> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.akta.pro/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

The Headcount Trends API returns employee headcount signals for any company, sourced from LinkedIn. A single request returns the current total employee count, a month-by-month historical headcount series, growth rates over several trailing lookback windows (typically 6, 12, and 24 months), and a breakdown of current headcount by job function such as Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Arts and Design each with its own function-level growth rates.

Headcount growth is one of the more reliable proxies for a private company's trajectory: sustained hiring across functions signals expansion, concentrated growth in a single function (e.g. Sales or Engineering) can signal a shift in go-to-market strategy or product investment, and headcount contraction can be an early signal of a slowdown, restructuring, or distress well before it shows up in public news coverage.

This is a **synchronous GET API**.  Pass a company identifier and receive the full response immediately. The response also reports the credits consumed by the request.

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  This API is synchronous. Results are returned directly in the HTTP response.  No job submission or polling required.
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