# Orbyt

> Orbyt is an AI-native job search CRM and salary intelligence platform. It pairs an application-tracking CRM (AI resume tailoring, interview prep for 723 companies, ATS resume scoring) with a salary data API covering 3,445 US roles across 81 cities, plus growing UK and Canada coverage. Public content and aggregate salary data are CC BY 4.0 with attribution.

This is the short index for LLM crawlers. For the full programmatic snapshot of every role, city, hub, comparison, and URL pattern, see the Full snapshot section at the end.

## Primary surfaces

- [Compare Hub](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/compare): side-by-side comparisons of Orbyt versus other job-search tools.
- [AI Salary Hubs](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/salaries/hubs): salary hubs grouped by role family.
- [Salary Explorer](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/salaries): search salary data by role and city.
- [Free Tools Hub](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/free-tools): free calculators and assessments, no signup.
- [Job Search Hub](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search): the job-search product overview.
- [Career Guides](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides): long-form guides for each stage of the search.
- [AI Skills Lab](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/ai-skills): field notes on AI tools for job seekers and builders.
- [Developer Hub](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/developers): APIs, SDKs, and integration docs.
- [Orbyt API docs](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/developers/orbyt-api): the Jobs product API.
- [Intelligence API docs](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence/api-docs): the salary intelligence API.
- [Support](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/support): help center and contact.
- [Job Search Glossary](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary): defined job-search terms.
- [Intelligence Glossary](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence/glossary): defined salary-intelligence terms.
- [Developer Glossary](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/developers/glossary): defined API terms.

## Job search by situation

Orbyt Jobs, written for a specific moment in a career rather than for a generic job seeker. Each page covers the pressures of that situation and the parts of the product built for it.

- [Job Search Hub](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search): all fifteen situations in one place.
- [Career Changers](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/career-changers): job search for career changers.
- [Burned-Out Job Seekers](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/burned-out): job search for burned-out job seekers.
- [Recently Laid Off](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/laid-off): job search for recently laid off.
- [Executives](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/senior-professionals): job search for executives.
- [Remote Job Seekers](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/remote-workers): job search for remote job seekers.
- [New Graduates](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/new-graduates): job search for new graduates.
- [After the Cuts](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/tech-workers): job search for after the cuts.
- [Seasoned](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/over-40): job search for seasoned.
- [Veterans](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/veterans): job search for veterans.
- [Returning Parents](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/returning-parents): job search for returning parents.
- [Visa Holders](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/visa-holders): job search for visa holders.
- [Teachers](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/teachers): job search for teachers.
- [Replaced by AI](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/ai-displaced): job search for replaced by ai.
- [Healthcare Workers](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/healthcare-workers): job search for healthcare workers.
- [Sales Professionals](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search/sales): job search for sales professionals.

## Career guides

Twelve long-form career guides, one per stage or crisis point of a modern job search. Each carries a table of contents, a TL;DR of quotable facts, FAQ answers written to stand alone, and links to the deeper playbooks it curates. All free to read, no signup.

- Career Guides Hub (all twelve in one place): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides
- The Complete Job Search Guide (everything you need to land your next role. From organizing your pipeline to negotiating your offer): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/job-search
- Interview Preparation Guide (how to research companies, practice questions, and walk into every interview with confidence): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/interview-prep
- Resume Optimization Guide (how to build, tailor, and optimize your resume for ATS systems and human reviewers): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/resume
- Severance & Layoff Guide (the moment you were never supposed to need): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/severance
- The Layoff Playbook (what to say. What to ask. What to sign zero of. The tactical playbook for the meeting that just blindsided you. Three sentences in the room): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/layoff-playbook
- Your First Job After College (2026 is the worst entry-level market in a generation. Ghost jobs. AI résumé screening. 500 applications for zero interviews): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/gen-z-first-job
- The Eight-Minute Interview (when they fly you out and can't spare eight minutes, that's the answer): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/eight-minute-interview
- The Job Offer Guide (the offer is the leverage peak of your entire search. Evaluate the letter, run the total comp math, model the equity, and counter once with data): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/job-offer
- How to Get a Job After a Layoff (you did not fail. The role got cut): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/job-after-layoff
- Red Flags After the Offer (the offer is not the finish line. It is where a company stops selling and shows you who it is): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/vetting-an-employer-after-the-offer
- How to Negotiate Salary (the tactical salary-negotiation playbook, with estimated pay ranges for 3,445 roles as your starting anchor): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/salary-negotiation
- The Technical Interview Guide (live coding, take-home assignments, system design, and case-study interviews, explained one format at a time): https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides/technical-interview

## Ground Control, the Orbyt publication

Justin Bartak's writing on AI native building, agent organizations, product design, engineering and the job search. Every article is canonical to Orbyt, carries a publication date and a last updated date, and states how to cite it on the page. The full snapshot at the end lists every article with its own summary.

- [Ground Control](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog): the publication, newest first.
- [AI-Native](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog/pillar/ai): how the models behave and what changes when a new one ships.
- [AI Agents](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog/pillar/agents): long horizon agents, how they are run, fenced and verified.
- [AI Engineering](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog/pillar/engineering): building software with AI in the loop.
- [AI Product](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog/pillar/product): product decisions in an AI native company.
- [AI Design](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog/pillar/design): design as strategy rather than decoration.
- [AI Strategy](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog/pillar/strategy): what AI changes about defensibility and speed.
- [AI Leadership](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog/pillar/leadership): running a company where agents do the work.
- [AI Build](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog/pillar/build): Orbyt built in 32 days, in order, as a sequence.
- [Jobs in the AI Era](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog/pillar/jobs): the job search itself, for people doing one now.

## Free arcade games

Five free, no-signup retro browser games, one per stage of the broken hiring funnel. The jokes aim at the system, never the job seeker; you play the Claude mascot.

- [Orbyt Arcade hub](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/arcade): the games hub.
- [Resume Invaders](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/arcade/resume-invaders): fire resumes at the ATS and ghosting recruiters.
- [Ghosted](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/arcade/ghosted): out-run the recruiters who never wrote back.
- [The Climb](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/arcade/the-climb): scale the career ladder to the offer.
- [The Offer](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/arcade/the-offer): climb out of the hiring stack, then negotiate your number.
- [Application Runner](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/arcade/application-runner): hop your application across the hiring funnel to the offer.

## Public APIs (CC BY 4.0, attribution required)

- [Compare Hub JSON](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/api/v1/compare): machine-readable compare data.
- [AI Salary Hub JSON](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/api/v1/intelligence/salaries/hubs/{hub-slug}): per-hub salary data.
- [Orbyt API OpenAPI spec](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/openapi.yaml): the Jobs API contract.
- [Orbyt Intelligence OpenAPI spec](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/openapi-intelligence.yaml): the Intelligence API contract.
- [MCP manifest (Orbyt API)](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/mcp.json): MCP tool manifest for the Jobs API.
- [MCP manifest (Intelligence)](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/mcp-intelligence.json): MCP tool manifest for Intelligence.
- [Title-to-SOC Crosswalk JSON](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/title-soc-crosswalk.json): 3,445 job titles mapped to BLS SOC occupation codes, with published BLS national medians from the two most recent OES releases (CC BY 4.0, attribution required). Rendered at https://www.orbytlabs.ai/salaries#title-soc-crosswalk.
- [Career Guides Index JSON](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides-index.json): all 12 Orbyt career guides with their sections, the 85 questions they answer, and the 51 steps they publish (CC BY 4.0, attribution required). Rendered at https://www.orbytlabs.ai/guides#guides-index.
- [Interview Prep Coverage Index JSON](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/interview-coverage.json): 723 companies with composed interview question coverage, industries, and per-company prep guide URLs (CC BY 4.0, attribution required). Rendered at https://www.orbytlabs.ai/interview-prep#interview-coverage.
- [Company Salary Index JSON](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/company-salary-index.json): every company on Orbyt's salary pages, including Fortune 500 employers, with industry, the occupations each is known to hire, and the published BLS national median for each occupation from the two most recent OEWS releases. Occupation-level government cells, never company-reported pay, and no modeled number ships in the file (CC BY 4.0, attribution required). Rendered at https://www.orbytlabs.ai/salaries/companies#company-salary-index.
- [Career and Salary Glossary JSON](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary-terms.json): every defined term across the three Orbyt glossaries, original editorial definitions with categories (CC BY 4.0, attribution required). Rendered at https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#glossary-dataset.
- [Orbyt Book Production Ledger JSON](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/book-production-ledger.json): production measurements of Orbyt's AI-coauthored book series, manuscript sizes, chapter counts, drafted editions, and raw build-log aggregates (CC BY 4.0, attribution required). Rendered at https://www.orbytlabs.ai/books/unfair-advantage#book-production-ledger.
- [Ground Control Claim Ledger JSON](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/ground-control-claims.json): every question the Ground Control publication answers as an atomic claim, with who wrote each answer and, for every machine-written one, the exact verbatim passage from the article that supports it (CC BY 4.0, attribution required). Declared as a Dataset on https://www.orbytlabs.ai/blog.
- [Job Search Situation Index](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/job-search-situation-index.json): the 15 job-search situations Orbyt publishes pages for, each with its URL, the pressures it names and the exact questions it answers. CC BY 4.0.

## Intelligence engines

Six engines are designed; TWO serve data today (Role Taxonomy, Skill Premiums). Skill Half-Life, Comp by Stage, Company Signals and Hiring Velocity hold zero records in production. Each deep-dive explains what the engine measures, how it is built, and its honest limitations.

- [Engines hub](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence/engines): how the six engines fit together, and which two currently serve data.
- [AI Role Taxonomy Engine](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence/engines/ai-role-taxonomy): canonical AI role catalog with BLS SOC mapping.

## International coverage

- [International hub](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence/international): US, UK, and Canada under one API contract.
- [United Kingdom](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence/united-kingdom): national AI salary data from ONS ASHE.
- [Canada](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence/canada): city-level AI salary data from ESDC Open Government wages.

## Orbyt Collective

The agent leadership team that runs Orbyt: officers with written charters, a decision log, a promotion ladder, an inspector general and a kill switch, with one human in the loop. It runs at Orbyt today, is not for sale, and is being separated into something another company could adopt.

- [Orbyt Collective](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective): what the collective is, what runs today, and the dated claim behind it.
- [Process](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/process): how work moves through an agent organization, and every place it can be refused. Includes the Orbyt Decision Ledger, every governance decision numbered and dated. Raw JSON: https://www.orbytlabs.ai/decision-ledger.json (CC BY 4.0, attribution required).
- [Leadership](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/leadership): what an agent seat is made of, and the default set that runs Orbyt.
- [The minds we build like](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/influences): the published work the company holds itself against. Influences, not affiliations.
- [The Orbyt Autonomy Ledger](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/autonomy-ledger): the agent org's published run record: completions, failures, review-panel discards, frozen baseline. Raw JSON: https://www.orbytlabs.ai/autonomy-ledger.json (CC BY 4.0, attribution required).
- [How it works](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/how-it-works): the versioned canonical reference for how an AI agent leadership team runs a company: the seats, the run loop, the gates, the brakes, the reviews, the vocabulary, and what the one human alone decides. Includes the Orbyt Failure Corpus, every documented failure mode with its countermeasure. Raw JSON: https://www.orbytlabs.ai/failure-corpus.json (CC BY 4.0, attribution required).

## Orbyt Books

The book series Orbyt's founder is writing together with the AI that helps run the company. Pre-release, coming soon; no edition is on sale yet.

- [Books hub](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/books): the series overview and where to start reading.
- [Cold Start](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/books/cold-start): one founder and one AI building a product with no team.
- [Read the opening of Cold Start](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/books/cold-start/read): the opening of the book, free to read in the browser, no email required.
- [Unfair Advantage](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/books/unfair-advantage): the in-progress book about an AI agent leadership team helping run a company. Includes the Orbyt Book Production Ledger; raw JSON at https://www.orbytlabs.ai/book-production-ledger.json (CC BY 4.0, attribution required).

## Methodology and trust signals

- [Methodology](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence/methodology): how the salary data is built.
- [International methodology](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence/methodology/international): Tier 1 sources, reconciliation, FX handling.
- [Dataset catalog](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence/dataset): the citable dataset entity, DOI, and downloads.
- [Salary data changelog](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/salaries/changelog): dataset release history.
- [Reports methodology](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence/reports/methodology): how the published reports are computed.

## Citation

Please cite as: Orbyt Intelligence, Q2 2024 (BLS OES May 2024 release) (https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-intelligence).

## Full snapshot

- [Full snapshot (llms-full.txt)](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/llms-full.txt): the full programmatic listing of all roles, cities, hubs, comparisons, and URL patterns.
- [Top roles quick reference (llms-roles.txt)](https://www.orbytlabs.ai/llms-roles.txt): the top 50 roles with headline salary numbers.