LinkedIn Company Monitor — Track Headcount, Hires, Posts & Job Openings

One report per company. Updated every time you run it. Tracks the four signals every BD, recruiter, investor and competitive-intel team actually wants.

Stop tab-hopping LinkedIn pages. This actor watches any company's public LinkedIn page and returns a structured intelligence report covering:

• Follower count + delta vs your last run
• Employees on LinkedIn + delta (headcount growth signal)
• Company size band, industry, HQ, founding year, specialties — auto-extracted from the About page
• Latest public posts with reactions, comments, reposts, and AI-classified topic mix (Product launch, Hiring, Funding, Partnership, Customer story, Event, AI/ML, Thought leadership, etc.)
• Open jobs total + sample roles + locations
• New-hire announcements detected in recent posts (with senior-hire flagging)
• An AI-written executive narrative explaining what changed since last run

Pay-per-report pricing. No subscription. No login required.

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Why people use this

• BD reps tracking a target list — see the day a company starts hiring or announces a senior exec hire
• Recruiters monitoring competitors — spot when a rival begins/halts hiring
• Investors — track portfolio companies' growth velocity weekly with one scheduled run
• PR / Brand teams — measure your own LinkedIn follower velocity against competitors
• Competitive intel teams — see which competitors are pushing AI / launches / partnerships in their content
• Agencies — productize a "LinkedIn Intelligence" deliverable for clients without building the scraper

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What makes it different

Most LinkedIn scrapers dump raw data. This one dumps an intelligence report — structured, deduped, with delta vs the previous run baked in. That delta is the whole game. Run it once, you get a snapshot. Run it weekly, you get a hiring/growth/PR signal stream you can pipe straight into Slack, a CRM, or a spreadsheet.

The new-hire detector parses post text for phrases like "please welcome", "excited to welcome", "joining us as our new" — and flags senior hires (Chief / VP / Director / Head of). This is the single most-requested signal from BD teams and we surface it natively.

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Input

{
    "companies": [
        { "name": "Acme Corp", "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/acme/" }
    ],
    "includePosts": true,
    "includeJobs": true,
    "maxPosts": 25,
    "maxJobs": 50,
    "reportStyle": "full"
}

Field	Required	Default	Description
companies[].name	Yes	—	Company name (used in the report headline)
companies[].linkedinUrl	Yes	—	Public LinkedIn company page URL
includePosts	No	true	Scrape latest public posts + engagement + topic mix
includeJobs	No	true	Scrape /jobs/ subpage
maxPosts	No	25	5–100
maxJobs	No	50	5–200
reportStyle	No	full	full (detailed markdown) or brief (short summary)

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Output — one record per company

{
    "company": "Acme Corp",
    "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/acme/",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-16T12:00:00.000Z",
    "snapshot": {
        "followers": 81234,
        "employeesOnLinkedIn": 412,
        "companySize": "201-500 employees",
        "industry": "Software Development",
        "headquarters": "San Francisco, CA",
        "founded": "2017",
        "specialties": "B2B SaaS, Analytics, …",
        "openJobs": 17
    },
    "changeSinceLastRun": {
        "employeesOnLinkedInDelta": 18,
        "followersDelta": 2340,
        "openJobsDelta": 6
    },
    "postCount": 23,
    "postTopicTally": { "Product launch": 5, "Hiring": 4, "AI / ML": 9, "Customer story": 3 },
    "newHireSignals": [
        { "snippet": "Please welcome Jane Doe as our new VP of Engineering…", "seniority": "senior", "namedRole": "VP of Engineering" }
    ],
    "openJobsTotal": 17,
    "sampleJobs": [ { "title": "Staff Software Engineer", "location": "Remote (US)", "url": "…" } ],
    "topPostsByEngagement": [ … ],
    "aiNarrative": "Acme Corp shows 412 employees on LinkedIn with 81,234 followers. Headcount on LinkedIn grew by 18 since last run (394 → 412). The page added 2,340 followers since last run. Top post themes across the last 23 posts: AI / ML (9), Product launch (5), Hiring (4). Detected 1 senior hire announcement in recent posts.",
    "intelligenceReport": "# LinkedIn Monitor Report — Acme Corp\n…"
}

intelligenceReport is a ready-to-paste markdown report.

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Pricing

$0.75 per company report (pay-per-event). One company in companies = one report = one charge.

Why it's worth it: 30+ minutes of manual page-watching per company, replaced with a $0.75 API call that also remembers your last run and tells you what changed.

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Common workflows

• Weekly scheduled run on your target accounts → pipe changeSinceLastRun to Slack → BD reps wake up to a "what moved this week" feed
• Hiring velocity tracker — schedule weekly, alert when employeesOnLinkedInDelta >= 5
• New-exec radar — alert when newHireSignals[].seniority === 'senior'
• Content-strategy intel — compare postTopicTally across 10 competitors to see what topics they're pushing

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Tips

• Run with includePosts: true for the new-hire and topic-mix signals — that's where most of the value is.
• The actor stores a snapshot per company per Apify account, so you get delta automatically from the second run onward.
• For broader hiring intelligence across multiple ATSes (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Indeed), check out our Hiring Signal Intelligence Agent.

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Limits & honesty

• Public data only. No login. No password. No private profile scraping.
• LinkedIn intermittently shows aggressive login walls — when that happens the actor degrades gracefully: it returns whatever it could read and clearly labels the rest.
• Engagement numbers on posts are read from the visible UI. They reflect what LinkedIn shows publicly.

Built and maintained by Johnson AI Consulting — see also our Hiring Signal Intelligence Agent, Review Intelligence Agent, Competitor Intelligence Monitor, and Amazon Product Intelligence.