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# Graph Use Cases

The Market Map is more than a visualization — it is an analytical tool. Here is how different teams extract value from it.

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## Competitive Landscape Mapping

**Goal:** Understand who your competitors are hiring and how your company fits in the market.

**How:**
1. Open the Market Map
2. Search for your company — its cluster highlights
3. Look at **neighboring clusters** — these are companies hiring for similar roles
4. Note cluster sizes — larger clusters = more aggressive hiring

**Insight:** If your cluster is small compared to competitors, you may be losing talent visibility.

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## Identifying Market Gaps

**Goal:** Find underserved areas where there is demand but few quality listings.

**How:**
1. Zoom out to see the full map
2. Look for **sparse areas** between dense clusters
3. These gaps represent niches with limited hiring activity
4. Cross-reference with Studio to check if demand exists but supply is low

**Insight:** Gaps are opportunities — for recruiters to specialize, for job boards to target, or for companies to position themselves as leaders in emerging spaces.

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## Tracking Company Growth

**Goal:** Monitor which companies are scaling their teams.

**How:**
1. Search for target companies
2. Note their **cluster size** (number of nodes = number of open positions)
3. Visit periodically to see if clusters are growing or shrinking

**Insight:** A rapidly growing cluster indicates funding, product launches, or market expansion.

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## Domain Interconnection Analysis

**Goal:** Understand how different industry verticals relate to each other.

**How:**
1. Enable all domain colors
2. Look at **edges between clusters** of different colors
3. Dense cross-domain connections indicate overlapping talent needs

**Insight:** If DeFi and Infrastructure clusters are heavily connected, it means the same companies and roles span both domains.

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## Talent Pool Visualization

**Goal:** Assess the depth of available talent for a specific role.

**How:**
1. Use the seniority filter to show only Senior+ roles
2. Toggle specific domains
3. The resulting graph shows the **senior talent demand landscape**

**Insight:** Dense areas indicate high demand. Sparse areas indicate niche specializations where talent may be scarce.

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## Quality Score Heatmap

**Goal:** Find which areas of the market have the highest-quality listings.

**How:**
1. Set the score threshold to 7+
2. Observe which clusters remain dense
3. Low-score clusters disappear, revealing where quality listings concentrate

**Insight:** High-quality clusters indicate professional, well-funded companies.

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