Clera MCP: search and screen startup candidates from your AI app
Hire from a chat with Clera's MCP server: search more than 210,000 vetted startup candidates, review your matches and request intros without leaving Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. ContextGate connects Clera to your AI app, can hide candidates' personal details by policy, and keeps every intro request on record.
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Hire through Clera from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
- 1Click Connect Clera free and sign in with your Clera account.
- 2An intro request reaches a real candidate, so switch off that tool if your AI app should only search and screen.
- 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
- 4Ask your AI app to find backend engineers with payments experience in Clera, then open Activity to see the search.
Hiring tasks from a chat
- Search vetted startup candidates for the role you're hiring for.
- Review and screen the matches Clera suggests.
- Request an intro to a candidate you want to talk to.
Candidate data, handled with care
- Switch off the intro tool and keep search and review; it's hidden and refused if called.
- A policy can hide candidates' emails and phone numbers from AI apps.
- Activity records each search and intro request.
What you get with Clera and ContextGate
- Your AI apps can use CleraClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Clera through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
- You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Clera tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
- Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.
ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.
Clera tools
Clera's own MCP server shows its tools once you sign in. When you connect it, they are listed and synced in your workspace.