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Employer diligence · before you sign

The company read your resume. Now read theirs.

One brief tells you whether to take the offer, push it, or walk — what the company is really worth, what your role is really worth, and the exact words to ask for more.

No one is contacted. No one knows you looked. Every claim opens to a source.

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The receipts, not the reviews

Glassdoor tells you how people felt. Footnote tells you what's on the record.

Is the seat safe?

Whether the company can actually afford you — the growth, the runway, and whether insiders are quietly heading for the exit.

From the company's own filings

Are you underpaid?

The pay band employers report to the federal government for your exact role and metro — not what strangers typed into a survey.

From certified federal wage filings

What aren't they telling you?

The layoffs, lawsuits, and leadership exits that never make it into the job description.

From the public record

2,143,094
Certified wage filings behind the band
Every claim
Opens to a named source
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Public — judge it yourself

How it works

Three steps to a brief you can act on.

01

Name the company and your offer

Company, role, level, and the numbers on the table. Sixty seconds, no account needed to start.

02

We run the diligence

The same file an acquirer would build before buying the company — sized to your role, your level, and your number.

03

You get a scored, cited brief

A verdict, a comp read, the risks, and a negotiation playbook — every claim footnoted to a source you can open.

What's in a brief

Every brief, one shape. One verdict.

Every brief follows the same structure and the same standard of evidence — assembled for your company, role, and package after checkout.

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§1

The verdict

A 0–100 score and a plain-spoken call — take it, push, or walk.

§2

Compensation

Where your number lands in the real market band, with the gap quantified. At the Executive tier: how they treat equity — actually, not officially.

§3

Company health

Revenue, runway, and burn from filings — is the seat itself safe?

§4

Role-level risk

Layoff exposure, reorg signals, and how your function has fared. Offer tier and above.

§5

The negotiation playbook

The exact asks, the counters, and the words — backed by what you now know.

Included with every brief

Meet Genevieve — the concierge who's read your brief.

Ask her to explain the verdict, draft the counter-offer in your voice, benchmark your number against today's market — or to check back in before the conversation happens. She answers from your brief and live data, not from guesses.

Private by design

Your brief and your conversations with her are never used to train AI models, never shared, and never public.

Members keep her year-round — she watches your comp against the live band and checks in before the moments that matter.

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The math on $199

Priced against the swing, not the page count.

The band for one role in one metro held $54K between its 25th and 75th percentile. That's the room. The brief shows you exactly where it is — and hands you the words to ask for it. Refundable for seven days if it doesn't earn its keep.

Software Developers · California · across 34,547 certified filings · the room, not a promised outcome

“If we can't cite it, we don't say it.”

The Footnote standard · every claim opens to a named public source — and a brief we can't ground doesn't ship

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Know if you're underpaid before you spend a cent.

No account, no card. Enter a company and your number — get your market band and a teaser of the company read in seconds.

Company
Meridian Robotics
Role / level
Staff Eng · L6
Base
$240,000
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A job description is a sales document. Read the filings instead.

Get a clear read on the company, the offer, and the questions worth asking before you sign.