# Gloom Hiring Momentum API

> Gloom Hiring Momentum API is a paid API for AI agents from api.gloom.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.12/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-01).

Returns hiring momentum data for public companies, including weekly job opening counts and net changes, to signal corporate growth trends.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.gloom.sh/v1/hiring/momentum?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.12/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/gloom-hiring-momentum-api-04432a37
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_-4mr__XHLNKS4my0bfDeq

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-hiring-momentum-api-04432a37
```

Example prompt: What's the latest hiring momentum for Cloudflare — show me their weekly job opening count and any net change from recent weeks?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need alternative data signals on corporate hiring activity for investment research, quantitative screening, or portfolio monitoring. It is particularly useful when you want to correlate job posting trends with stock momentum or identify early-stage growth companies ramping headcount. Prefer this over earnings or revenue data when you want a leading indicator of corporate expansion or contraction.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed properties filter returns empty data array
- Unknown ticker or entity ID returns no results with empty data array
- Payment not attached or insufficient USDC balance returns 402 Payment Required
- Rate limiting or server error returns 5xx with no data
- Stale data if hiring crawl has not yet run for the current week — changePct and netChange may be null

## 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 array of company hiring momentum records, each including the company name, stock ticker symbol, entity ID, sector (if available), mapping confidence score, and a latest weekly snapshot with the reference week date, count of open positions, net change in openings, percentage change, and added/removed job counts.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": [
   {
    "name": "Cloudflare",
    "latest": {
     "week": "2026-09-28",
     "added": null,
     "removed": null,
     "changePct": null,
     "netChange": null,
     "openCount": 6
    },
    "sector": null,
    "symbol": "NET",
    "entityId": "symbol:NET",
    "mappingConfidence": 1
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/gloom-hiring-momentum-api-04432a37/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.gloom.sh](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.gloom.sh/llms.txt)