# Gloom Finance Terminal - Hiring/Building Activity by Symbol

> Gloom Finance Terminal - Hiring/Building Activity by Symbol is a paid API for AI agents from api.gloom.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.24/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-01).

Retrieves hiring and building activity data for a given stock symbol, showing recent and historical job posting windows to gauge company growth signals.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.gloom.sh/v1/hiring/building/%7Bsymbol%7D?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.24/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/gloom-finance-terminal-hiring-building-activity-by-symbol-687ed4e2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_KQcepnm_Z6g77b8KVpRP4

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability gloom-finance-terminal-hiring-building-activity-by-symbol-687ed4e2
```

Example prompt: Pull up the recent hiring and building activity for General Motors (symbol: GM) from Gloom — I want to see whether they've been ramping up or slowing down on job postings over the past few weeks.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need alternative data signals on a publicly traded company's workforce expansion or contraction, particularly job posting velocity as a leading indicator for revenue or growth. Prefer this over traditional financial data endpoints when conducting sentiment or momentum analysis based on labor market activity rather than reported financials.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized ticker symbol returns empty or null data
- Symbol with no hiring data tracked returns skipped array with all periods
- Payment failure (402) if USDC payment is not properly submitted
- Rate limiting if too many requests are made in quick succession
- Stale data if the company has not posted jobs recently, resulting in empty window arrays

## How this service works

Gloom is a free, open-source finance terminal for desktop and TUI with charts, news, filings, portfolios, alerts, and plugins.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the company name, the week date analyzed, the stock symbol, a window object containing arrays of recent and before (historical) job posting data points, and a list of any skipped periods where data was unavailable. The 'held' field may be null if no held data exists.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "held": null,
   "name": "General Motors",
   "week": "2026-10-12",
   "symbol": "GM",
   "window": {
    "before": [
     {}
    ],
    "recent": [
     {}
    ]
   },
   "skipped": []
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/gloom-finance-terminal-hiring-building-activity-by-symbol-687ed4e2/health.json
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