Bullhorn MCP Server | Governed AI Gateway

What MCP is

One standard for every AI agent.

MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is an open standard for connecting AI agents to the systems they work with. It serves the chat agents people use every day and the autonomous agents that work on their own. Build the connection once, and any agent that supports MCP can use it.

Chat agents

The assistants you work with in conversation: Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or any AI agent that supports MCP.

Autonomous agents

Agents that carry out tasks on their own, on a schedule or when something happens, through the same MCP connection.

One governed connection

Connect is a single MCP server, so every agent you use, chat or autonomous, works within the same permissions, guardrails and audit.

Bullhorn MCP comparison

Exenai Connect versus a standard Bullhorn MCP server.

A standard Bullhorn MCP server connects an AI agent to the Bullhorn API. That is useful, and it is where Connect starts. Everything after the first two rows is what Connect adds.

What you get

Standard MCP

Exenai Connect

Connect your AI

What every MCP server should do

Use any AI agent, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot, with your Bullhorn data

Yes

Read and update Bullhorn records from a conversation

Yes

One MCP server for Bullhorn and every other system you connect

Yes

Named users set up and managed centrally, not machine by machine

Yes

Make AI safe

Govern what AI can see and do, and prove what it did

Permissions down to individual API endpoints

Yes

Role based access, set user by user

Yes

Guardrails that stop the AI doing what it shouldn't

Yes

Alerts by email or Slack when a guardrail is triggered

Yes

A full, queryable audit of every request, call and change

Yes

Connect Apps

Turn a conversation into software your team uses

Build an app from two or three lines of plain English

Yes

Apps that read and write live Bullhorn data

Yes

Publish apps in Bullhorn tabs and cards, where consultants already work

Yes

Publish apps standalone, outside Bullhorn

Yes

Share an app with your whole team, not just the person who built it

Yes

Live in under ten minutes, with no code

Yes

Connect Surfaces

Put apps in front of people outside your firm

Secure sign in and authentication for every app user

Yes

Separate surfaces for consultants, candidates, clients and partners

Yes

Permissions for each surface, so people see only what is theirs

Yes

Support

Help from people who know recruitment

Ask for help from inside your AI agent, with the context sent for you

Yes

A four-week onboarding and hypercare programme

Yes

A standard MCP server here means one that exposes the Bullhorn API to an AI agent as tools, which is what MCP itself provides.

Connect and Amplify

Amplify works inside Bullhorn. Connect works around it.

They do different jobs, and Connect never tries to replace Amplify.

Bullhorn Amplify

AI inside Bullhorn

Bullhorn's own AI, built into the ATS. It takes work off your recruiters and automates a wide range of recruiter processes, including search and match.

Exenai Connect

AI outside, connecting in

Frontier models and AI agents connect to Bullhorn and your other systems, for the apps and processes that need more than Bullhorn alone.

Apps built by AI, with no AI inside

AI writes the Connect Apps we publish in Bullhorn and the logic behind them. The apps themselves contain no AI: they make no decisions and can't act on their own.

Extend Bullhorn

Get more from the Bullhorn you already have.

Bullhorn stays your system of record, with every relationship, job and placement you have built up. Connect lets you work with it semi-headless through your AI agent, and extend it with the dashboards, reports and applications your firm needs, for your consultants and for the people your firm works with.

Work headless

Ask your AI agent instead of clicking through screens. Bullhorn stays the system of record underneath.

Dashboards and analytics

Live dashboards and reports on your Bullhorn data, built in minutes and shared with your team.

New applications

New interfaces for the work Bullhorn was never designed for, inside Bullhorn or standalone.

Beyond your firm

Secure surfaces for candidates, clients and partners, each with their own sign in and permissions.

Built for Bullhorn

Works the way Bullhorn works.

Bullhorn stays your system of record. Connect reads and writes live data rather than copying it somewhere else.
Apps where consultants already work. Connect Apps sit in Bullhorn tabs and cards, so nobody leaves the record they're on.
Every system, one gateway. Your other systems connect alongside Bullhorn, through the same governed connection.
Bullhorn and Invenias only. We don't build for every CRM, so every part of Connect fits how recruitment firms use Bullhorn.

FAQ

Questions we get asked.

What is a Bullhorn MCP server?

A way for any AI agent to work with Bullhorn.

An MCP server lets AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot work with another system through the Model Context Protocol, an open standard. A Bullhorn MCP server gives the agent tools to search, read and update Bullhorn records.

Is Connect a Bullhorn product?

No. Connect is built by Exenai.

We sell it directly to firms that use Bullhorn and Invenias. It isn't sold through the Bullhorn Marketplace.

Which AI agents does Connect work with?

Any AI agent that supports MCP.

That includes chat agents such as Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot, and autonomous agents that work on their own. We recommend Claude.

Does Connect replace Bullhorn Amplify?

No. They do different jobs.

Amplify is Bullhorn's AI inside Bullhorn, taking recruiter work off your team. Connect links frontier models and AI agents from outside to Bullhorn and your other systems. The apps it publishes inside Bullhorn contain no AI themselves.

How long does setup take?

Minutes, once we have API access.

Send us a Bullhorn API key and your Connect tenant is live. Then we run a four-week onboarding and hypercare programme with your team, so everyone knows how to use Connect and can roll it out safely across your firm.

How is Connect priced?

A monthly subscription, tiered by the size of your firm.

The pricing page explains how the tiers work.

A Bullhorn MCP server your firm can govern.