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.
Activation likelihood — all four present to reach Act state:
- Leadership need — verified posting, IC design cluster, exec hire creating a gap, or product launch without design leadership
- Reachable buyer — CPO, CEO, VP Product contactable via warm intro, cold outreach, or recruiter path now
- Portfolio match — role's core problem maps to a specific published case at junochen.com, not a generic category association
- Current trigger — verifiable event (funding, launch, hire, departure, repost) inside its action window
Operating states:
- Act — verified posting + at least one other component. Move today.
- Watch — one or two components present. Name the specific trigger that would shift it.
- Ignore-until-trigger — plausible company, no active signal. Zero daily attention.