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What is the best job feed for AI agents in 2026?

2026-09-28

The best job feed for AI agents in 2026 is one that reads roles straight from company career boards, checks them often and hands your agent short records over MCP; Find your role first does that for 8,519 boards on Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby at $9 a month. If you need every employer in every industry instead, a broad aggregator API is the better pick.

So the winner depends on who's searching. This page sorts the options by type and says when I'd pick each.

What kinds of job feeds are there in 2026?

Roughly five. They overlap a bit, and plenty of people use two at once.

When should you pick an aggregator API?

When coverage beats everything else. If you're searching for nursing roles, retail management or government jobs, a lot of those employers don't use Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby at all. An aggregator that pulls from many sources will find them and a career board feed won't.

The tradeoff is distance from the source. Every copy has to be collected, merged and indexed, and the same role can turn up under slightly different titles. For a person browsing, that's a small annoyance. For an agent building a shortlist, it means more deduping and more dead links to check.

When are job board alerts enough?

Honestly, more often than people admit. If you check your email every morning and you're flexible about industry, a saved search on a big job board costs nothing and takes two minutes to set up.

Where they fall short is control. You can't ask an alert a follow up question, and you can't point your agent at it and say "open the five that fit and tell me why." The alert decides what you see and when.

Should you just scrape Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby yourself?

If your list is twenty companies, yes. Those three systems all have public board endpoints, and a small script will do the job in an afternoon.

It turns out the hard part shows up later. You need the list of boards in the first place, and it keeps changing as companies start hiring, stop hiring or switch systems. Then you need a schedule, closed role tracking, dedupe, and history so "new since yesterday" means something. That's a service, and somebody has to keep it running.

When does a direct career board feed make sense?

When you want what the company itself posted, checked often, handed to an agent in a shape it can use. That's the gap Find your role first fills.

Here's what it does, and nothing more:

• Reads 8,519 company boards on Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby. It's not an aggregator.
• Checks every board every two hours, staggered so new roles land continuously. That's dozens of new roles every hour, out of about 250,000 open roles.
• Returns title, company, location, the publication date and the date it first discovered the role, the original posting and apply links, and whether the role has closed.
• Leaves out the job description. Your agent opens the posting itself with its own web tool, so it reads the live page.
• Speaks MCP, with search_jobs, get_job, get_changes and a free get_usage. There's a REST API too.

To be fair about the limit: if a company hires through some other system, it won't be in here. For a search aimed at big enterprises, pair it with an aggregator or alerts.

How do you choose between them?

A few questions sort it out quickly.

Is your target mostly tech companies and startups? A career board feed covers a lot of that ground. Is it mostly large employers outside tech? Start with an aggregator or a job board.

Does an agent do the reading, or do you? Agents do better with short structured records and a real "discovered since" filter. People do fine with a feed of emails.

How much does a repeat cost you? Agents re-run searches constantly. On this feed, roles you've already seen that month are free to re-read and empty searches are free, so a nervous agent double checking its work doesn't eat your allowance.

For more detail on what matters in a feed once an agent is the reader, there's a longer piece on picking a job feed for your AI agent.

How do I set up a job feed for my agent?

1. Sign in with Google at findyourrolefirst.click/account.
2. Subscribe ($9 a month) and create an agent key.
3. Paste one line into your client.

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user jobfeed https://findyourrolefirst.click/mcp --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'

Codex:

export JOBFEED_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY
codex mcp add jobfeed --url https://findyourrolefirst.click/mcp --bearer-token-env-var JOBFEED_API_KEY

Then ask your agent for roles in plain English. The plan covers 3,000 new roles a month, up to 1,000 a day. Cancel anytime, with a refund within 3 days.

Questions

What's the best job feed for AI agents in 2026?

It depends on coverage versus freshness. For wide coverage across every industry, an aggregator API. For fresh roles straight from company career boards, a direct feed like Find your role first, which reads 8,519 Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby boards every two hours and connects over MCP.

Is Find your role first an aggregator?

No. It reads company boards on Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby directly, with no job board or aggregator in between.

Can I use more than one job feed?

Yes, and plenty of people should. A common split is a career board feed for tech companies and startups, plus alerts or an aggregator for employers on other systems.

Why doesn't the feed include job descriptions?

Records stay short so your agent can scan many roles cheaply. When one looks worth reading, the agent opens the original posting with its own web tool and reads the current page.

Does any of these feeds apply for me?

Find your role first doesn't. It finds roles and returns the apply link, and applying stays with you.