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Use Cases / Market Intelligence

Market intelligence is signal
extraction at scale.

These are the sources. Four signal layers: social, economic, hiring, and public sector.

Social Listening

What people say when they are not talking to you.

Reddit

Brand sentiment and competitive discussion live in subreddits, not in surveys. The Reddit Scraper returns full comment trees so you can read the actual conversation: what users dislike about your competitors, which features they request, and what language they use to describe the problem you solve.

Reddit Scraper →
Threads

Threads moves fast. Hashtag and search modes let you track emerging topics and brand mentions before they reach mainstream coverage. Profile mode lets you monitor competitor accounts and their engagement rates.

Threads Scraper →
Instagram

Influencer and brand presence monitoring at scale. Pull follower counts, engagement, bio links, and recent post data for any public account. No login, no Meta API key, no quota negotiation.

Instagram Profile Scraper →
Economic Signals

Trade flows, macro context, and government contracts.

Global Trade Data

Import and export shifts between countries signal supply chain changes before they appear in earnings calls. Filter by HS code to track a specific product category: electronics components, chemical inputs, agricultural commodities. The Global Trade Data actor covers 200+ countries via World Bank WITS.

Global Trade Data →
World Bank Indicators

GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, and trade as a share of GDP give you the macro context for any market entry or expansion decision. 1,400+ indicators, 200+ countries, time series going back 60 years.

World Bank Indicators →
USAspending Federal Awards

Federal contract awards are public data. Search by agency, NAICS code, or recipient to build a B2G sales pipeline, track competitor contract wins, or monitor budget shifts across federal programs. Over $6 trillion in awards per year.

USAspending Federal Awards →
Hiring Signals

Job postings as a leading indicator.

A company does not announce its strategy. But its job board does. A cluster of ML engineer roles signals a product bet. A sudden expansion in sales headcount signals a market push. A DevOps hiring surge precedes a platform rebuild.

The ATS Jobs Scraper pulls directly from Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, and Ashby employer boards using their public APIs. No auth tokens, no browser automation. Supply a list of company identifiers and get structured job data across all four platforms in one run.

ATS Jobs Scraper →
Public Sector Signals

Government portals as intelligence sources.

Socrata powers open data portals for CDC, HHS, CMS, New York City, Chicago, Texas, and 200+ other government entities. All of them share one API and one query language.

Use cases: CDC disease surveillance data for healthcare market sizing, city 311 complaint data for civic tech products, state expenditure data for government sales, HHS hospital quality scores for provider benchmarking tools.

The Socrata Open Data actor handles portal discovery plus SoQL-filtered data pulls. One actor, all 200+ portals.

Socrata Open Data →
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Several of these actors also feed RAG pipelines and compliance monitoring workflows.