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Recommended for newsrooms with a legal-business beat · $2,995/mo · annual preferred

Beat the press release by three days.

Built for the desk that has to file before the firm calls anyone back. Every posting is in the Index the morning it goes live, the cross-firm pattern is already scored, and the record-of-origin URL is one click from the brief.

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Client Data Index · newsroom slice Live Visual Data Aggregation API
The problem · The signal

You're running a legal-business beat against incumbents who get the press release at the same time you do.

01 What's broken today

"By the time the firm sends the announcement, half the desk has already seen it on LinkedIn. The scoop is in what they're hiring next, and that's a job posting, not a press release."

  • P/01

    Press releases lag the move by 3–7 days

    Firms announce hires and group expansions on their own clock. The job postings that signal the expansion go live weeks earlier and are public from day one.

  • P/02

    Manual sweeping burns hours and misses the soft signals

    Combing 11,068 active postings by hand is unworkable. The pattern — three new postings in the same sub-practice at the same firm in the same market — is invisible without a graph.

  • P/03

    Tip lines are lossy and unverifiable

    A tip needs corroboration before legal will clear it. The Index is the corroboration: an originating record, timestamp, and the path back to the posting page.

02 What we ship

A queryable graph of every active posting, refreshed at 04:00 UTC, with a record-of-origin URL on every row and a copy-ready brief generator on every story.

  • V/01

    Story-Ready Postings Feed

    A reverse-chrono feed scoped to the firms, practices, and markets you cover. Each row carries a Copy headline, Copy 50-word summary, and Copy sourcing footnote action.

  • V/02

    Embargo-friendly delivery

    Webhook payloads carry an embargo_until header set per-account. Park the brief, file when the embargo lifts.

  • V/03

    Source URL on every record

    Every posting in the Index carries the originating URL and capture timestamp. Editors clear it the same way they clear a quote: by following the link.

Edge use cases · For the legal-business beat

Three queries you can run on day one.

Every record is normalized into the same taxonomy. Cross-cut however your model needs.
USE CASE 01

First-mover detection

Surface the firm that posts a brand-new role taxonomy first — "Director of AI Governance," "Head of Restructuring Analytics," "Of Counsel · Deepfake Litigation" — and watch which competitors copy the shape over the next 90 days. The story writes itself.

GET /v1/role-families/first-seen?days=30
USE CASE 02

Capacity & growth narratives

Posting velocity per sub-practice + open-req count + req-age decile = a leading indicator of the next group expansion. Pitch the story before the press release lands.

GET /v1/firms/{id}/posting-velocity?practice=pe_funds
USE CASE 03

Compensation-band drift

Posted salary bands move week-over-week. Track the NY first-year band, the Houston energy litigation band, the in-house GC band. Beat the annual comp-survey cycle by ten months.

GET /v1/comp-bands?market=ny&jd_year=1&since=30d
Demo · /dashboard/postings-feed · newsroom view

Story-Ready Postings Feed

Preview view shown. Live customers configure beat coverage, embargo windows, and webhook delivery.
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Senior Associate · Private Equity Funds — Kirkland & Ellis · New York
first-seen role taxonomy PE secondaries JD year 5–7 $435K–$510K
posted 4h ago
+3 similar this week
LW
Counsel · Restructuring & Special Situations — Latham & Watkins · Houston
restructuring energy JD year 8–10 growth signal · 4-of-5
posted 9h ago
3rd in Houston this month
PW
Director of AI Governance — Paul, Weiss · New York
first-seen role family non-attorney no peer firm has this title yet
posted 14h ago
scoop candidate
CG
Knowledge Management Analyst · Litigation — Cleary Gottlieb · Washington DC
professional staff KM litigation
posted 1d ago
11,068 active postings 47 new in last 24h ↑ Copy headline · Copy 50-word summary · Copy sourcing footnote
Pricing for legal media

Single tier for newsrooms.

All tiers
Newsroom · annual
$2,995 /month
Read-only Client Data Index, 10K calls/mo, 24-hour data lag, story-ready brief generator, embargo-friendly webhooks.
Investigative desk
$5,995 /month
Real-time push, unlimited calls, embargo controls, signed-URL embeds for digital stories. For desks running ≥10 legal-business pieces a quarter.

Newsroom rate is annual, billed quarterly. Independent media gets the standard rate; freelance journalists, contact us.