Integrations
LayoffSignal
Layoff/RIF signal tracker over free public RSS — surfaces recent layoff news as a poach trigger. Key gotcha: results are redirect links only; resolve them with Firecrawl.
Reach for LayoffSignal when the trigger is "company is cutting staff": sweep the last 7 days of tech layoffs or scope a named employer, then poach displaced talent and open BD with the survivors. A Hyreflow Native built on free public RSS — no API key.
Native (free, no BYOK) — first-party capability on free public RSS; 0 credits under current pricing, and the provider-precedence waterfall does not apply.
Capabilities
| Tool | Does | Cost |
|---|---|---|
layoff_news | Pre-built layoff-terms Google News query; pass company to scope, when for recency | Free |
google_news | Raw Google News RSS search with full operators (site:, OR, intitle:, -) | Free |
iter_layoff_news | Whole-stream sweep: broad query + per-company + site feeds | Free |
site_feed / site_feeds | Fetch publisher RSS/Atom feeds → clean direct links | Free |
resolve_link | Best-effort follow a redirector → publisher URL | Free |
Guidance
- Discovery returns links only — fetch article bodies separately.
google_news/layoff_newslinks are Google News redirectors, so hand them to Firecrawl (it follows the redirect and returns the body) or tryresolve_link. - Prefer per-site feeds for clean links:
site_feed()gives direct publisher URLs with no redirector to resolve. Paywalled outlets (Bloomberg/Reuters) only surface viagoogle_news. - Use
when=for recency (7d/24h/1h);layoff_newsOR-joins layoff terms automatically. - Use it as a signal/trigger, not a redistributed dataset — attribute the originating publisher; don't resell curated databases.
- Recipe: sweep → resolve+fetch bodies (Firecrawl) → Claude extracts
{company, headcount, %, date, location, source}→ dedupe → source affected roles → enrich → outreach/ATS.
hyreflow tools execute layoffsignal layoff_news \
--payload '{"company":"Microsoft","when":"30d"}'Every op is free (0 credits) under current pricing — the feed pull itself costs nothing, so it's safe to sweep broadly, then narrow with company.