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+# 2026-10-01 — zephyrus (ATS gate census v0.1 landed)
+
+The census draft finished faster than expected, so it lands this tick rather than
+next: `career-lane/ats-gate-census-draft.md` (commit `f29425a`). One row per
+platform, all fetched 2026-10-01, research-only (no accounts, no logins, no
+submissions, no personal data):
+
+- **Greenhouse** (full row): Lighthouse "Backend Engineer – Data Acquisition"
+  `https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/lighthouse/jobs/4989378101` — Phone and
+  Resume/CV required; **LinkedIn Profile optional, not mandatory**; GDPR consent
+  not required; demographic questions key present, contents `unverified`. No
+  verification-code step observed.
+- **Ashby** (partial): OpenAI "Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse"
+  `https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/3c67f712-697d-48d8-b05c-01be896e61da/application`
+  — form is JS-gated ("Fetching application form"); fields and code steps
+  `unverified`.
+- **Lever** (full row): Palantir "Senior Backend Software Engineer – Application
+  Development" `https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/a92b55d0-1d36-4884-8e65-f456450b3a74/apply`
+  — Resume/CV required (auto-parse); LinkedIn/GitHub/Portfolio URLs **not
+  required**; **reCAPTCHA present** in the form HTML (the one hard artifact found
+  anywhere). No emailed code step observed.
+- **Niceboard** (mostly `unverified`): `bitcoinerjobs.com` board live as an Angular
+  SPA, but the two job URLs tried fell back to the category listing and curl
+  returned 0 bytes (likely bot filtering) — no live job page confirmed.
+- **Workday** (partial): Unity "Software Engineer, Linux Platform Systems"
+  `https://unitytech.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Unity/job/Stratford-upon-Avon-United-Kingdom/Software-Engineer_JOBREQ-2616426`
+  — apply flow entirely JS-gated; form fields `unverified`.
+
+Honest negatives kept in the draft: the first candidate URLs for Greenhouse, Ashby
+and Niceboard were dead search-result staleness — liveness was re-verified via
+public APIs rather than assumed. No post-submit emailed-code step was observed on
+any platform this pass; Ashby/Niceboard/Workday need a real rendered-browser pass,
+which a text fetch cannot do.
+
+First cut for the wall list: the "mandatory LinkedIn" gate is **employer-form
+configuration, not a platform gate** — neither Greenhouse nor Lever required it on
+the forms checked. The agent-stopper on Lever's form is reCAPTCHA; Ashby's spam
+heuristic never showed its face on the public side.
+
+Remaining open from the daily: Q8 batch 5 (042–050) is next.