Guide
How to track AI executive moves
How to follow AI hires, exits and promotions as they happen: the six kinds of move, what confirmed and reported mean, how to read a title change, and where to set an alert.
You track AI executive moves by reading the Signal, a board where every row names a person or company, a date, a source link and a confidence label.
Recruiters, founders and analysts use it to see who changed jobs without hunting through press releases and social feeds.
Six kinds of move
The Signal logs six kinds of career shift. A hire is an executive joining a company. A departure is someone leaving one. A promotion is a leader stepping into a bigger job at the same firm. A board seat shows where an executive advises or governs outside the day job. A founding is the start of a new company. An acquihire is a buyer bringing in a startup's team mainly for its people.
The board also logs releases and company events. A key departure next to a big product launch tells a different story than either one alone.
Reported is not confirmed
Every row carries one of three labels. Confirmed means the company announced it, a filing shows it or the person said it. Reported means reputable press cited sources. Inferred means the row rests on a pattern. The glossary has the plain definitions.
Two OpenAI rows from Oct. 14, 2026 show the difference. Sachin Katti left his role as Vice President of Compute Strategy and GPT-Infra and stays on as an advisor. Uday Ruddarraju's job grew from Chief Technology Officer of Compute Capacity to Head of Compute and Infrastructure. Press broke both, so both rows say reported. They stay at that label until OpenAI or the executives say it themselves.
For public companies, the first official sign is often a filing. In the United States, a company reports the departure or appointment of a director or top officer on Form 8-K, Item 5.02, within four business days. The filing names the person, the title and the effective date.
Read the title, the origin and the destination
A good read checks three things: the title change, where the person came from and where they went.
On Oct. 23, 2026, Kalepa named Garrett Schlesinger its Chief Technology Officer, and the company announced it, so the row is confirmed. He came from Affirm, where he was Vice President of Software Engineering. That is a step from a vice president's seat to the top technical job.
On Oct. 16, 2026, Kevin Boon went from President to Chief Executive Officer of Mysten Labs, also confirmed. Origin and destination are the same company, so this is a promotion from inside. Across many rows, that comparison shows which companies promote from within and which hire from outside.
Follow moves without checking daily
- Alerts. The alerts page sets up email, RSS or a JSON feed, so new rows reach you when they land.
- The Talent column. ailately.com/columns/talent reports on who is moving and why.
- The Talent tracker. The Talent tracker page shows where to find each part of the record.
- One company. Each company page at
/companies/<name>collects its hires and departures. - One person. Each page at
/people/<name>links every move that person made.
What is open and what Pro adds
Everyone can read the last 14 days of the Signal. A reader who checks once a week, or who follows an alert, sees every fresh row in that window. Pro members read the rows older than 14 days, which is how you trace team changes across months.