Whether the morning dispatch is running, and what's shipped lately.
Sep 2026
Jobs straight from the source — 208 employers and counting. In early September our upstream job-search source put up a wall that cut our daily sample roughly in half (the dip is visible in the report's trend charts from Sep 2). Rather than lean on an aggregator, Daybreak now reads openings directly from employers' own hiring systems — the registry grew from 83 to 208 verified employers — Fortune-500 companies, hospital systems, pharma, universities, insurers, defense contractors, utilities, and logistics — plus federal roles straight from the official USAJOBS API and a set of free public job boards. Direct-from-employer listings are fresher and can't be walled off, and a weekly discovery pass keeps finding new employers to add. A watchdog now emails the maintainer the same morning any source goes dark.
Aug 2026
Did it go anywhere? The digest now asks. A few days after you mark a role a good fit, your digest quietly follows up: did it turn into an interview, are you waiting to hear back, or did you pass? One tap each, same as all feedback — and it only asks about roles you liked, at most twice per digest, never twice about the same role. Interviews are the truest signal a job-matcher can get: they tell us which matches carry real weight, and they tune everyone's digests.
Aug 2026
Big employers can't hide jobs in the crowd anymore. A subscriber spotted a role that should have matched but never arrived, and the trail led to three quiet gaps: our direct company feeds only read each employer's newest hundred postings (the biggest employers post more than that in a day, so their overflow vanished); postings listed at "3 Locations" carried no usable city; and smaller satellite towns near a metro weren't on our map at all. All three are fixed — feeds now read each employer's full day of postings, multi-site roles recover their primary city, and towns like Frederick or Rockville now count as the commutable places they are.
Aug 2026
The junior ceiling now reads the listing's own level. Last month we taught the matcher that asking for junior work means senior-titled roles don't match. This week's feedback closed the loophole: a role whose title carries no level marker but whose listing is tagged senior by the source now gets the same treatment. If you asked for entry-level, "Senior Level" metadata keeps it out of your digest.
Aug 2026
Open to relocation — go where the jobs are. A new profile option for people willing to move: turn it on and on-site roles from anywhere in the US become eligible (your commute radius stops filtering them out — local roles keep only a small edge). Where pay is disclosed, matches note how far the salary actually goes in that city, using the same cost-of-living and state-tax data behind the market report's "spendable salary" view. Clearly labeled: it changes your matching to no longer prioritize local work.
Jul 2026
"Junior" now means junior. This week's feedback pass taught the matcher that a search term like “Junior Security Engineer” declares a level, not just a field: senior-marked roles (Sr., Lead, Principal, or numbered levels like II) no longer match subscribers who explicitly asked for junior or entry-level work.
Jul 2026
Perks can't make a match, and specialties must line up. This week's feedback pass closed two gaps: a role with no real title relevance could previously stack enough points from perks alone — remote, right level, a stray skill keyword, disclosed pay — to reach a digest. Now perks only rank genuine matches; they never create one. And a matched word wearing an unfamiliar specialty in front of it (think “Application Security” when you asked for cloud security) no longer counts as title relevance.
Jul 2026
One-tap feedback, richer intel, cover letters. The "was this a fit?" links now record themselves the moment you land — no confirm button — and a thumbs-down offers a one-tap "what was off?" refine. Company intel adds real H1B salary disclosures, official WARN layoff filings, and Levels.fyi, with pay links pre-filled for the role. Tailoring can now draft a cover letter (same no-fabrication rules), and an "email me this kit" button saves your draft from vanishing with the tab.
Jul 2026
A deeper sample and a smarter market report. The daily pull now reads five pages deep per search again (the sample jumped ~50% on Jul 8), and the market report gained four new reads on the data: what share of postings disclose pay, how remote pay compares with onsite, which weekdays employers actually post, and how fresh the day's listings are. Trend arrows also pause themselves with an honest note when the sample shifts, instead of showing a misleading swing.
Jul 2026
One keyword no longer makes a match. This week's feedback pass tightened title matching again: a single overlapping word (say, “delivery” or “platform”) could previously earn enough credit to float an unrelated role into your digest. Now a role has to match the substance of what you asked for — a full phrase or most of a search term — or it's out, no matter how good the location and level look.
Jun 2026
Better matches, tuned from your feedback. Every match now has a one-tap “good fit / not for me” (and “wrong: level · location · comp”). We read it every week and adjust the matching — this week's pass cut a class of off-target roles that were scoring too high, so fewer wrong-domain jobs slip through. Tell us when one misses and it makes everyone's matches sharper.
Jun 2026
Roles straight from employers. Daily matches now pull directly from hundreds of companies' own hiring systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday — Fortune 500 included), alongside the existing feed. More roles, and they keep coming even if one source has an off day.
Jun 2026
Your first matches in seconds. Confirm your email and your welcome digest now arrives right away — scored against every role open that morning — instead of waiting for the next day's run.
Jun 2026
Company intel, before you apply. Each match now has a "Company intel" link — a one-page hub of open-source research on that employer (SEC filings, layoffs.fyi, pay data, news, reviews, careers), each pre-filled with the company name. Links open in your own browser; we never fetch or store anything.