HI Talent MCP · Global & free to use

Use the free Global Talent MCP and evaluate engineers in seconds

Connect your LLM to our MCP server that searches an anonymised database of engineers. Tell it about your stack, your problem, your seniority and budget and it will explore matches with you. You can even add it into your IDE and find engineers for specific challenges.

Download the extension

Or add it manually

  1. Open Settings → Connectors.
  2. Choose Add custom connector and paste this URL: 
    https://talent.hitechnology.io/mcp
  3. Set Authentication to Required when the server asks. Sign-in is asked for later, when you open a full profile.
  4. Save, then start a new chat.
Add to Cursor

Or add it manually

  1. Open Settings → Tools & MCP → Add custom MCP.
  2. Add a server with this URL: 
    https://talent.hitechnology.io/mcp
  3. Save. Cursor reconnects on its own.

Editing .cursor/mcp.json directly works too.

Add to VS Code

Or add it manually

  1. Open the Command Palette — ⌘⇧P or Ctrl⇧P.
  2. Run MCP: Add Server and choose HTTP.
  3. Paste this URL and name it hi-talent: 
    https://talent.hitechnology.io/mcp

Add it from the terminal

  1. Run this in your project: 
    claude mcp add hi-talent --transport http https://talent.hitechnology.io/mcp
  2. Start a session and run /mcp to sign in.

Add the server

  1. Settings → Plugins → Add → Add MCP server, with Type set to Streamable HTTP — not STDIO, which asks for a command to launch: 
    https://talent.hitechnology.io/mcp
  2. On the MCP page press Authenticate to enable access to full profiles.

or install the plugin

  1. Settings → Plugins → Add → Add plugin marketplace, with this as the source: 
    https://github.com/HI-Technology-Innovation/hi-talent-mcp-codex-plugin.git
  2. That makes the plugin available but does not install it. Back on the Plugins page, open the Personal tab and press Install next to HI Talent.

Needs Developer Mode, on Plus and above on the web (not Desktop).

Add it from the terminal

  1. Run this in your terminal: 
    codex mcp add hi-talent --url https://talent.hitechnology.io/mcp
Add to LM Studio

Or add it manually

  1. Open your assistant's connector or MCP settings.
  2. Add a remote MCP server with this URL: 
    https://talent.hitechnology.io/mcp
  3. Save. There is no key or token to enter.

Works in Copilot, Perplexity, Windsurf and LM Studio. Perplexity needs Pro or higher.

How it works

Find people who've actually done what you need doing

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Use your AI assistant to explore where you're at and your needs

Explore your stack, the problem, the constraints, all without a job description, just a conversation you were already having.

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The MCP searches by what people have done and matches what you need

Every profile is a set of technical problems the engineer has solved, with scale and outcome intact. Matching runs on those and avoids matching just on skill tags.

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Get more info or an introduction and onboard in 7 days

Ask your agent to evaluate the fit, open a profile, enquire about pricing and availability, or have HI arrange an introduction.

Where it works

Integrated directly into your…

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I've got a gap filling in the ops side of things. I'm goingto need some full time support. We're a predominantly AWS house,is there anyone who can help whose timezone is within 1-2 hours?
Used HI Talent MCP integration, read a memory

Right, I've had a dig through the HI pool. There's one genuinely strong fit and the rest are near misses.

The real candidate: HI-ENG-KE9ENE

Senior DevOps engineer, eight years in, based in Nigeria so UTC+1 and one hour ahead of you. Works remote. Around £2,350 to £2,850 a month indicative.

Specialisms are devops, security and backend. The stack is right up your street with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Prometheus and Grafana. Two pieces of published work back it up. One is building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across more than ten tools with static analysis quality gates and automated artifact deployment. The other is provisioning and operating a full cloud estate covering networking, compute, identity, storage, databases, load balancing, monitoring and autoscaling, all automated through Terraform and Ansible. Background is fintech and enterprise, including regulated systems, which is useful given where you are pointing the business.

Worth flagging that there's no management experience on file, so this is a hands-on pair of hands rather than someone who'll run an ops function for you.

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payment-platform — VS Code
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export class PaymentProcessor {
private stripe: StripeClient;
private legacy: LegacyPaymentGateway;
async processPayment(amount: number) {
// TODO: migrate off legacy gateway
return this.legacy.charge(amount);
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async refund(txId: string) {
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Found 2 strong matches for this legacy migration:

HI-ENG-P4K29TSenior · UK

Led Stripe migration at a major UK fintech. 8 yrs TypeScript/Node, payments domain expert. ~£550/day.

HI-ENG-R7M41SMid-Sr · Remote EU

Built payment orchestration at a European neobank. Strong on legacy modernisation. ~£420/day.

I can ask HI for availability and then an introduction on both, or send a general request for further information.

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Capabilities

A new way to find talent all over the world

Natural language search

Describe what you need in plain English. The MCP turns your challenges or requirements into candidate matches without filters or keyword matching.

Location & cost criteria

Refine by seniority, geography and budget in the same conversation. You can even challenge an AI agent to find the perfect team!

3000+ engineers updated daily

Thousands of engineering profiles evaluated on work and track record, all accessible and free to use.

Honesty about the gaps

If nothing fits, it says so rather than padding the list, and offers a free bespoke search instead.

Ditch the recruiters and find profiles that actually fit

Connect it, describe the problem, and see whether the pool has anyone. An empty result is a useful answer too.

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