Apify Companies Using Ashby

Companies That Use Ashby, as a Live Directory

A query or a prospect list in, live-verified companies on Ashby out, each with its board URL and a current open-jobs count.

When to use this skill

• Someone asks which companies use Ashby, for a lead list, market map, or recruiting target list.
• You have a prospect list and need to know who hires through Ashby before pointing a jobs pipeline at them.
• You want hiring as a buying signal: companies on Ashby skew to funded, fast-growing startups, and open-roles counts show where headcount is going.
• You need to verify one company: does it have an Ashby job board at all, and what is the board URL?

Not for: pulling the job postings themselves. Use the companion apify-ashby-jobs-scraper skill, built on the same Actor but shaped for job rows with salary data. See references/actor-index.md.

What you get

One dataset row per company. resultType separates company rows from error rows.

• companyName: the company's name from the bundled directory.
• boardToken: the board slug, the last path segment of the board URL.
• boardUrl: the public jobs.ashbyhq.com board.
• jobCount: live open roles at verification time.
• live: whether the board answered the probe (null when verification is off).
• verifiedAt, scrapedAt (ISO timestamps)

A not-found check returns an error row with errorCode: board_not_found, a plain errorMessage, and didYouMean: the closest known board slugs.

The Actor ships a companies dataset view that puts name, slug, open jobs, live flag, and the board link on screen in that order.

Prerequisites

• Apify account (sign up at https://apify.com?fpr=9n7kx3&fp_sid=skillrepo).
• Authentication via apify login, or an APIFY_TOKEN environment variable (Apify Console, Settings, Integrations).

The Actor

• Store page: https://apify.com/johnvc/ashby-job-board-scraper?fpr=9n7kx3&fp_sid=skillrepo
• Actor ID: johnvc/ashby-job-board-scraper
• Pricing: pay per event, no start fee; a discovered company row is its own cheap event. See references/gotchas.md for the live-price command.

Run it with the Apify CLI

The hundred biggest Ashby boards, live-verified:

apify actors call "johnvc/ashby-job-board-scraper" -i '{"outputMode":"companiesOnly","maxCompanies":100}' \
  --json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-companies-using-ashby \
  2>/dev/null

Narrow the directory by name, for a themed list:

apify actors call "johnvc/ashby-job-board-scraper" -i '{"outputMode":"companiesOnly","discoveryQuery":"ai","maxCompanies":50}' \
  --json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-companies-using-ashby \
  2>/dev/null

Check a prospect list by plain company names, misses included:

apify actors call "johnvc/ashby-job-board-scraper" -i '{"companies":["Black Semiconductor","Morse Micro","Ramp","Notarealcompany Xyz"],"outputMode":"companiesOnly"}' \
  --json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-companies-using-ashby \
  2>/dev/null

Confirm the live schema and prices before a large batch:

apify actors info "johnvc/ashby-job-board-scraper" --json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-companies-using-ashby \
  2>/dev/null

Read the rows back from a finished run:

apify datasets get-items <DATASET_ID> --format json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-companies-using-ashby \
  2>/dev/null

Every call carries the three flags this repo expects: --json (or --format json), --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-companies-using-ashby, and 2>/dev/null.

Run it from Claude or another AI agent (MCP)

The Actor is MCP-ready. Add the hosted server URL:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=actors,docs,johnvc/ashby-job-board-scraper

Then ask, for example: "Which of these twenty companies hire through Ashby, and how many roles does each have open right now?" MCP setup docs: https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp

Workflow

1. Decide which question you are asking. A market map starts from the directory (discoveryQuery plus maxCompanies); a prospect check starts from your own companies list.
2. For prospect checks, pass names the way you know them. The Actor tries slug spellings automatically ("Black Semiconductor" finds blacksemiconductor) and returns didYouMean suggestions on a miss.
3. Keep verifyCompanies on. Live probing is what makes jobCount current and keeps dead boards out of your list, and skipped dead boards are never billed.
4. Sort by jobCount downstream. Open-roles count is the growth signal; a two-job board and a two-hundred-job board are different prospects.
5. To go from companies to their postings, hand the boardToken values to the companion apify-ashby-jobs-scraper skill.
6. Re-run monthly rather than caching. Boards appear and die; the whole point of the live probe is freshness.

Inputs

• outputMode: set companiesOnly for this workflow.
• companies (array): your own prospect list; names, slugs, or board URLs.
• discoveryQuery (string): case-insensitive text match over directory names and slugs.
• verifyCompanies (boolean, default true): live-probe each candidate; dead boards are skipped and never billed.
• maxCompanies (integer, default 25): the primary cap for directory sweeps.
• maxConcurrency (integer, default 5): parallel probes.

Cost

A verified company row is a single cheap company-row event, and there is no start fee, so checking a fifty-name prospect list costs well under a cent. Dead directory entries and misses on your own list are never billed as companies. Confirm live prices with the info command above.

Suggested confirmation thresholds: mention the estimate under about $5, warn over $5, confirm over $20. At this event's price you will rarely leave the first bracket.

Honest limits

• The bundled directory covers 2,700 plus verified boards found in public web archives. It is refreshed with releases and re-probed live at run time, but a company that launched its board yesterday may not be in the directory yet; a direct check by name still finds it.
• Company names come from the directory. A board not in the directory returns its slug as the name.
• One company can run multiple boards under different slugs; each slug is its own row.
• Public board presence only. This says a company hires through Ashby; it says nothing about contract value, seats, or tenure.

Troubleshooting

• board_not_found on a name you know is right: read didYouMean, or find the company's careers page and paste the jobs.ashbyhq.com URL it links to.
• Empty sweep: your discoveryQuery matched nothing; loosen it or drop it to take the largest boards first.
• jobCount null with live null: verification was turned off; the row is a directory snapshot, not a live read.
• Slow runs on big sweeps: raise maxConcurrency toward 10, or lower maxCompanies.

See references/gotchas.md for cost guardrails and error recovery, and references/actor-index.md for the Actor routing table.

Related Actors

• Greenhouse Job Board API (companies using Greenhouse): https://apify.com/johnvc/greenhouse-job-board-api?fpr=9n7kx3&fp_sid=skillrepo
• Crunchbase Company API: https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api?fpr=9n7kx3&fp_sid=skillrepo
• LinkedIn Company API: https://apify.com/johnvc/linkedin-company-api?fpr=9n7kx3&fp_sid=skillrepo
• PitchBook Company API: https://apify.com/johnvc/pitchbook-company-api?fpr=9n7kx3&fp_sid=skillrepo