LayoffAlert

LayoffAlert tells you a company is cutting before the company does.

Most layoff trackers are news aggregators: something is announced, they record it, you read about it afterwards. That is too late to be useful for anything except a headline. The interesting data is upstream - US employers must legally file a WARN notice with the state before a mass layoff, usually 60 days ahead, and those filings are public the day they land.

So the tools follow the signal rather than the story. search_warn_notices surfaces filings from the eight states scraped daily. get_recent_layoffs covers announced events with headcounts and per-industry totals already summed. get_company_layoffs puts a single company's history, its filings and its AI risk score in one response - because the history alone reads as calm when a notice went in last week, which is precisely the case worth catching.

The watchlist is where it becomes personal: fifteen companies, each triggering an email the moment they file, plus a Monday digest. An agent can add to it mid-conversation - "watch every company that filed in Texas this month" - which is the thing a dashboard is genuinely bad at.

One deliberate design decision runs through all of it: every response states its own limits. Only eight states are scraped, so a query about Florida says so rather than returning an empty list an agent would read as safety. Events default to confirmed. Risk scores are labelled predictions. Layoff data gets repeated as fact, and a tool that lets an agent state a coverage gap as an all-clear is worse than no tool.

Full product at www.layoffalert.io.