Board Status
No newly verified Director+ design listings in today's direct-source scan. Holiday weekend means most hiring teams are dark through Monday. Stay on active outreach.
Starting this cycle, the expanded monitoring universe scores on activation likelihood instead of opportunity density. Opportunity density measured category heat — how AI-relevant or well-funded a company looked. Useful for building the list, less useful for deciding what to do on a Tuesday morning. Activation likelihood scores whether you should move on a specific company today. Four components, all required: live or likely leadership need, reachable decision-maker, strong published portfolio match at junochen.com, and a current trigger.
The 100 List below is a monitoring perimeter. Each company holds one of three operating states: Act, Watch, or Ignore-until-trigger. Any company that crosses into Act routes to a Battlecard request. Daily check stays under three minutes.
Recent Triggers
Market Context
The 100 List
100 companies beyond your current target list, scored on four factors: live design leadership need, reachable decision-maker, published portfolio match, and a current trigger. One has a live Director+ posting right now. 33 are worth weekly monitoring. The other 66 each have a named condition that would change their state. Clusters are ordered by composite activation likelihood — Legal AI outranks Frontier Labs because the portfolio match is stronger and the hiring signals are real. Most of the country is offline through Sunday. Your outreach window opens Tuesday.
The 100 List
100 companies beyond your current target list, scored on four factors: live design leadership need, reachable decision-maker, published portfolio match, and a current trigger. One has a live Director+ posting right now. 33 are worth weekly monitoring. The other 66 each have a named condition that would change their state. Clusters are ordered by composite activation likelihood — Legal AI outranks Frontier Labs because the portfolio match is stronger and the hiring signals are real. Most of the country is offline through Sunday. Your outreach window opens Tuesday.