Surfaced before they raised.

Personal-repo commits migrated from nights/weekends to working hours → left her job ~6 weeks before any LinkedIn change.

Obscure lib adopted by 3 top-lab builders before it hit 500 stars.

Won an on-device health hackathon; repo showed production-grade quantization.

Institutional affiliation replaced by a personal gmail — leaving academia with his tech.

Research repo gained a Dockerfile + API route — hobby becoming a company.

Benchmark repo forked by two infra teams at mid-size AI labs before any public launch.

LinkedIn shows no announcement of the 2022 acquihire — surfaced only via acquisition registry.

Co-author list shrinking to solo on recent commits; affiliation still shows university email (not yet flipped).

Research repo gained an ingestion pipeline and a basic API — early hobby-to-company signal.

Daily design-Twitter thread showing consistent, escalating technical progress with no funding announcement.

Utility patent filed under founder's own name, no associated company entity yet.

Personal repo activity shifted to full-time hours ~2 months before any public company mention.

Detected a title change from 'Head of RevOps' to 'Building something new' 3 weeks before any public founder signal.

Surfaced as a solo builder shipping a live AI SaaS and an OSS multi-agent framework in the same quarter — a small team's output, from one person.

Repeatedly builds complete products at hackathons (MIT / Hack-Nation, AISCO, HI Paris).

Surfaced via a cited maternal-health ML paper with a productizing repo.