Curated by a practitioner, not an algorithm.
The Signal exists because HR leaders don't need more news. They need to know what the news means — from someone with no vendor to please.
The curator
Alex Rivera has spent 15 years inside enterprise HR technology — running migrations, rescuing broken implementations, and advising leadership teams on HR systems and AI strategy. That experience is the filter: every item in The Signal has been read, judged, and placed in context by someone who has sat on the buyer's side of the table.
The editorial promise
- No vendor pays. Ever. No sponsorships, no affiliate links, no pay-to-rank. If a comparison says a platform is heavy and costly to change, that's because it is.
- Signal over volume. One weekly briefing and occasional deep analysis — not thirty daily alerts competing for your anxiety.
- Judgment included. Every story carries a "so what" for HR leaders. If we can't say why it matters, it doesn't run.
- Free stays free. The weekly briefing is free forever. A Pro tier (deeper analysis and tools) funds the independence — founding subscribers lock the founding rate.
The method
The Signal tracks a wide range of primary and secondary sources across ten domains — vendor announcements, regulatory texts, analyst research, funding data, and practitioner communities. Items make the cut on three tests: Is it real (verifiable, sourced, not vendor theater)? Does it change a decision an HR leader has to make? Can we add judgment beyond restating it? Every briefing item links its sources, and every page shows when it was last updated.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, we say so — corrections run in the next briefing, and the page is fixed with a note. Spot an error? Tell us.
Walk into Monday already knowing.
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