# Zinin M2M Hub – Hiring Trend Index

> Zinin M2M Hub – Hiring Trend Index is a paid API for AI agents from api.timzinin.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Returns current open role counts and hiring trend deltas for a company on a specific job board, broken down by function (engineering, sales, support, other)

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.timzinin.com/api/hiring-trend-index?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zinin-m2m-hub-hiring-trend-index-862d4040
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ijcwxwXdau6KCzH1bwXrL

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 zinin-m2m-hub-hiring-trend-index-862d4040 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Check the hiring trend index for GitLab on Greenhouse — how many total roles are open right now, and is engineering headcount up, down, or flat compared to baseline?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, per-function hiring data for a specific company on a specific job board (e.g. Greenhouse, Lever) with a quantitative delta from a stored baseline. Prefer it over generic web scraping when you need clean JSON output with trend direction signals and function-level breakdowns for competitive intelligence, investor diligence, or recruiting research workflows.

## Known failure modes

- Company or slice token not found on the specified job board — 'found: false' with an error message
- Invalid or malformed slice token format causing a parse error
- Job board source temporarily unavailable or rate-limited
- No baseline established yet for the slice — 'baselineCreated: false' with zero delta
- Stale data if the job board has not been re-crawled recently

## How this service works

Pay-per-call data & tool APIs

## Output

A JSON object with a results array containing: total open roles, per-function counts (engineering, sales, support, other), delta from a stored baseline, direction ('up'/'flat'/'down'), a human-readable summary, the check timestamp, the source job board, and metadata including run time in milliseconds and settlement confirmation.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "slices": {
   "type": "array",
   "maxItems": 10
  },
  "watch_key": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "new_window_days": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 365,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "meta": {
   "run_ms": 1200,
   "settled": true,
   "item_count": 1
  },
  "results": [
   {
    "error": "",
    "found": true,
    "slice": "company:greenhouse:gitlab",
    "token": "greenhouse:gitlab",
    "trend": {
     "other": {
      "delta": 0,
      "current": 21,
      "baseline": 21,
      "direction": "flat"
     },
     "sales": {
      "delta": 0,
      "current": 34,
      "baseline": 34,
      "direction": "flat"
     },
     "support": {
      "delta": 0,
      "current": 30,
      "baseline": 30,
      "direction": "flat"
     },
     "engineering": {
      "delta": 0,
      "current": 55,
      "baseline": 55,
      "direction": "flat"
     }
    },
    "source": "greenhouse",
    "partial": false,
    "summary": "\"company:greenhouse:gitlab\": 183 open role(s) now (+0 since last check).",
    "checkedAt": "2026-07-30T11:28:31.999Z",
    "sliceKind": "company",
    "byFunction": {
     "other": 21,
     "sales": 34,
     "support": 30,
     "engineering": 55
    },
    "missingSlices": [],
    "totalOpenRoles": 183,
    "baselineCreated": false,
    "totalOpenRolesDelta": 0,
    "totalOpenRolesBaseline": 183
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/zinin-m2m-hub-hiring-trend-index-862d4040/health.json
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