# Read what your competitors are hiring for. Roles, skills and team sizes, this month Competitor hiring intel reads job posts as a public signal of where rivals invest. With Agentik, your AI reads their open roles and the skills in each post through TikHub, counts their people by department with Leadsforge, and reads their careers pages with Firecrawl. - For: Talent, strategy and product teams - Providers: 3 (TikHub, Leadsforge and Firecrawl), 4 tools - Example (Three competitors, 3 LinkedIn job searches, 10 posts read with skills, 6 free department counts, 3 careers pages): at most $0.66, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-10-10 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **TikHub** (2 tools, at most $0.65): Competitors’ open LinkedIn roles and the skills in each post. - **Leadsforge** (1 tool, free): Headcount by department at each competitor, counted for free. - **Firecrawl** (1 tool, at most $0.0075): Their careers pages, read for benefits, locations and the pitch to candidates. ## Give this to your agent ```text Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: competitor hiring intel. Read what my competitors are hiring for. First ask me for three competitors, their domains and their LinkedIn company IDs if I have them. Find their open roles from the last month with tikhub/linkedin-web-v2-search-jobs and read ten posts with their skills with tikhub/linkedin-web-v2-get-job-detail. Count their people by department with leadsforge/count-people. Read their careers pages with firecrawl/scrape. Finish with each competitor’s hiring by team, the skills and tools that signal what they build, how their teams compare in size, and what it means for us. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged. ``` ## You provide - Three competitors and their domains - Their LinkedIn company IDs, if you have them ## What you get: a hiring read-out on three competitors - Open roles by team for each competitor - Skills and tools that hint at their roadmap - Team sizes by department - What it means for you ## How to read competitors’ hiring in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: Three competitors, 3 LinkedIn job searches, 10 posts read with skills, 6 free department counts, 3 careers pages. ### 1. Find their open roles TikHub lists each competitor’s LinkedIn roles from the last month and reads ten posts with their skills. - [LinkedIn job search](/tools/tikhub/linkedin-web-v2-search-jobs.md) `tikhub/linkedin-web-v2-search-jobs` (TikHub, 3 competitors): at most $0.15 - [LinkedIn job detail](/tools/tikhub/linkedin-web-v2-get-job-detail.md) `tikhub/linkedin-web-v2-get-job-detail` (TikHub, 10 posts): at most $0.50 ### 2. Size their teams Leadsforge counts each competitor’s people by department, for free. - [Leadsforge people count](/tools/leadsforge/count-people.md) `leadsforge/count-people` (Leadsforge, 6 counts): free ### 3. Read their careers pages Firecrawl reads their careers pages for benefits, locations and how they pitch themselves to candidates. - [Scrape a web page to markdown](/tools/firecrawl/scrape.md) `firecrawl/scrape` (Firecrawl, 3 pages): at most $0.0075 ### 4. Write the read-out Your AI writes each competitor’s hiring by team, the skills that hint at what they build, and what it means for you. Example total: at most $0.66. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - What are my three competitors hiring for this month? - Which skills in Competitor A’s job posts hint at a new product? - How big are my competitors’ engineering and sales teams? - What do my competitors’ careers pages promise candidates? ## Why through Agentik - Job posts, team counts and careers pages come from TikHub, Leadsforge and Firecrawl through one connection. - Team counts are free; LinkedIn job reads are most of the price. ## Good to know - Job posts hint at plans; they are not announcements. - Department counts are Leadsforge estimates from public profiles. ## When to use something else For continuous hiring trend tracking across your market, use a workforce intelligence provider. This playbook reads three competitors in one sitting. ## Competitor hiring intel: questions ### Do job posts reveal plans? They hint at them. A post is not an announcement, and your AI keeps the difference clear. ### Where do team sizes come from? Leadsforge estimates them from public profiles. ### What does the example cost? At most $0.66, reserved before each call and settled at the measured usage. ## Keep going - [Competitor change tracker](/competitor-tracker.md): What changed this month on three competitors’ home, pricing and product pages against last month’s archived copies, their news and their search traffic. - [Prospects from job posts](/hiring-signal-prospects.md): Companies hiring for the role your product helps, found on LinkedIn and Google Jobs, with the head of that team and a verified email. - [Market research](/market-research.md): The companies in the space, their pricing pages, Google search demand for the category, and what buyers say on Hacker News and X. - [Company data tools for your agent](/tools/company.md) - [B2B data and enrichment tools for your agent](/tools/enrichment.md) - [Scraping tools for your agent](/tools/scraping.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/competitor-hiring-intel) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)