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Your hiring. Now, in your AI agent.

Why pay 10% of CTC in recruitment fees when your AI agent can search and recruit better, in minutes?

Cutshort provides just what your AI agent lacks: access to India’s best engineering talent, intelligent search, and the tools to reach and evaluate the right candidates.

Works with
Senior backend engineer hiring in Bangalore

AI engineer with solid backend experience in Node or Python

AI agent Running a search using Cutshort

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Found 5000+ candidates. These 8 hit the bulls eye:

CandidateHeadlineExp
Aditya R.AI engineer, Node + LLM infra8y
Neha S.Backend lead, Python + RAG7y
Vikram K.SDE III, Node, ex-fintech6y
Priya M.Backend, Python + ML pipelines6y
+ 4 more

Schedule interviews with Aditya and Neha

Sent Aditya and Neha a personalised message with your Calendar link.

Designed for founders, CTOs & engineering managers

Find your next team members in next 11 minutes.

1

Get your Cutshort API key

Your key connects your AI agent to Cutshort.

2

Add Cutshort to your AI agent

Paste this into your agent’s MCP config.

mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cutshort": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.cutshort.io/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization: Bearer cs_live_<your-api-key>"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Using the API instead? View API docs →
3

Start hiring

Open Claude, Cursor, or your AI agent and tell it who you want to hire.

How to set it up

Cutshort MCP setup

Stop paying recruiters 10-15% of CTC to just do the grunt work.

Your AI agent already understands engineering roles and can search and execute faster. Cutshort gives it what it needs: access to India’s best engineering talent, plus the tools to find, evaluate and reach out to the right people using verified contact, salary and location data.

Recruiter

Search on keywords
Review hundreds of resumes
Make cold calls
Coordinate manually
10-15%of CTC
vs.

Your AI agent + Cutshort

Find needle in the haystack
Reach out at scale, in seconds
Use your calendar and other tools
Close role in 7 days
Starts₹10,000/ month($100/mo)
What’s included
250 searches / mo50 unlocks / mo — roughly 3 hiresUnlimited job posts, resume views & downloads on web

Founders and engineering leaders love Cutshort

Shlok Bhartiya
Shlok BhartiyaCEO, Shoppin’

“If you’re an Indian startup struggling to hire quality talent - I get it. What has genuinely helped us scale our product at shoppin’ is Cutshort. It is more than just a hiring platform. In last 1 year, we have hired 5 awesome team members and I’ve rarely come across a team so understanding, accommodating, and prompt.”

Sachin Lala
Sachin LalaHead of Engineering at Blackhawk Network

“We knew that if we wanted to scale up fast without compromising on quality, we needed to remove bottlenecks from the hiring process. Cutshort’s unique platform that not only helps us source but automate and manage our hiring process with our entire team, helps us do just that”

Siddalingamurthy BG
Siddalingamurthy BGVP of Software Development at Biofourmis

“Cutshort helped us setup the entire ecosystem to find the best candidates in terms of the technical aspects as well as the attitude and adaptability to our culture.”

Frequently asked questions

Cutshort MCP lets AI agents such as Claude and Cursor search and work with Cutshort’s engineering talent pool.

You can search for candidates, access candidate information, reach out to candidates, and manage supported hiring workflows.

Cutshort works with Claude, Cursor, and other AI agents that support MCP. API access is also available.

No. You can also integrate with Cutshort through the API.

The API plan includes 250 candidate searches per month.

A candidate unlock gives you access to the candidate information needed to evaluate and contact them. The API plan includes 50 candidate unlocks per month, enough to support roughly 3 hires.

No. There are no per-hire fees.

You also get complimentary access to Cutshort on the web, including unlimited job postings and unlimited resume views and downloads.

Get your Cutshort API key, add the MCP configuration to your AI agent or use the API, and start searching for candidates.

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Give your AI agent recruiting superpowers.

Connect it to India’s best engineering talent pool.

Connect once. Let your AI handle the search.