Within Tomorrow, Stripe Sunday, OpenAI by Wednesday
Within's posting hits day 22 tomorrow and Stripe Data & AI crosses Sunday, so both lose hot-window advantage Monday morning. OpenAI Growth-Codex has until September 10. Gray Swan is not under decay pressure, but the overlap between their stated design philosophy and your Trust essay is the closest match on the board.
Four activation packets below — named contacts, drafted outreach, interview prep, what not to say — ordered by when each conversation gets harder to start. Workiva closes September 7; submit the form, but don't let it eat a weekend slot that belongs to Tara Ting or Katie Dill.
Within Tomorrow, Stripe Sunday, OpenAI by Wednesday
Within's posting hits day 22 tomorrow and Stripe Data & AI crosses Sunday, so both lose hot-window advantage Monday morning. OpenAI Growth-Codex has until September 10. Gray Swan is not under decay pressure, but the overlap between their stated design philosophy and your Trust essay is the closest match on the board.
Four activation packets below — named contacts, drafted outreach, interview prep, what not to say — ordered by when each conversation gets harder to start. Workiva closes September 7; submit the form, but don't let it eat a weekend slot that belongs to Tara Ting or Katie Dill.
Fourteen Targets, Sorted by What's Missing
Fourteen recognized targets clear Watch or above. Each one stalls on something specific before it can enter the Priority Action Queue, and the missing thing — not the rubric score — tells you what to do next. Three are clock-constrained: Midjourney crosses to Ignore tomorrow, Within loses its hot window the same day. Three score well but have no confirmed buyer. Four hang on a single unverified fact. Four have decayed below threshold. Worth pulling out separately: Salesforce posted a Slack IC Principal Architect role two days ago that scores 14/15 on the role rubric.
Fourteen Targets, Sorted by What's Missing
Fourteen recognized targets clear Watch or above. Each one stalls on something specific before it can enter the Priority Action Queue, and the missing thing — not the rubric score — tells you what to do next. Three are clock-constrained: Midjourney crosses to Ignore tomorrow, Within loses its hot window the same day. Three score well but have no confirmed buyer. Four hang on a single unverified fact. Four have decayed below threshold. Worth pulling out separately: Salesforce posted a Slack IC Principal Architect role two days ago that scores 14/15 on the role rubric.
Twenty-Four Companies, Two You Should Contact Today
Two hundred candidates evaluated. Twenty-four cleared verification — live employer-controlled postings, qualifying scope, Bay Area eligibility, defensible dates. Two scored Act: Giga (day-1 posting, $240K–$260K base, 15/15 role score, Head of Design publicly hiring) and Fieldguide (day-8 Staff posting, agent-audit review surfaces). Both are agent-judgment problems where your Trust essay and TinyFish production experience put you ahead of portfolio-only candidates. Contact Giga's Q Carlson before the weekend. Seven more at Watch, fifteen on trigger monitoring with named conditions.
Twenty-Four Companies, Two You Should Contact Today
Two hundred candidates evaluated. Twenty-four cleared verification — live employer-controlled postings, qualifying scope, Bay Area eligibility, defensible dates. Two scored Act: Giga (day-1 posting, $240K–$260K base, 15/15 role score, Head of Design publicly hiring) and Fieldguide (day-8 Staff posting, agent-audit review surfaces). Both are agent-judgment problems where your Trust essay and TinyFish production experience put you ahead of portfolio-only candidates. Contact Giga's Q Carlson before the weekend. Seven more at Watch, fifteen on trigger monitoring with named conditions.
Signal Watch — The 100 List. Non-Bay Area Companies with Confirmed Signals
64 non-Bay Area companies verified against the full rubric. One scores Act: Vanta, with a Director of Product Design posting at day 10 and a $275K–$323K band. Thirty score Watch, led by Gray Swan AI (perfect 15/15 role score) and Replicant (Director mandate that's failed twice — investigate before committing). Nine are blocked by geography, nine have decayed past their windows, and five are Skip. Your week starts with Vanta, then Gray Swan, then Replicant. Everything else is sequenced by signal freshness inside ten scored clusters.
Signal Watch — The 100 List. Non-Bay Area Companies with Confirmed Signals
64 non-Bay Area companies verified against the full rubric. One scores Act: Vanta, with a Director of Product Design posting at day 10 and a $275K–$323K band. Thirty score Watch, led by Gray Swan AI (perfect 15/15 role score) and Replicant (Director mandate that's failed twice — investigate before committing). Nine are blocked by geography, nine have decayed past their windows, and five are Skip. Your week starts with Vanta, then Gray Swan, then Replicant. Everything else is sequenced by signal freshness inside ten scored clusters.
100 Dormant Targets, Filed by What Would Wake Them Up
One hundred companies where no qualifying signal is live this cycle. Each one names the specific trigger — a repost, a funding round, a product launch, a geographic policy change — that would upgrade it to Watch or Act. They're clustered by trigger type because that's how you detect them: stale mandates require a Monday ATS check, product-surface expansions require changelog monitoring, funding catalysts require press alerts. Portfolio matches are pre-loaded so you can move the week a trigger fires, not two weeks after.
100 Dormant Targets, Filed by What Would Wake Them Up
One hundred companies where no qualifying signal is live this cycle. Each one names the specific trigger — a repost, a funding round, a product launch, a geographic policy change — that would upgrade it to Watch or Act. They're clustered by trigger type because that's how you detect them: stale mandates require a Monday ATS check, product-surface expansions require changelog monitoring, funding catalysts require press alerts. Portfolio matches are pre-loaded so you can move the week a trigger fires, not two weeks after.
