Investor Intelligence

Know what's happening inside every company you back, watch, or trade.

Inkling gives investors a continuous read on the people moving in and out of the companies that move your returns — portfolio, targets, competitors, coverage. Hires, departures, promotions, attrition. One briefing every week, or piped straight into your model.

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Anthropic
Headcount momentum · 90d
Sample
Joined · 90d
+200
Left · 90d
−70
Net change · 90d
+130
Promotions · 90d
6
Net +130 — heavily engineering-weighted, GTM leadership scaling.
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Why investors use Inkling

Your portfolio updates you quarterly. Your coverage prints quarterly. The market moves daily.

Board decks and reference calls are backward-looking. By the time a hiring spree or an exec exodus reaches a filing or a sell-side note, the edge is gone. People moves happen in real time and they're public — a sales build-out, a CFO heading for the door, attrition climbing in a key function. Inkling reads those signals across every company you care about, continuously, so you see the change while it's still actionable.

What you get

Fundamentals you can read in the people.

Headcount momentum and attrition, by function

Track net headcount change, hiring velocity, and attrition trend for every company you follow — broken out by function, so a sales build-out or an engineering bleed doesn't hide in the aggregate.

The executive departure before the print

A CFO, CRO, or CTO leaving is one of the cleanest fundamental signals there is — and a key exec exit at a portfolio company is one you want before the founder tells you. We catch it the week it happens, often before it's announced.

Delivered as a briefing or a feed

Read it as a weekly briefing across every company you watch, or take it raw. Inkling pushes the signals you care about to your inbox, Slack, or straight into your model and alerting via API and webhooks.

The aha

The people signals that move a thesis.

01
A sales team doubling in two quarters.

Pipeline is being built before it shows up in revenue. You see the build-out while it's still a forward indicator.

02
The CFO just quietly went open-to-work.

One of the highest-signal departures there is — and you have it before the 8-K, or before the board does.

03
Attrition climbing in a core function.

Retention is breaking somewhere that matters — a read on operational health the financials won't show for another quarter or two.

04
A whole team walked out together.

A pod of senior engineers or sales leaders leaving at once is worth a call — and you caught it the week it happened.

05
Three senior people joined a portco or target from a category leader.

They're building, and you know the direction six weeks before anyone writes about it.

Built into your workflow

A briefing for your Monday, an API for your model.

Weekly briefing

Every move across the companies you watch, ranked by what matters, in a five-minute read you can forward to the desk or drop into a board update.

Immediate alerts

The big moves — a senior departure, a hiring surge — hit your inbox or Slack the day we catch them.

API & webhooks

Pull the underlying people data into your model, or fire signals into your own alerting and research stack.

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curl https://inkling.co/api/v1/changes \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer KEY"
Public signals only. Inkling reads public professional profiles and other public information — no private or material non-public data, ever.
Sample briefing

Your coverage, every Monday.

Every move across the companies you watch, ranked by what matters — public signals only.

Inkling · Weekly Market Briefing
MON · 7:00 AM
17 MOVES · 4 MAJOR

17 moves across your coverage

The read this week: Ramp's CFO quietly flipped to open-to-work and its VP of Sales left with no destination, while Stripe added a Ramp engineering director — the second Ramp → Stripe move this quarter. GTM retention pressure at Ramp, technical build accelerating at Stripe.

Departures3
Dana Kobayashi Left company
Was VP of Sales at Ramp · no new role listed yet
+ 2 more departures
New roles5
Sarah Chen Joined company
Ramp → Director of Engineering at Stripe
Elena Voss Promoted
Director → VP Marketing at Mercury
+ 3 more new roles
Profile activity9
Jamie Singh Open to work
CFO at Ramp · quietly open to work
+ 8 more minor updates
Market pulse · 90dStripe+128−41Ramp+59−72
Sample data · public signals only

The companies you back and the ones you trade are making moves. See them first.

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