Postings say what is asked.
You know what decides it.
Right now the map stands on 1415 job postings across 17 AI roles in India, read in full and re-read as the market moves, and turned into a free path for anyone who wants one of those jobs. That is the written half. You fill these roles, so you hold the other half: what actually decides the offer, what it closes at, and what is showing up in screens before any board indexes it. I would like that on the map too, with your name on it if you want it there.
Both open your mail app, addressed to me at ask@aryabhattalabs.com, with a few prompts in the body. No form, no login, nothing to sign. If you run a firm, a twenty-minute call is the natural next step; one role is ten minutes.
The map is only as true as the people who correct it. Nobody has yet — you would be the first.
As a firm, or as one person who hires.
Your firm, as a named partner
Start with what the postings miss for the roles you place, and what you would want from the map. Then, if it is worth your time: a monthly read from whoever runs those searches, the JDs you are working forwarded as evidence (counted in the shares, never listed), and the titles you are seeing that I do not track yet.
What you get: your firm named on every role page it corrects and on this one; the drift across all 17 roles before it reaches the postings; the open demand table and the sourced capability lists, free to reuse in your own JDs and client conversations.
No money either way, no exclusivity, no contract. Leave whenever.
You, on one role you hire for
Ten minutes, from whatever address you normally use. Which lines decide the offer, which are décor, what it closes at, what is new in screens — and anything on the page that made you wince. Credited by name, by firm, or not at all; your call, line by line.
Or start from the page itself: every role page has an add your read link that arrives with the role already filled in.
Five things, plainly put.
Plain words are perfect. A two-line answer that is true beats a long one that is tidy, and nothing here is compulsory. A voice note on WhatsApp works too, if we already know each other.
- The role, and at what level — What decides an offer for a fresher is not what decides one for a senior hire.
- What decides it — The two or three things that actually get someone the offer right now.
- What is décor — What sits on the JD and almost never decides anything.
- What it closes at — The band an offer actually lands in, by level. Shown beside the sourced pay bands as a labelled partner signal.
- Why good people still get turned down — The one thing a posting will never say — and the most useful line you can send.
One role at a time is ideal — what decides an offer for a data analyst is not what decides one for an ML engineer. If you hire across several, send several.
Read, weighted, shown.
A read never overwrites the postings. It sits beside them, weighted by how many partners say the same thing, and it is always labelled as what it is.
- Read
Per role: which capabilities decide offers, which are décor, what it closes at, what is newly showing up in screens.
- Weighted
Aggregated across partners. One voice nudges a number; several in agreement move it. No single partner can set a figure.
- Shown as a partner signal
Next to the share of postings on the capability, or next to the pay bands, with the source line naming who said so — if they chose to be named.
The measured share stays exactly what it was. The signal is a second, labelled line, never a silent edit.
Two badges, one place.
Shown on the source line and here, nothing else. They cannot be bought and they do not change a number.
Nobody holds one yet. I have no partners today, so these describe what is on offer, not who has taken it up — the first firm to send a read is named here before anywhere else.
A firm that gave a read on a role before its first public refresh. Named on that role’s source line for as long as the page exists, and here.
Sends a monthly read on at least one role. Named on that role’s source line while the read stays current.