BounceWatch Signal Intelligence

The latest signals across the whole index: which companies did something recently, what it was, and when. This is the tool for ANY question about what is happening. "Show me the latest signals", "what's new", "which companies raised a round and are now hiring sales in the Netherlands", "who announced expansion in the last two weeks", "which of my target segment just made a key hire". Returns matc

Finds companies by firmographics — country, headcount, funding stage — within the set BounceWatch actively observes, most recently refreshed first. By default it returns only companies we have observed in the last 90 days, so the firmographics you get are backed by recent observation rather than a record we last touched years ago. Each result reports its signal activity, so you can tell a closely

Finds a company in the BounceWatch index by name, and returns its domain — which is what every other company tool needs. Use this whenever you have a company's NAME rather than its domain. Do not guess the domain: a wrong guess comes back as "not indexed" for a company we actually hold, and sends you on to spend a scan on a domain nobody checked. Returns up to a handful of candidates with just e

Firmographic profile of one company from the BounceWatch index: identity, location, headcount, funding history, tech stack, team and competitors. Returns what we currently hold — it never triggers a scan on its own. `coverage` says what monitoring this company is under; if it is not being followed continuously and the answer depends on facts being current, call refresh_company explicitly. For wh

Returns the dated signal timeline for one company: funding, hiring, partnerships, expansion, product launches, leadership changes and risk events. Use this when you already know which company you care about and need to know what has been happening and when. To find companies by signal instead, use search_signals. categories and signal_keys widen each other rather than narrowing to the overlap: a

Queues a fresh scan of one company and returns a batch id to poll with get_refresh_status. Works for companies already in the index and for domains we have never seen, which is how you add one. A scan only refreshes what you ask for, and each module reads a different source. Anything you leave out keeps the date it already had, so pick by the fact you need: signals recent events and annou

Checks a scan queued by refresh_company, and WAITS for it. This call blocks until the scan is done or `wait_seconds` runs out, so you do not have to idle between polls — just call it again if it comes back unfinished. A typical scan needs two or three calls at the default wait. Read `is_finished`, not `status`. A scan reaches `completed` when its jobs report back, but the signal analysis they st

Registers a standing watch on one company, so you find out what happened there without asking again. This is the only tool that persists between sessions. A watched company is kept under continuous monitoring — we keep looking at it for as long as the watch is active, rather than waiting for someone to ask about it. Matching signals are queued for you and collected with check_watches (free). If

Returns what has happened at the companies THIS KEY ALREADY WATCHES, since the last time you asked. This is a personal inbox, not a view of the index. Use it when the question is about continuity — "anything new since last time", "what did I miss", "what fired on my watchlist". If the question is what is happening at companies generally — latest signals, who raised, who is hiring, anything about

Lists every signal type BounceWatch detects, grouped by category, with what each one means and whether it is an announcement or an unconfirmed inference. It also returns `coverage`, which says which categories produce steadily and which are rare by nature. Read it before designing a search: the rarest signals are the highest-value ones — funding, acquisitions, shutdowns — and searching a window f