Pick by task
Each guide answers one question a recruiter or TI analyst actually asks. Don't read around — find the right guide and open it.
Work the steps
Every guide has a 7-step workflow, copyable templates, and guardrails for when AI output needs human review.
Cross-reference
Guides link to each other where tasks overlap. Comp benchmarks live in Guide 01, Step 5 — and are reused everywhere else.
Pull a talent supply snapshot
The starting point for most TI requests. Sizes the real talent pool, maps geographic concentration, reads demand signal, benchmarks comp, and synthesizes a verdict a hiring manager can act on. Works for ASIC, chiplet, RF, MLops, and anything adjacent.
Run a competitor talent analysis
Map where your direct, talent, and aspirational competitors are drawing from. Find the clusters, understand movement patterns, and identify whitespace before a search.
Open guideMap a talent pool for a new market
Evaluate a new location for engineering hiring: capability density, policy friction, economic gravity, sovereign constraints. Uses the Five-Lens Framework for semiconductor and AI roles.
Open guideBuild a skills-based talent map
Decompose a role into its skill tree, identify adjacent pools, and find candidates who have the capability without the exact title. Built for chiplet, RF, MLops, and other thin-pool specializations.
Open guideSet up an always-on intelligence cadence
Move from reactive lookups to a living intelligence system. Weekly signal monitors, monthly market snapshots, quarterly competitor refreshes. Structured around Culshaw's living-document principle.
Open guideBrief a hiring manager with market data
Convert raw market data into a conversation a hiring manager can act on. Covers tension reframes, timeline anchoring, comp calibration scripts, and the written commit doc that closes the loop.
Open guideBuild vs buy location strategy brief
Frame a location decision for leadership: build local capability, buy it via acqui-hire, partner through a GCC, or relocate. Four pathways, Five-Lens scoring, interactive recommender.
Open guideTalent pipeline health check
A dashboard-format audit of pipeline quality: coverage by role, source concentration, aging, and stage flow. Toggle healthy vs at-risk. Built for quarterly reviews.
Open guideDefine the real role
Light moduleSize the pool
Shared moduleMap geo concentration
Light module — 26KB standaloneRead demand signal
Deep diveBenchmark comp
Shared moduleAssess movability
Deep divePick by situation
Match your task to the right starting point.
| Your situation | Start here |
|---|---|
| "We're opening a req for a chiplet architect — how hard is this hire?" | Guide 01 — Supply snapshot |
| "Where is Broadcom hiring its RF engineers from and where are they losing them?" | Guide 03 — Competitor analysis |
| "Should we hire MLops in Austin or set up a presence in Bangalore?" | Guide 04 — New market mapping |
| "There's no one with the exact title — can we find people with the skills?" | Guide 05 — Skills-based map |
| "I'm spending 3 hours pulling data every time we have a req — how do I systematize this?" | Guide 06 — Always-on cadence |
| "The hiring manager keeps rejecting candidates for salary — how do I turn this conversation around?" | Guide 2.1 — Hiring manager brief |
| "I want to look at geographic concentration for one specific role, fast." | Step 3 — Geo concentration map |
| "Leadership wants to know: open an eng site in this location, or acquire a team instead?" | Guide 3.1 — Build vs buy |
| "It's quarterly review week and I need to show whether the pipeline is actually healthy." | Guide 3.2 — Pipeline health check |