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Companies using pdq_

As of 4 November 2026, 143 companies carry pdq on their website or in their DNS records; none names it in job postings yet.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Largest market
United States · 86 companies
Companies with 51+ staff
118 · 83% of the footprint
Top industry
Manufacturing & industry · 27%
Team that names it most
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Hiring on it, last 30 days
0 companies
Most often alongside
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143companies show pdq, all sources
143on their website or in DNS records
0name it in their own job postings
0postings naming pdq, last 90 days
02 — Two ways we see a tool

Where pdq shows up

Each population is counted on its own. We never add them up without saying so, because they answer different questions.

Website and DNS footprint143

Companies whose own pages load pdq's scripts or embeds, or whose domain's mail and hosting records (SPF, DKIM, MX, CNAME) point at pdq. From our crawl of 41.5M company websites and the DNS sweep behind it. Reach: the tool is in the building.

Job postings0

Companies whose own postings say the team works in pdq. Read hourly from ~70 applicant tracking systems, with the function, a quote and a date. Intent: the team that runs it is hiring.

Both0

Companies in the footprint whose postings also name pdq. The rest of the posting population (0) runs pdq without a public trace on the site or in DNS, which is where job data earns its place.

03 — Who uses it

Companies on pdq

No company names pdq in its job postings with enough confidence to list yet; the companies below carry it on their website or in DNS.

Seen through the website or DNS only

Companies with 1,000+ employees whose website or DNS carries pdq but whose postings never name it: the part of the market job data alone misses.

143 companies show pdq; 29 of them have over 1,000 employees.

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04 — Footprint breakdown

By country, company size and industry

The 143 companies with pdq on their website or in DNS. Click a country for its own page where we have one.

By country
companiesshare
United States
8660%
Germany
118%
United Kingdom
118%
Switzerland
64%
France
64%
Canada
53%
Spain
32%
Italy
32%
Netherlands
32%
Australia
21%
Brazil
21%
Ireland
11%
By company size
companiesshare
2-10 employees
75%
11-50 employees
1712%
51-200 employees
4229%
201-500 employees
3222%
501-1000 employees
1510%
1001-5000 employees
2417%
5001-10000 employees
21%
10,001+ employees
32%
By industry
companiesshare
Manufacturing & industry
3927%
Business & finance services
2719%
Public, community & associations
1510%
Consumer services & leisure
1510%
Property & construction
118%
Commerce & trade
86%
Technology & software
86%
Health care
75%
Automotive
43%
Hospitality & travel
21%
Media & content
21%
Transport, logistics & rental
21%
05 — What their DNS and pages also say

The mail, hosting and web stack of pdq companies

Other tools found on the same companies' websites or in their DNS records. Mail providers and senders come from SPF, DKIM and MX; the rest from page code.

Microsoft 365134 companies · 94%
microsoft_intune70 companies · 49%
Microsoft Entra ID69 companies · 48%
apple62 companies · 43%
microsoft_teams62 companies · 43%
Cloudflare48 companies · 34%SendGrid44 companies · 31%Anthropic29 companies · 20%Atlassian27 companies · 19%Mailchimp27 companies · 19%OpenAI21 companies · 15%
Google Workspace19 companies · 13%
Adobe17 companies · 12%Mimecast17 companies · 12%
Amazon SES16 companies · 11%
exclaimer16 companies · 11%
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143 companies carry pdq on their website or in their DNS records; no company names it in its job postings yet. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/tools/pdq)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • Website codeScripts, tags and embeds found on the company's own pages in our crawl of 41.5M sites. A tool counts once per company.
  • DNS recordsSPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX and CNAME records of the company's domain that point at pdq or another vendor. Swept in cycles; dedicated mail-provider and hosting facets open once coverage passes 80% per country.
  • Job postingsRead hourly from the applicant tracking systems behind company career sites. A tool counts when the employer's own text names it as the team's system; candidate wish-lists and apply boilerplate are excluded. Confidence low, medium or high per company.
  • Sending infrastructureCold-e-mail sending domains are look-alike domains on a provider's infrastructure (DNS records, certificate logs) that redirect to the company. Absence is not evidence: only companies with a found sending domain are counted.
  • CompaniesCountry, size and industry come from the company profile we build from its website; headcount from LinkedIn where known, otherwise estimated. Job boards, portals and aggregators are kept out of lists.
FAQ

pdq data: questions

How many companies use pdq?

143 as of 4 November 2026: 143 carry pdq on their website or in their DNS records and 0 name it in their own job postings; 0 show up in both. We keep the two counts apart because they measure different things.

What does "website or DNS" mean?

Our crawler finds pdq's scripts, embeds and tags on the company's own pages, and our DNS sweep reads the domain's mail and hosting records (SPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX, CNAMEs) that point at pdq. Either one puts the company in the footprint. The sweep is still running, so this number grows week by week.

Why is the job-posting number so much smaller?

A posting only names a tool when the team that will use it is hiring and chooses to say so. That makes it a smaller but stronger signal: it tells you which team runs pdq, with a quote and a date. The footprint tells you reach.

How fresh is this?

Career sites are read hourly, websites are re-crawled on a rolling schedule and DNS is re-swept in cycles. The date at the top is when these counts were computed.

Can I get the list?

Yes. The first 20 are on this page; the full 143 with verified e-mails and a weekly feed of new pdq users is in the product. Counting is free.

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