Using SeekOut MCP

SeekOut MCP Candidate Actions: Contact, Export, and ATS

From contact retrieval to ATS pushes, SeekOut MCP lets you act on candidates directly in your AI chat — without switching tools or tabs.

Finding the right candidates is only half the job. SeekOut MCP lets you act on them without leaving the conversation. Once you've identified candidates you want to engage, you can retrieve contact info, draft outreach, export lists, push to your ATS, save to Recruit workspaces, and compare candidates side-by-side — all in plain English.

All actions respect your existing SeekOut permissions and credit limits. SeekOut MCP cannot edit or delete any existing SeekOut data. Actions that consume credits (like contact retrieval) will reflect your organization's current balance.

Available Actions at a Glance

Action	What it does	Prerequisite
Get Contact Info	Retrieve verified emails and phone numbers	SeekOut credits required
Draft Outreach	Write personalized emails based on profile + role	None
Export to Spreadsheet	Export candidate lists to Excel or Google Sheets	None
Push to ATS	Send candidates to your ATS requisition	Connected ATS required
Save to Recruit	Create workspaces and add candidates	SeekOut Recruit access required
Compare & Shortlist	Rank candidates or compare side-by-side	None

Get Contact Info

Retrieve verified email addresses and phone numbers for candidates directly from the conversation. Contact data is sourced through SeekOut's verification layer and billed against your organization's SeekOut credit balance.

Contact retrieval consumes SeekOut credits. The number of credits used depends on the type of data returned (email vs. phone) and your plan. Check with your SeekOut administrator if you're unsure of your organization's credit balance.

Example prompts

Get the contact info for the top 3 candidates from this search.

Retrieve the email and phone number for Sarah Chen at Databricks.

Get verified emails for everyone on the shortlist.

Draft Outreach

Ask your AI assistant to write personalized outreach messages based on each candidate's profile and the role you're hiring for. The assistant reads the candidate's background — their experience, skills, and current role — and crafts a message that speaks to them specifically, not a generic template.

You can request a single message or ask for drafts for an entire shortlist at once.

Example prompts

Draft a personalized outreach email to the top candidate for our Staff Engineer role.

Write outreach messages for all 5 candidates on the shortlist. Keep each one under 100 words.

Rewrite this draft to emphasize our remote-first culture and the impact of the role.

Export to Spreadsheet

Export your candidate results to Excel or Google Sheets. The assistant compiles the relevant profile data — name, title, company, location, skills, and any evaluation notes — into a clean, shareable file.

Example prompts

Export these candidates to a spreadsheet with their names, titles, companies, and locations.

Create an Excel file of the full search results including skills and seniority.

Export the shortlist to Google Sheets and include the fit scores.

Push to ATS

Send candidates directly to an open requisition in your connected ATS without opening a separate tab or tool. SeekOut MCP supports Greenhouse, Lever, and other integrated ATS platforms. Your candidate's profile data maps to the appropriate fields in your ATS automatically.

ATS push requires a connected ATS integration. Contact your SeekOut administrator to confirm which ATS systems are integrated with your account and which requisitions are available.

Example prompts

Push the top 3 candidates to the Senior Product Designer req in Greenhouse.

Add these candidates to the open DevOps Engineer position in Lever.

Send the shortlisted candidates to our ATS and tag them as sourced from SeekOut MCP.

Save to Recruit Workspaces

Create new SeekOut Recruit workspaces, populate them with candidates from your search, and share them with your hiring team — all from the conversation. This keeps your sourcing organized and makes it easy to hand off a curated list to hiring managers or coordinators.

Saving to Recruit workspaces requires access to SeekOut Recruit. If you're unsure whether your account includes Recruit, contact your SeekOut administrator.

Example prompts

Save the top candidates to a new Recruit workspace called "Head of Growth - Q3 Search."

Create a Recruit workspace with these 8 candidates and share it with the hiring panel.

Add the shortlist to our existing Recruit workspace for the VP of Engineering role.

Compare & Shortlist

Ask the assistant to rank candidates, compare two or more profiles side-by-side, or build a shortlist with supporting rationale for hiring manager review. The assistant evaluates candidates against the role criteria you've defined and presents results in a clear, structured format.

Example prompts

Build a shortlist of the top 5 candidates from today's search and explain why each one made the cut.

Compare these three candidates side-by-side for our Head of Data Science role.

Rank everyone from the search by their fit for a player-coach engineering manager role.

Which of these candidates has the strongest combination of startup experience and ML depth?

SeekOut MCP operates within your existing permissions at all times. It cannot access candidate data you don't already have permission to view, and it cannot modify or delete any records in SeekOut or your ATS. If an action is blocked by your permissions, the assistant will let you know.

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