# Source people with your own Claude or ChatGPT. Sourcing MCP for recruiters Your agent already knows the vacancy and the client. ScoutMesh gives it access to 17 recruitment databases and tools — to find people, benchmark the budget, and brief you on the employer. Scout Mesh is an MCP gateway for recruiters. Connect Claude or ChatGPT once, describe a role in plain language, and search people-data sources through one connection. New accounts start with $5 in credits. After that you pay for usage at Scout Mesh rates, with no subscription or seats. ## How it works Browse the [free recruitment skills library](https://getscoutmesh.com/skills) for role briefs, Boolean searches, sourcing plans, candidate outreach, interview plans, and candidate summaries. Each skill includes a prompt to paste into Claude and full instructions you can read and copy without a ScoutMesh account. The [Markdown index](https://getscoutmesh.com/skills.md) links to every skill. 1. **Connect once.** Connect Scout Mesh to Claude or ChatGPT. No coding required. 2. **Describe the role.** Describe the role — or the question: a budget to check, an employer to vet, a market to map — in the chat you already use. 3. **Direct and refine.** Refine in plain English, review the evidence, and decide when paid enrichment runs. ## Pricing The account is free. Paid tools use Scout Mesh rates. Your assistant receives current tool prices before paid calls. - Clay: quoted per tool - Ploid: quoted per tool - People Data Labs: $0.28 / record - Lusha: $0.125 / credit - prog.ai: $0.15 / profile - GitHub: free - Exa: $0.007 / search - Bouncer: $0.008 / check - Findymail: $0.02 / email - Hunter: $0.025 / email - ContactOut: $0.05 profile · $0.20 reveal - EnrichLayer: quoted per tool - TheirStack: $0.04 job · $0.12 company - Akta: $0.05 / credit - Glassdoor: $0.005 / call - Parallel: $0.005 / search - Hugging Face: free ## Sources One conversation can use these live sources: - [Clay](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/clay): structured sourcing and company enrichment - [Ploid](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/ploid): candidate discovery and LinkedIn activity - [People Data Labs](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/people-data-labs): people search - [Lusha](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/lusha): contacts + dials - [prog.ai](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/prog-ai): engineer search - [GitHub](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/github): code activity - [Exa](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/exa): web search - [Findymail](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/findymail): email finder - [Hunter](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/hunter): work emails - [ContactOut](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/contactout): contact lookup - [EnrichLayer](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/enrichlayer): personal emails - [Bouncer](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/bouncer): email verification - [TheirStack](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/theirstack): hiring signals - [Akta](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/akta): company signals - [Glassdoor](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/glassdoor): salary & reputation - [Parallel](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/parallel): web research - [Hugging Face](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/hugging-face): AI/ML talent ## Frequently asked questions ### Is ScoutMesh another sourcing app, like Juicebox or Metaview? No. Those are finished apps you log into and work inside. ScoutMesh is a connector: it plugs 17 recruitment databases and tools into the AI chat you already use, so you build your own agent around your own brief, outreach and ATS instead of buying someone else's product. ### Where does ScoutMesh actually run? Inside your own Claude or ChatGPT. You paste one connection URL, and the sources appear as tools your AI can use in normal conversation. There is no separate app to learn. ### What does it cost? The account is free and comes with $5 in credits. After that you pay for usage at Scout Mesh's listed rates. Your assistant receives the current tool prices before paid calls. No subscription or seats. ### Which sources are connected? Seventeen today: Clay for structured sourcing and company enrichment, Ploid for candidate discovery and LinkedIn activity, people sources (People Data Labs, Lusha, prog.ai, GitHub, Hugging Face, Findymail, Hunter, ContactOut, EnrichLayer), market sources (Glassdoor for salary benchmarks and employer reputation, TheirStack and Akta for hiring and company signals, Parallel and Exa for discovery and research) and Bouncer for verification. The full grid and price sheet are on this page. One search fans out across them and returns a single deduped list. ### Can it spend money without asking? Not past a few dollars. Cents-level work — a salary benchmark, a reputation brief, a single email — runs without interrupting you; when a request would pass about $5, the gateway itself stops and asks your AI to show you the plan and its total before spending. You can also give a standing budget ("you have $20 for this, don't ask") or hold paid sources entirely. ScoutMesh charges only when a paid tool actually executes, at the quoted Scout Mesh rate. ### Can it do market research, not just find people? Yes — and it offers to. Before a search it can benchmark the vacancy's budget against the market by title, location and experience (Glassdoor, about half a cent per estimate), compare alternative locations, brief you on an employer's ratings, reviews and interview experiences so you know what candidates will ask, map who else is hiring the profile and what they pay, and size the talent pool. Findings come with sources, dates and sample sizes. ### Does it work for client prospecting too? Yes. The same gateway finds companies with live hiring signals and the decision-makers who run the team, so one connection covers sourcing candidates and winning clients. ### Do I need my own accounts with each provider? No. One ScoutMesh connection covers all sources. Connect once and your AI can use any of them, on one balance. ## Developer resources - [Scout Mesh developer resources](https://getscoutmesh.com/developers.md): OpenAPI, REST catalog, MCP connection, and authentication - [Scout Mesh OpenAPI spec](https://getscoutmesh.com/openapi.json) - [Public REST API](https://getscoutmesh.com/api/v1) - [MCP server](https://mcp.getscoutmesh.com/mcp) ## Sitemap - [Home](https://getscoutmesh.com/index.md) - [Scout Mesh developer resources](https://getscoutmesh.com/developers.md) - [Sources](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources.md) - [Guides](https://getscoutmesh.com/guides.md) - [OpenAPI specification](https://getscoutmesh.com/openapi.json) - [llms.txt](https://getscoutmesh.com/llms.txt)