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Open research on AI-era hiring.

First-party datasets on hiring, salary, and interview patterns. Published under CC BY 4.0. Cite freely.

Reports

Primary-source datasets, published openly.

Snapshot date, sample size, and company count up front.

Snapshot 2026-05-0437,920 roles856 companiesPublished May 4, 2026

The AI Hiring Filter Doesn't Exist Yet

Cursor is required in 6 jobs out of 37,920 April 2026 postings. ChatGPT in 4. GitHub Copilot in 5. The AI-replaces-jobs narrative isn't showing up in the actual JDs companies publish. AI is the new Excel: pervasive, normalized, and assumed rather than required.

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Snapshot 2026-04-143,502 roles16 companiesPublished April 14, 2026

The AI-Era Hiring Index: 2026 Q2

A snapshot of 3,502 open roles at 16 AI-native and high-growth employers, covering role mix, salary disclosure, remote availability, and skill requirements.

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Four-Leaf operates a nightly job-data pipeline across public ATS feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) for a curated index of AI-native and high-growth employers. These reports aggregate that corpus. We publish the dataset behind every headline number, disclose sample sizes, label any LLM-derived signals as such, and keep the methodology in one place so findings stay reproducible.

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