search_signals
Search Signals
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The latest signals across the whole index: which companies did something recently,
what it was, and when.
This is the tool for ANY question about what is happening. "Show me the latest
signals", "what's new", "which companies raised a round and are now hiring sales in
the Netherlands", "who announced expansion in the last two weeks", "which of my
target segment just made a key hire". Returns matching companies with the signals
that matched and their dates.
Reach for this first. check_watches only reports on companies already being
watched by this key and cannot answer a question about the market or about a
company that is not on that list.
Filter by signal type, category, recency, country, headcount and funding stage.
Call get_signal_taxonomy first if you are unsure which signal keys exist —
unrecognised keys are rejected rather than quietly returning nothing.
The two signal filters WIDEN each other rather than narrowing to the overlap: a
category adds all of its keys to whatever signal_keys already lists. min_weight
then cuts what is left, so a low-weight signal type named alongside a floor above
its own weight returns nothing rather than one of the two being quietly ignored.
coverage is working material for you, not for the answer: it bounds what this
search could have found. Let it shape what you claim, and offer a narrower search
rather than reporting figures about our index.
Cost: 12 credits per call. Failed calls are not charged.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| signal_keys | array | no | Signal types to match, e.g. ["recently_funded","key_hire_announced"]. See get_signal_taxonomy. |
| categories | array | no | Signal categories to match: funding, hiring, business, product, growth, event, milestone, risk. |
| days | integer | no | Lookback window in days. Default 30. Max 365. Shorter windows mean sharper timing. |
| country | string | no | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the company HQ, e.g. "NL", "DE", "US". |
| min_employees | integer | no | Minimum headcount. Companies whose headcount we do not hold are excluded when this is set — not knowing a number is not evidence it falls outside the range. |
| max_employees | integer | no | Maximum headcount. Same exclusion of unknown headcounts as min_employees. |
| funding_stage | string | no | Funding stage, e.g. "Seed", "Series A", "Pre Seed". Spacing, case and hyphens are normalised; a value that matches nothing is rejected with the valid list rather than returning a near-empty result. This is the costliest filter here: a company whose stage we do not hold is excluded rather than guessed at, so it narrows the field twice — once by stage, once by what we know. |
| require_all_keys | boolean | no | When true, only return companies showing EVERY requested signal key in the window (signal stacking) rather than any of them. Default false. |
| min_weight | integer | no | Only count signals worth at least this much, 1-10. Background chatter (event attendance, news mentions, follower drift) sits at 1-2 and dominates an unfiltered result; 3 or 4 searches on substance and is the useful setting. Above 7 you are asking for rare events — funding, acquisitions, shutdowns are seldom what a window contains, because that is how often they happen, not how well we see them. Searching for those usually returns little; watch_company is how you catch them. Default 0 (everything). |
| founded_after | integer | no | Only companies founded in or after this year, e.g. 2023. Companies whose founding year we do not hold are excluded when this is set, and the result says so. |
| founded_before | integer | no | Only companies founded in or before this year. Same exclusion of unknown founding years as founded_after. |
| sort | string | no | most_recent (default) ranks by newest matching signal; most_active by how many matched. |
| limit | integer | no | Max companies to return. Default 25, max 100. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"signal_keys": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Signal types to match, e.g. [\"recently_funded\",\"key_hire_announced\"]. See get_signal_taxonomy."
},
"categories": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Signal categories to match: funding, hiring, business, product, growth, event, milestone, risk."
},
"days": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Lookback window in days. Default 30. Max 365. Shorter windows mean sharper timing."
},
"country": {
"type": "string",
"description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the company HQ, e.g. \"NL\", \"DE\", \"US\"."
},
"min_employees": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Minimum headcount. Companies whose headcount we do not hold are excluded when this is set — not knowing a number is not evidence it falls outside the range."
},
"max_employees": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Maximum headcount. Same exclusion of unknown headcounts as min_employees."
},
"funding_stage": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Funding stage, e.g. \"Seed\", \"Series A\", \"Pre Seed\". Spacing, case and hyphens are normalised; a value that matches nothing is rejected with the valid list rather than returning a near-empty result. This is the costliest filter here: a company whose stage we do not hold is excluded rather than guessed at, so it narrows the field twice — once by stage, once by what we know."
},
"require_all_keys": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "When true, only return companies showing EVERY requested signal key in the window (signal stacking) rather than any of them. Default false."
},
"min_weight": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Only count signals worth at least this much, 1-10. Background chatter (event attendance, news mentions, follower drift) sits at 1-2 and dominates an unfiltered result; 3 or 4 searches on substance and is the useful setting. Above 7 you are asking for rare events — funding, acquisitions, shutdowns are seldom what a window contains, because that is how often they happen, not how well we see them. Searching for those usually returns little; watch_company is how you catch them. Default 0 (everything)."
},
"founded_after": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Only companies founded in or after this year, e.g. 2023. Companies whose founding year we do not hold are excluded when this is set, and the result says so."
},
"founded_before": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Only companies founded in or before this year. Same exclusion of unknown founding years as founded_after."
},
"sort": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"most_recent",
"most_active"
],
"description": "most_recent (default) ranks by newest matching signal; most_active by how many matched."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Max companies to return. Default 25, max 100."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}