Hiring Velocity B2B Pipeline

Companies hiring senior engineers in your skill area are a high confidence buying signal for dev tools, observability, infra, and developer experience products. This pipeline pulls Indeed jobs by skill, groups by company, scores hiring velocity, verifies each company's domain, and returns one row per qualified buyer.

What you get per row

Field	Description
companyName, industry, headcountBand	Core company identity from Indeed
companyWebsite	Company website surfaced by Indeed
domain	Root domain of the website
websiteReachable	True when HTTP HEAD returns < 500
mxFound	True when the domain has a valid MX record
likelyContactEmails	Inferred info@, careers@, hello@, and any emails surfaced
openRolesCount	Number of matching postings during the run window
roleTitles	Sample of titles found (deduplicated)
topSkills	Most common skills across the company's postings
seniorPostingsCount	How many of the postings are senior level or higher
hiringVelocityScore	Composite 0 to 100 score combining role count, recency, and seniority mix
daysSinceLastPosting	Recency signal
firstPostingDate, lastPostingDate	Window of activity captured this run
indeedCompanyUrl	Link back to the Indeed company page for verification
qualityTier	qualified or basic based on your input rules

How qualification works

A row is qualified when ALL of the following hold:

• The company has at least minPostingsPerCompany matching postings (default 2)
• If requireWebsite is on (default): website is reachable AND domain has an MX record

Everything else that came back from Indeed is returned as basic.

Pricing

• qualified_hiring_company $0.20 each. First 3 per run are free.
• basic_company $0.05 each.

Apify auto-applies 20% margin. You see net.

What you actually pay per company

This actor chains the Indeed Jobs Intelligence actor under the hood. Your run will show two line items on the Apify billing breakdown.

Quality tier	Indeed stage	This pipeline	Total per company
Basic	~$0.05 (varies by jobs scraped)	$0.05	~$0.10
Qualified	~$0.05	$0.20	~$0.25

The Indeed cost scales with maxJobsTotal, not company count. Increasing the job cap finds more companies but the per company unit cost stays roughly the same.

For comparison, B2B engineering-org leads with verified emails run $1 to $5 per record on Apollo and Clay. You are paying 4x to 20x less for a row that already includes a hiring intent signal, domain MX, and email patterns.

Two patterns of use

Daily watch: schedule a run every morning with datePosted: 1 (last 24 hours) and your skill list. New companies entering active hiring become leads the same day they post.

Vertical sweep: one off run with datePosted: 14, maxJobsTotal: 500, and 3 to 5 skills covering a vertical (e.g., kubernetes, terraform, prometheus for infra teams). Returns a full ranked list of companies hiring in that vertical right now.

Common use cases

• Dev tool sellers (observability, IDE, CI, infra) prospecting active hiring orgs
• Recruiters and staffing agencies tracking openings by skill
• Investors mapping which startups are scaling engineering teams
• Outbound sales teams prioritizing accounts by hiring intent

Tips

• Start with maxJobsTotal: 100 and senior_level experience to validate output before scaling.
• Drop the requireWebsite gate when prospecting smaller companies that use third party careers sites (Lever, Greenhouse) and may not surface a homepage to Indeed.
• Tune minPostingsPerCompany up to 3 or 5 for stronger signal at the cost of fewer companies returned.

Built on

• Indeed Jobs Intelligence (sister actor) for job and company data
• DNS level MX verification (no third party API)
• Email pattern inference from canonical domain

PAY_PER_EVENT on the Apify BRONZE plan.