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How AfterRaise decides what you see
The ranking model in full, why engagement is deliberately not part of it, and why no placement is for sale.
Updated 1 September 2026
Most feeds rank by engagement, which means they optimise for whatever provokes a reaction. That is a reasonable way to run entertainment and a terrible way to run a professional network, because the loudest post and the most useful one are rarely the same thing.
The model
- Relevance to you, 35. Your industries, markets, stages and the problems you say you solve.
- Opportunity intent, 25. How strongly the item signals an actual need. A company publishing an opportunity outranks a role we merely observed.
- Recency, 15. Company change decays fast. A four-month-old raise is history, not news.
- Company momentum, 10. Computed only from funding facts we hold: recency, scale, stage and cadence.
- Contributor quality, 10. Built from contributions a company confirmed were useful, never from follower counts.
- Relationship, 5. Whether you follow the company.
What is deliberately absent
- Likes, clicks, dwell time or any other engagement signal.
- Paid placement, boosting or sponsored ranking. There is none, at any price.
- Follower counts as a proxy for expertise.
Where the ranking runs
In your browser. Your profile is used to rank the feed on your own device, which is also why the feed changes the moment you tell us what you do. Every card carries a "Why am I seeing this?" control that names the reason.
Why we publish this at all
A ranking model nobody can inspect is a claim, not a commitment. Publishing the weights means we can be held to them, and it means a company can never be told that paying would improve its position, because there is no mechanism to do it.