources.
- Scores are decision-support signals, not predictions or guarantees.
- Keep stable identifiers across snapshots for best change detection.
- Zero-direct-competition status is rechecked before publication because the Store changes continuously.

### Workflow

`upstream dataset -> current snapshot -> optional previous snapshot -> normalization -> entity aggregation -> change scoring -> ranked signals -> agentAction`.

### Input

Provide `currentItems` inline or select `currentDatasetId` from Apify storage. For period-over-period analysis, add `previousItems` or `previousDatasetId`. The Actor uses read-only Dataset permission and accepts up to 50,000 records per run. Stable source identifiers improve exact new/removed record detection, while common aliases are normalized for entity, value, date and secondary dimensions.

### Output

The default Dataset receives one compact intelligence report containing current and previous record counts, newly observed and removed records, an aggregate market signal score, ranked entity-level signals, secondary-dimension concentration and a deterministic `agentAction`. The same report is also saved as `INTELLIGENCE_REPORT` in key-value storage for downstream Tasks, Schedules, webhooks and agentic workflows.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/quanmatrix/warn-layoff-distress-intelligence/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `currentItems` (type: `array`):

Current source or normalized rows to analyze.

## `currentDatasetId` (type: `string`):

Optional Apify Dataset ID used when currentItems is not supplied.

## `previousItems` (type: `array`):

Optional previous snapshot rows for period-over-period comparison.

## `previousDatasetId` (type: `string`):

Optional previous Apify Dataset ID used instead of previousItems.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum records loaded from a Dataset input.

## `mcpConnectors` (type: `array`):

Optional MCP connectors authorized in your Apify account. Use them to send or write this Actor result to tools such as Slack, Notion, GitHub, Sentry, Supabase, or another compatible MCP service.

## `mcpToolName` (type: `string`):

Optional exact MCP tool name. Leave blank to let the selected MCP action preset discover a compatible tool automatically.

## `mcpToolArguments` (type: `object`):

JSON object passed to the selected MCP tool. String values may use {{actor\_title}}, {{result\_summary}}, or {{result\_json}} placeholders.

## `mcpFailOnError` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, an MCP delivery error fails the Actor run. Disabled by default so data extraction and intelligence results remain available even if the external destination is unavailable.

## `mcpActionPreset` (type: `string`):

Choose a safe action pattern. AUTO\_SAFE\_WRITE discovers a compatible non-destructive write tool automatically; use a specific preset for Slack, GitHub, Notion, or database delivery.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "currentItems": [
    {
      "noticeId": "W1",
      "company": "Acme",
      "employeesAffected": 400,
      "state": "CA",
      "noticeDate": "2026-08-01"
    },
    {
      "noticeId": "W2",
      "company": "Acme",
      "employeesAffected": 250,
      "state": "TX",
      "noticeDate": "2026-08-15"
    },
    {
      "noticeId": "W3",
      "company": "Beta",
      "employeesAffected": 100,
      "state": "NY",
      "noticeDate": "2026-08-10"
    }
  ],
  "previousItems": [
    {
      "noticeId": "P1",
      "company": "Acme",
      "employeesAffected": 150,
      "state": "CA",
      "noticeDate": "2026-05-01"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 20000,
  "mcpToolName": "",
  "mcpToolArguments": {},
  "mcpFailOnError": false,
  "mcpActionPreset": "AUTO_SAFE_WRITE"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Decision-ready intelligence report.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "currentItems": [
        {
            "noticeId": "W1",
            "company": "Acme",
            "employeesAffected": 400,
            "state": "CA",
            "noticeDate": "2026-08-01"
        },
        {
            "noticeId": "W2",
            "company": "Acme",
            "employeesAffected": 250,
            "state": "TX",
            "noticeDate": "2026-08-15"
        },
        {
            "noticeId": "W3",
            "company": "Beta",
            "employeesAffected": 100,
            "state": "NY",
            "noticeDate": "2026-08-10"
        }
    ],
    "previousItems": [
        {
            "noticeId": "P1",
            "company": "Acme",
            "employeesAffected": 150,
            "state": "CA",
            "noticeDate": "2026-05-01"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("quanmatrix/warn-layoff-distress-intelligence").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "currentItems": [
        {
            "noticeId": "W1",
            "company": "Acme",
            "employeesAffected": 400,
            "state": "CA",
            "noticeDate": "2026-08-01",
        },
        {
            "noticeId": "W2",
            "company": "Acme",
            "employeesAffected": 250,
            "state": "TX",
            "noticeDate": "2026-08-15",
        },
        {
            "noticeId": "W3",
            "company": "Beta",
            "employeesAffected": 100,
            "state": "NY",
            "noticeDate": "2026-08-10",
        },
    ],
    "previousItems": [{
            "noticeId": "P1",
            "company": "Acme",
            "employeesAffected": 150,
            "state": "CA",
            "noticeDate": "2026-05-01",
        }],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("quanmatrix/warn-layoff-distress-intelligence").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "currentItems": [
    {
      "noticeId": "W1",
      "company": "Acme",
      "employeesAffected": 400,
      "state": "CA",
      "noticeDate": "2026-08-01"
    },
    {
      "noticeId": "W2",
      "company": "Acme",
      "employeesAffected": 250,
      "state": "TX",
      "noticeDate": "2026-08-15"
    },
    {
      "noticeId": "W3",
      "company": "Beta",
      "employeesAffected": 100,
      "state": "NY",
      "noticeDate": "2026-08-10"
    }
  ],
  "previousItems": [
    {
      "noticeId": "P1",
      "company": "Acme",
      "employeesAffected": 150,
      "state": "CA",
      "noticeDate": "2026-05-01"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call quanmatrix/warn-layoff-distress-intelligence --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,quanmatrix/warn-layoff-distress-intelligence"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/T5WhoMNLsRLCFtgXO/builds/VMB2KtJf8elpdazEJ/openapi.json