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Reddit Signals

Typed B2B signals from 500+ hand-vetted business communities. Pricing revolts, outages, layoffs, and switch announcements, each with verbatim quotes, a resolved company domain, and an honest evidence-strength label. New signals land weekly.

500+

Vetted Communities

15

Signal Subtypes

Weekly

Refresh Cadence

59%

Candidates Rejected in Triage

Social Intelligence15 subtypes · Weekly refresh

What Are Reddit Signals?

Reddit signals turn threads from 500+ hand-vetted business communities, places like r/sysadmin, r/msp, and r/vmware, into typed B2B records your team can act on. AI reads every qualifying thread, extracts the event, classifies it into one of 15 subtypes (customerFeedback, buyingIntent, techAdoption, serviceOutage, pricingChange, and more), and resolves the company being discussed to a verified domain. No provable match, no record. The community list itself is earned: 1,300+ candidate subreddits were probed with live AI triage and 59% were rejected.

Every signal ships with verbatim quotes and a link to the source thread, so every claim is one click from its evidence. Reddit ranges from 'I watched it happen' to 'my cousin heard a rumor,' and the data doesn't flatten that: each record carries an evidence stage (speculative → rumored → reported → confirmed) and a prominence label (core or aside). Set your floor at 'reported' and rumors never touch your pipeline. Signals come in company and contact flavors, with named executives resolved to LinkedIn profiles, and each record keeps a stable ID that updates in place as evidence strengthens. Independent AI audits gate every weekly batch before it ships.

Example Signal Subtypes

customerFeedbackbuyingIntenttechAdoptionserviceOutagepricingChangeproductChangeaccountRestrictionfinancialDistresscybersecurityIncidentlayoffsleadershipChangeacquisitionAnnouncedfundingEventhiringSignalproductLaunch

Data Schema

Reddit Signal Data Schema

Reddit signals are typed records with subtype, evidence stage, prominence, sentiment, verbatim quotes, and a resolved company. This example is a real customerFeedback signal from a production run.

reddit_mentions.schema.json
{
  "signal_id": "c7d41f2a-93b6-4e0d-8a5f-1b2e3c4d5e6f",
  "batch_id": "2026-09-15-00-00-00",
  "signal_type": "reddit-company",
  "signal_subtype": "customerFeedback",
  "detected_at": "2026-09-12T07: 31: 02Z",
  "association": "company",
  "company": {
    "name": "Grammarly",
    "domain": "grammarly.com",  // match on domain
    "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/company/grammarly",  // or match on LinkedIn URL
    "industries": ["Software Development"],
    "employee_count_low": 501,
    "employee_count_high": 1000,
    "description": "AI-powered writing assistance platform..."
  },
  "contact": [],
  "data": {
    "summary": "An enterprise rolled out Grammarly without notice, triggering a leadership mandate to remove it from all endpoints and expedite licensing and training for Microsoft Copilot instead.",
    "stage": "switched",            // evidence ladder: speculative -> rumored -> reported -> confirmed (+ switched for completed moves)
    "prominence": "core",           // core = the thread's subject, aside = passing mention
    "sentiment": "negative",
    "quotes": [
      "They didn't give us a heads up - just started carpet bombing everyone.",
      "leadership wanted the emails nuked, apps ripped off endpoints, and licensing/training for Copilot expedited."
    ],
    "other_companies": [
      { "name": "Microsoft", "role": "switching_to" }
    ],
    "subreddit": "r/sysadmin",
    "source_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/...",
    "post_date": "2026-09-10T18: 12: 44Z"
  }
}
GCS Bucket
gs://autobound-reddit-company-v1/
Formats
JSONL · Parquet
Refresh
Weekly

Applications

What teams build with Reddit Signals

04 documented applications

  1. 01

    Catch Accounts Mid-Decision

    When a renewal triples or a vendor breaks trust, people post, and the thread names names. buyingIntent and customerFeedback signals with a 'switched' or 'confirmed' stage flag accounts actively moving between vendors.

  2. 02

    Competitive Displacement Campaigns

    customerFeedback signals often carry the switch direction (who the account is leaving and who they're moving to) plus the verbatim complaint. That's a displacement play with the objection already written for you.

  3. 03

    Event-Driven Outreach

    serviceOutage, pricingChange, productChange, and cybersecurityIncident signals surface disruptions the moment communities start discussing them, creating timely, specific reasons to reach out.

  4. 04

    Account Risk Monitoring

    financialDistress, layoffs, leadershipChange, and accountRestriction signals give account teams early warning on customers and prospects, each claim labeled by evidence strength so you can act on facts, not rumors.

Measured, Not Estimated

What's actually inside Reddit Signals

Volumes, subtypes, geography, and join-key fill rates audited directly from our production database, so you can verify coverage before you buy.

Measured coverageaudited from production · minimums, not ceilings
55,042
companies with fresh data / month
basis: published baseline
50,205
records created / month
basis: published baseline

Top subtypes

21 total
Use Case44K · 14%
Positive Review41K · 14%
Pain Point37K · 12%
Product Feedback33K · 11%
Buying Intent27K · 9.0%
Brand Reputation25K · 8.2%
Industry Trend22K · 7.2%
Competitor Mention17K · 5.5%
🇺🇸United States12K · 20%
🇬🇧United Kingdom2.5K · 4.2%
🇮🇳India1.8K · 3.0%
🇨🇦Canada1.8K · 3.0%
🇩🇪Germany1.3K · 2.1%
🇫🇷France1.2K · 2.0%
🇦🇺Australia889 · 1.5%
CA 5.1KNY 2.9KTX 1.9KFL 1.6KIL 1.0KMA 932

Top industries

all industries
Retail1.7K · 2.8%
Software Development1.3K · 2.2%
Food and Beverage Services1.1K · 1.9%
Government Administration1.1K · 1.8%
Non-Profit Organizations970 · 1.6%
Hospitals and Health Care941 · 1.6%
Restaurants919 · 1.5%

Join keys

fill rate
Domain100%
LinkedIn URL65%
Company name100%
Records measured 301,231+Companies reached 59,744+Full schema & examples →

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Worked Example

One signal, traced to outcome

One Reddit Signals record followed from detection, through the action a rep took on it, to the measured result. Illustrative composite of observed customer workflows.

01 signal → 02 action → 03 outcome

01

Signal detected

A confirmed, core customerFeedback signal from r/sysadmin: an enterprise account rips Grammarly off every endpoint after an unannounced rollout, with leadership expediting a switch to Microsoft Copilot, verbatim quotes attached.

02

Action taken

A writing-assistance competitor's rep targets similar accounts with the exact objection from the thread: unannounced enterprise rollouts breaking IT trust, positioning their admin-controlled deployment as the fix.

03

Outcome

Outreach lands

Because it names the specific, publicly documented pain, not a generic pitch, while the account is actively re-evaluating vendors.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Reddit signals?
Reddit signals are typed B2B records extracted from 500+ hand-vetted business subreddits. AI reads qualifying threads, classifies each event into one of 15 subtypes (customerFeedback, buyingIntent, techAdoption, serviceOutage, pricingChange, and more), resolves the company to a verified domain, and attaches verbatim quotes plus a link to the source thread. Signals are delivered at both the company and contact level.
How does Autobound keep Reddit signals accurate?
Three ways. The community universe is vetted: 1,300+ candidate subreddits were probed with live AI triage and 59% were rejected. The resolver abstains rather than guesses: if 'Grammarly' can't be provably matched to grammarly.com, no record ships. And every signal carries an honest evidence stage (speculative → rumored → reported → confirmed) and a prominence label (core or aside), with independent AI audits gating every weekly batch.
How often do new Reddit signals arrive?
Weekly. Each batch is audited before it ships, and every signal keeps a stable ID that updates in place if the evidence strengthens, so a rumor that gets confirmed upgrades the same record instead of duplicating it. Delivery is via API, GCS push, or flat file.
How should I use Reddit data in my outreach?
Never cite Reddit threads directly in outreach. Use the intelligence to inform positioning: if signals show a competitor's customers revolting over pricing or a botched rollout, build your messaging around that specific pain. Filter to 'reported' or 'confirmed' stage signals before acting so rumors never drive your pipeline.

How It Works

From Raw Data to Your Stack

Autobound ingests from LinkedIn API, Glassdoor, GitHub, Reddit, G2, extracts structured signals with AI, and delivers them however your infrastructure needs.

01

Autobound Ingests

Raw data from LinkedIn API, Glassdoor, GitHub, Reddit, G2 is continuously collected and normalized across millions of sources.

02

AI Extracts & Scores

ML models extract 15 signal subtypes with relevance scoring, confidence levels, and entity resolution.

03

You Receive

Structured JSONL delivered via your preferred method, updated on a weekly cadence.

REST API

Real-time access with subtype filtering

300 req/min

GCS Push

Automated delivery to your bucket

JSONL + Parquet

Enrich API

On-demand LLM-ranked insights

AI relevance scoring

Flat File

Bulk exports for data warehouses

CSV, JSON, Parquet
3 vendors consolidated
By consolidating three data vendors into Autobound's Enrich API, we added 100+ new signal types and saved 4 months of engineering time.

AiSDR Team

Engineering, AiSDR

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