Applicant tracking vendors leave demo, training and template boards live on the same public endpoints their customers use. Anything that crawls those endpoints ingests them as employers. This is the list, measured against each vendor's own documented API, together with the boards that look like demos and are not.
763 postings across 11 vendor demo or template boards. They are not tagged as demos in any payload; the only way to tell is to read what they post.
A recruiting firm published Companies Hiring the Most for Austin Roles
(2026) ranking Leverdemo 8 twenty-second on 55 open Austin
roles. That board is Lever's training environment. It carries 429 postings, of
which exactly 55 say “Austin, TX” — the published figure, to
the role. Its titles include Dolphin Trainer, Dog Groomer and
***POSTING TEMPLATE - ENGINEERING.
It reaches production elsewhere too: ZipRecruiter carries the same board as a company page under its own name, Lever Implementation Training Environment, and computes an hourly salary range from its postings.
Safe to drop from an employer feed.
| Platform | Board | Postings | Posting that decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| lever | leverdemo-8 | 429 | ***POSTING TEMPLATE - ENGINEERING Board's own name is “Lever Implementation Training Environment”. Also posts Dolphin Trainer, Dog Groomer and Farmer. 55 postings say Austin, TX. |
| lever | leverdemo-7 | 205 | Same demo family as leverdemo-8. |
| lever | leverdemo-2 | 79 | Same demo family as leverdemo-8. |
| lever | leverdemo | 12 | Customer Success Manager AH Test Lever's original public demo board. |
| greenhouse | sample | 12 | Forklift Operator (KT) Twelve postings spanning Oxford, Bordeaux, Bahrain and Clairton PA with no shared employer -- vendor sample data. |
| lever | leverdemo-6 | 10 | Same demo family as leverdemo-8. |
| ashby | companyname | 7 | Sales Template Token is the literal placeholder; posts the same “Senior Software Engineer” repeatedly. |
| greenhouse | testing | 6 | 0. TEST JOB Several postings give their location as “z-Test & Templates Only”. |
| ashby | testing | 1 | External job ad template Finland Single posting, names itself a template. |
| recruitee | test | 1 | Senior Marketer (Sample) Account name “Test”; the one posting names itself a sample. |
| recruitee | testing | 1 | Senior Marketer (Sample) Account name “Testing”; same sample posting. |
This is the half a blocklist gets wrong. Suppressing these deletes real jobs from real employers. Two of the three most demo-looking tokens found in this audit belong to real companies.
| Platform | Board | Postings | Posting that decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| recruitee | yourcompany | 23 | Pflegefachkraft | 1:1 Intensivpflege Account name is the unedited default, “Your Company”, but the 23 postings are real German nursing and logistics roles. The defect is an employer who never renamed the account -- any aggregator reading it publishes a company called “Your Company”. |
| ashby | playground | 8 | VP of SMB Sales Reads as a sandbox and is not one. Real roles in New York and Denver for a real company. Blocking this token deletes live jobs. |
Reads synthetic, plausible enough that nothing observed settles it. Published as unresolved rather than guessed in either direction.
| Platform | Board | Postings | Posting that decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| greenhouse | example | 21 | App Platform Software Engineer Twenty-one coherent roles across New York, San Francisco and Toronto. Reads like one real company on a placeholder token, but nothing observed proves which, so it is neither blocked nor vouched for. |
| greenhouse | staging | 2 | TEST Two postings: one named TEST, one a plausible operations role in Pune. Too little to decide. |
demodesk, testlio and
testRigor are real companies; a substring match calls all three
sandboxes.If a board is listed here and is yours, say so and it comes off the list the same day: kaleb@revivacatch.com. A wrong entry here suppresses real jobs, so corrections are treated as bugs, not as feedback.