Invenias 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.

Invenias MCP comparison

Exenai Connect versus a standard Invenias MCP server.

Connect is the only MCP server for Invenias, so the comparison is with a standard one you would build yourself on the Invenias API. 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 Invenias data

Yes

Read and update Invenias records from a conversation

Yes

One MCP server for Invenias 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 Invenias data

Yes

Publish apps inside Invenias, where consultants already work

Yes

Publish apps standalone, outside Invenias

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 Invenias API to an AI agent as tools, which is what MCP itself provides.

Keep Invenias

You don't need a new system. You need a new way in.

Newer search platforms promise AI built in. Moving to one means migrating years of relationships, assignments and history, and rebuilding the way your firm works. Invenias already models what executive search depends on: the relationships between people, companies, assignments and candidates, and the detail behind each one. Connect lets you keep all of that and go further. Work with Invenias semi-headless through your AI agent, and extend it with the dashboards, reports and applications it never had, for your consultants and for the people your firm works with.

Work headless

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

Dashboards and analytics

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

New applications

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

Beyond your firm

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

Built for Invenias

Built by people who know Invenias.

We know it from the inside. Our Cofounder & CEO co-founded Invenias, so we know how search firms use it and how its data fits together.
Invenias 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 inside Invenias, so nobody leaves the record they're on.
Confidential work stays confidential. Role based permissions decide what each person's AI can see, assignment by assignment.

FAQ

Questions we get asked.

What is an Invenias MCP server?

A way for any AI agent to work with Invenias.

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

Is Connect an Invenias product?

No. Connect is built by Exenai.

We sell it directly to firms that use Invenias and Bullhorn. 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.

Are there other MCP servers for Invenias?

No. Connect is the only MCP server for Invenias.

You can build your own on the Invenias API, and you would then own the permissions, guardrails, audit and upkeep yourselves. Connect gives you all of that from day one, and goes well beyond MCP with Connect Apps and Connect Surfaces.

How long does setup take?

Minutes, once API access is in place.

An Invenias admin sets up API access with us on a short call, 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.

An Invenias MCP server your firm can govern.