About Inroads
We've been in tech for 25+ years. Hired hundreds of people, been hired ourselves, watched thousands of job searches play out. And the pattern is always the same.
People hire people they know. That's it. Referred candidates get hired at 4-5x the rate of cold applicants. (source) Most companies pay their employees $1,000 to $10,000+ for referrals that lead to a hire. Your friend gets a bonus, you get a job. Both people win.
Your connections aren't sitting around watching their company's job board. They have no idea what's open. If you asked them about a specific role though? They'd probably be happy to help.
So we built a tool that watches for you. You tell us who you know and where they work, we monitor those companies' actual career pages, and when something relevant opens up, you know about it. Then you reach out to your person with a real ask: "Hey, I saw your company is hiring for X. Would you be open to referring me?"
That's it. That's the whole idea.
How it works
Tell us who you know
Type in some names and where they work. Or upload your contacts from LinkedIn, Google, Outlook, wherever. Takes about a minute. It's your data. You can add, edit, delete, or merge contacts anytime.
We watch their companies
We connect directly to the actual career pages. Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, and 20+ other platforms where jobs get posted first. Not aggregators. The real source.
We score and rank for you
Every job gets scored based on what you care about. Salary, seniority, domain, location, how senior your contact is there. Your best opportunities float to the top.
You reach out
Now you have a reason to message someone. Specific role, specific company, specific ask. That's how people actually get hired.
Pulse
Not all companies are created equal. When you're weighing whether to ask your contact for a referral, it helps to know if the company is actually a good place to work.
Pulse is our proprietary workplace assessment. We built a wildly agentic AI system — InroadsAI — that continuously evaluates companies across culture, compensation, work-life balance, leadership, and more. The result is a simple, intuitive read on each company. No raw numbers. No rankings. Just a clear sense of what it's actually like to work there.
We currently cover tens of thousands of companies across every major industry. Beyond workplace character, Pulse surfaces unique hiring signals you can't find anywhere else — like salary transparency, remote flexibility, and how quickly companies move to fill roles.
You can explore companies right now — no sign-in required. When you're logged in, you'll see Pulse alongside every job match, so you know which opportunities are worth your time.
What's this cost?
Nothing. We built this for ourselves because we were tired of the same old job search grind. The infrastructure costs next to nothing to run, so we figured why not let other people use it too.
If it helps you land something, that's awesome. If not, no worries. We're not selling anything.
Got ideas? Found a bug?
We're always tinkering with this. If you think of something that would make it more useful, let us know.