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Cutshort is India’s leading AI-powered tech talent sourcing platform. Through the Cutshort API and MCP server, you can integrate candidate search, job management, and sourcing workflows directly into your own systems and AI agents — enabling faster, smarter hiring without leaving your existing tools.

What you can build

Custom Sourcing Workflows

Automate candidate discovery and outreach pipelines tailored to your team’s hiring process.

ATS Integrations

Push candidates and job data directly into your applicant tracking system in real time.

AI Hiring Agents

Build LLM-powered recruiting assistants that search, evaluate, and shortlist candidates on demand.

Candidate Pipelines

Filter, rank, and manage candidate pools programmatically based on skills, experience, and fit.

Platform highlights

  • 4M+ verified Indian tech professionals across experience levels and disciplines
  • AI-powered candidate matching that surfaces the most relevant profiles for each role
  • Pre-validated skills across 30+ tech stacks including Python, Java, React, Go, and more
  • Salary data and experience bands to benchmark and filter candidates accurately
  • Startup funding stage data so you can target talent open to early- or growth-stage companies
  • WhatsApp and email outreach built-in for high-response-rate candidate engagement

REST API vs MCP Server

REST API

Use the REST API for custom integrations, ATS sync, job board tools, and any server-side application that needs structured access to Cutshort data. Authenticate with an API key and query standard JSON endpoints.

MCP Server

Use the MCP Server to give AI agents and LLM-based hiring assistants (Claude, GPT, and others) direct tool-use access to Cutshort. Ideal for conversational recruiting agents and agentic workflows.

API base URL

All REST API requests are made to the following base URL:
All REST API endpoints in this documentation are relative to this base URL. Replace YOUR_API_KEY in any code example with the key you generate in your Cutshort dashboard.