Ashby MCP connector for Manus

Walk into every interview prepared and see where each role stands

Connect Ashby and ask “What interviews do I have this week?” Manus lists the times, candidates and roles, and before each one it writes an interview prep brief with the background, resume summary, earlier feedback and panel. It also counts candidates at every stage of each role and lists the scorecards and approvals waiting on you. It sees only what your Ashby account can already see, and for new candidates, notes or stage moves you can ask it to show the change first.

First, connect Ashby in Manus

Prep me for my 2:00 PM interview today.

Interview prep briefIllustration
MOMaya OkaforSenior Backend Engineer · OnsiteToday · 2:00 PM

Background

  • Seven years on backend teams, most recently building payment APIs at a fintech startup
  • Led the move of a billing service from a monolith to Go services
  • Moving to Austin in January, from an email on Oct 9

Resume summary

B.S. in computer science. Works mostly in Go, PostgreSQL and Kafka. Two earlier roles at growth-stage startups.

Earlier rounds

  • Recruiter screen · Oct 6Clear communicator, wants more ownership
  • Hiring manager screen · Oct 13Strong API design, less depth on caching

Today’s panel

  • YYou
  • AKAlex KimEngineering manager
  • SRSofia RossiStaff engineer

Worth asking about

  1. 1How she would add caching to a busy read endpoint
  2. 2A design she disagreed with and what happened next
  3. 3What she wants to own in her next role
Senior Backend Engineer pipeline202 candidates in process
  • Application review148
  • Recruiter screen32
  • Hiring manager screen14
  • Onsite6
  • Offer2

Maya Okafor is one of 6 candidates at Onsite.

See your Ashby interviews this week, with a prep brief for each

Ask what’s on your schedule and get the list. Before each interview, Manus turns the candidate’s profile and earlier Ashby interview feedback into a one-page brief.

What interviews do I have this week?

Coming up this week5 interviewsIllustration
  • Tue, Oct 20Today2:00 PMMOMaya OkaforSenior Backend EngineerMeeting link
  • Wed, Oct 2110:00 AMLMLeo MartinsProduct DesignerMeeting link
  • Wed, Oct 214:30 PMDRDaniel ReyesAccount ExecutiveMeeting link
  • Thu, Oct 223:00 PMNFNoah FischerSenior Backend EngineerMeeting link
  • Fri, Oct 239:30 AMHSHana SatoProduct DesignerMeeting link

Your week of interviews in one list

Ask what’s coming up this week. Manus lists the time, candidate, role and meeting link for each interview, earliest first.

A prep brief before each interview

Manus pulls the candidate’s background, a resume summary, the panel and the Ashby hiring team, plus the earlier feedback your account can see.

Read an Ashby candidate profile in one answer

Manus reads the resume, emails, notes, interview transcripts and feedback on a candidate, answers your question and says where each part came from. It summarizes; the hiring decision stays with you.

Candidate summaryIllustration
MOMaya OkaforSenior Backend Engineer
Experience
Seven years, backend and payments
Strengths in feedback
API design, clear communication
Still to find out
Depth on caching, earliest start date
Next step
Onsite today at 2:00 PM
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Did Maya Okafor mention relocating or a notice period?

ManusYes to both. She’s moving to Austin in January and would like to work hybrid. Her notice period at her current job is four weeks.Email · Oct 9Recruiter screen notes · Oct 6

A short candidate summary for the hiring team

Get the experience, strengths from feedback and open questions in five lines you can paste into a debrief.

Ask what a candidate said, with the source

Ask about relocation or a notice period. Manus checks emails, notes and interview transcripts and says where it found each answer.

Review your Ashby candidate pipeline by stage

Ask how your roles look. Manus counts candidates at each stage of the Ashby pipeline for every role you can see, compares roles side by side and can turn it into a weekly report.

How is the pipeline looking for my open roles?

Senior Backend Engineer202 candidates in process
  • Application review148
  • Recruiter screen32
  • Hiring manager screen14
  • Onsite6
  • Offer2
Product Designer132 candidates in process
  • Application review96
  • Recruiter screen27
  • Hiring manager screen5
  • Onsite3
  • Offer1
Account Executive92 candidates in process
  • Application review64
  • Recruiter screen15
  • Hiring manager screen8
  • Onsite4
  • Offer1
ManusIllustrationProduct Designer has the biggest drop: 27 candidates at Recruiter screen, but only 5 at Hiring manager screen. The other two roles move about half of their candidates on.
Recruiting weekly updateMon, Oct 19Illustration
Every Monday · 9:00 AMPosted in #hiring
Open roleIn processOnsiteOffer
Senior Backend Engineer20262
Product Designer13231
Account Executive9241
  • 14 interviews scheduled this week
  • Product Designer: the biggest drop is after Recruiter screen

Next update: Mon, Oct 26 · 9:00 AM

Compare roles side by side

See the hiring pipeline by stage for several roles at once, and where candidates stop moving on.

Weekly Ashby reports, written for you

Set it up once, and every Monday Manus pulls stage counts from the Ashby hiring platform and writes the recruiting weekly update, with the interviews coming up.

See how Automations work

Clear the Ashby scorecards and approvals waiting on you

Ask “What do I need to do today?” Manus lists the scorecards you owe, approvals waiting on you and follow-ups, then helps you draft the feedback from your notes.

To do today6Illustration

Scorecards you owe

  • Ethan Brooks · Senior Backend EngineerInterviewed Fri, Oct 16
  • Olivia Grant · Product DesignerInterviewed Mon, Oct 19

Waiting for your approval

  • Offer for Priya Shah · Account Executive

Follow-ups

  • Reply to Priya Shah about a start date
  • Confirm Noah Fischer’s availability for next week
  • Send Hana Sato the details for Friday’s interview
ManusIllustrationYour oldest scorecard is for Ethan Brooks. Here’s a draft from the notes you pasted. Pick the rating and submit it in Ashby.
Scorecard draft · Ethan Brooks

Strengths

Clear design for the retry queue. Asked good questions about load before choosing a database.

Concerns

Little detail on how they would test the failure cases.

Overall rating

You choose this in Ashby

See the scorecards you still owe

Get each one with the candidate, role and interview date, oldest first, so you know where to start.

Draft scorecard feedback from your notes

Paste your notes, and Manus writes the feedback in your words. You pick the rating and submit it in Ashby yourself.

Update candidates in the Ashby ATS after you check the change

Keep the Ashby ATS system up to date from one chat. Manus can add a note, move a candidate to another stage, consider them for another job and create a new candidate. For notes and every other change, ask Manus to show you the change first. Offer and rejection decisions stay with you.

Illustration

Add the debrief as a note on Ava Thompson’s profile and move her to Onsite. Also add Sam Whitfield, who Alex Kim referred, for Senior Backend Engineer. Show me the changes first and wait for my OK.

Note draftWaiting for your OK
ATAva ThompsonSenior Backend Engineer
Debrief, Oct 20

The panel agreed to move forward. Strong system design and clear trade-offs. In the onsite, ask about on-call work and how she handles incidents.

Reply OK and Manus saves the note to the profile.

Changes to check
  • Move Ava Thompson to OnsiteSenior Backend EngineerWaiting for your OK
  • Create candidate Sam Whitfieldsam.whitfield@example.comWaiting for your OK
  • Consider Sam Whitfield for Senior Backend EngineerStarts at Application reviewWaiting for your OK

Reply OK and Manus makes these changes in Ashby.

Add a note after the debrief

Manus drafts the note for the candidate’s profile and can show it to you before it’s saved. It can also reply to an existing note.

Move a candidate to the next stage

Name the candidate and the stage. Manus finds the right application in Ashby and moves it once you say OK.

Add a referral as a new candidate

Give a name and an email. Manus creates the candidate and can add them to a job at its first stage.

Connect the Ashby MCP server to Manus

Ashby is already in Manus Connectors. Once an Ashby admin turns on the MCP server, sign in with your own account and ask in any task.

  1. An Ashby admin turns on MCP Server

    An Ashby org admin opens Admin > Organization Setup > Opt-In Features and turns on MCP Server. It’s done once for the whole organization.

  2. Connect Ashby in Manus

    Open Connectors, choose Ashby, select Connect and sign in with your own Ashby account. People with Elevated Access in Ashby can connect.

  3. Ask in any task

    Mention Ashby and the candidate, role or interview. For new candidates, notes and stage moves, ask Manus to show the change first and wait for your OK.

AshbyStreamline recruiting searches, interview preparation, tasks, and candidate actions

Search candidates and recruiting records, prepare for interviews, review pipelines and pending tasks, and take permitted actions on candidates and applications in Ashby.

ConnectIllustration
  • Signs in with your own Ashby account
  • Sees only the candidates and jobs your Ashby account can see
  • Scorecard lookups return only the feedback you submitted

More ways to use Ashby integrations

Questions about Ashby AI and MCP

How do I connect Ashby to Manus?

First, an Ashby org admin turns on MCP Server in Admin > Organization Setup > Opt-In Features. Then open Connectors in Manus, choose Ashby, select Connect and sign in with your own Ashby account. People with Elevated Access in Ashby can connect. After that, mention Ashby in any task, for example “What interviews do I have this week?”

Is this the same Ashby MCP that Claude and ChatGPT use?

Yes. Manus connects to the MCP server that Ashby hosts, the same one behind the Ashby Claude connector and the Ashby app in ChatGPT. In Manus it’s already in Connectors, so there’s nothing to install or configure.

Can Manus see every candidate in our Ashby account?

No. Each person signs in with their own Ashby account, so Manus sees only the candidates, jobs and interviews that account can already open. Someone who isn’t part of a hiring process can’t look up its candidates through Manus, and other people don’t see what you ask.

Will Manus move a candidate or add a note without asking?

No. Manus makes a change only when you ask, and only what your Ashby permissions allow. For notes and every other change, ask Manus to show you the draft first and wait for your OK; every example on this page does, and you can ask the same in any request. Offer and rejection decisions stay with you and your hiring team.

Can Manus see other interviewers’ scorecards?

No. The Ashby scorecard tool returns only the feedback you submitted yourself, not other interviewers’. When Manus reads a candidate’s profile, it sees earlier feedback only if your Ashby account can already see it there.

Can Manus write my interview feedback?

Yes, as a draft. Paste your notes or describe the interview, and Manus writes the feedback with strengths and concerns for you to edit. You pick the rating and submit the scorecard in Ashby. Manus can also save a summary as a note on the candidate’s profile once you confirm it.

How is this different from Ashby AI features like Ashby Assistant?

Ashby Assistant and the other Ashby AI features work inside the Ashby recruiting software. Manus uses your Ashby recruiting data as one source in a bigger task, together with your files and other apps, for example comparing open roles with a headcount plan in a spreadsheet or drafting a recruiting update for the board.

Does Manus work with the Ashby AI Notetaker?

AI Notetaker is the Ashby feature that records and summarizes interviews inside Ashby. Manus doesn’t record interviews. It reads the transcripts, notes and feedback already on a candidate’s profile, so it can prepare you for the next round or sum up what was said.

Does Manus replace Ashby AI-Assisted Application Review?

No. AI-Assisted Application Review is the Ashby feature that checks applications against criteria your team sets, inside Ashby. Manus summarizes candidates and compares profiles when you ask, but it doesn’t screen applicants for you or make offer or rejection decisions.

Is there an Ashby Slack integration for these updates?

Ashby has its own Slack app. To get the weekly recruiting update from Manus in Slack, connect Slack in Manus as well and name the channel in the task, for example “Post it in #hiring.” To check first, ask Manus to show you the message before it posts.

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