For companies · free, no procurement

Find people in plain English.

Type the role, the place, the kind of person you actually need. The directory ranks candidates by their own writing, not keyword overlap. Drops into your existing ATS, HRIS, or any agent that speaks MCP.

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60s

first ATS field

24h

MCP sandbox

integrations

MIT

license

searchsenior PM, Zürich, agentic

4 ranked hits · 1.2s

Lena Schneider · lena.blankcollar.me

Senior PM, agentic surfaces. ex-Stripe, ex-Linear. Advisory: selectively.

0.92

Tobias Frey · tobi.blankcollar.me

Staff engineer, MCP infra. Curates ZRH Forum. Speaking: open.

0.87

Anna Vogel · anna.blankcollar.me

Founder, Helios Labs. Pre-seed, agentic compliance for Swiss SMEs.

0.81

What you get

Four tools.
Three of them free, today.

No procurement to start, no annual minimum, no SDK. The pieces are designed to drop into the systems your team already uses, on the day you decide to try them.

Plain English directory.

Type the role, the place, the seniority. We rank candidates by their own writing, not keyword overlap. The file says what they actually do, not what a recruiter rewrote them as.

to four ranked hits≈ 1.2s

Snippet

ATS field, sixty seconds.

A copy-paste HTML block goes into your application form as a custom field. Applicants paste their human.md URL. Agents read it before a recruiter does, with citations to the file.

drop-in supported today8 ATS

Company MCP

Internal endpoint, no admin.

Spin up an endpoint at acme.blankcollar.me/mcp and your hiring agent can ask the directory in MCP. Free, MIT, self-host or hosted, the choice is yours.

MCP standard surface7 tools

Citation

Every reply cites the file.

When an agent replies on behalf of a candidate the answer carries the section it came from. If it is not in the file the agent says so. No hallucinated experience, no coached personas.

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Live tools

Three surfaces.
One open standard.

Switch between the three things you can do today. Search runs against the four hosted profiles. Snippet copies a real ATS field block. MCP spins up a sandbox endpoint your hiring agent can call.

try

ready when you are

type your query, or tap one of the suggestions above. four candidates, ranked, in about a second.

Integrations

It plugs into
what you already run.

Three layers of integration. The ATS layer is a custom field your applicants fill in. The HRIS layer pulls verified employees in once they opt in. The MCP layer lets your hiring agents talk to the protocol directly, no SDK.

Applicant tracking

Drop the human.md field into the application form. Sixty seconds, no integration, no audit. Recruiters keep their flow, agents read the URL before the recruiter does.

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Greenhouse
custom field · 60s
L
Lever
custom field · 60s
A
Ashby
custom field · 60s
W
Workable
custom field · 60s
W
Workday
embed iframe · 5m
B
BambooHR
custom field · 60s
R
Recruitee
custom field · 60s
S
SmartRecruiters
custom field · 60s

Human resources

Your employees publish a public human.md the company can index. Opt in only, the file lives at firstname.blankcollar.me, employees can take it with them.

B
BambooHR
employee opt-in
P
Personio
employee opt-in
H
HiBob
employee opt-in
W
Workday
employee opt-in
R
Rippling
employee opt-in
G
Gusto
employee opt-in
D
Deel
employee opt-in
S
Sapling
employee opt-in

Agents that speak MCP

Any client that speaks Model Context Protocol can call a candidate's endpoint or your company endpoint. No bespoke SDK. Drop the URL into the client and the seven tools light up.

C
Claude Desktop
MCP native · drop in
C
Cursor
MCP native · drop in
C
Cline
MCP native · drop in
C
Continue
MCP plugin
G
Goose
MCP native
G
ChatGPT
via mcp-remote bridge
A
Aider
MCP plugin
Z
Zed
MCP plugin

Questions you have

The questions
procurement asks first.

Pulled from ten interviews with HR, talent, and engineering leaders. If your question is not here, write to us. We will add it.

Is this a database of candidates?

No. There is no central database. Each candidate hosts their own human.md, the directory just indexes the public ones. Delete your file, you disappear from the directory within minutes.

How is this different from LinkedIn search?

We rank against the candidate's own writing, not a recruiter-rewritten profile. The MCP layer means an agent can ask follow-ups grounded in the file. There are no inMails to ration, no premium tier in front of the data.

What does the ATS field actually do?

It is a custom URL field your applicant fills in with their human.md address. Your AI screening tools read the URL before the recruiter does and pull citations from the file. It does not replace anything you have, it adds a richer signal next to the resume.

Will the company MCP endpoint surface employee personal data?

Only what the employee chose to publish. The endpoint is a thin proxy over public human.md files. Private fields stay private, Verifiable Credentials add signed claims without exposing the source data.

Where is data stored, and can we self host?

Hosted endpoints run in the EU primary region with US optional. The parser, the MCP server, and the directory are MIT licensed, you can run all three on your own infrastructure on the day you decide to.

Is this really free?

Yes. The standard is open, MIT licensed, and stewarded by Blank Collar. There is no paid SKU between you and the open file. Anything anyone builds on top of it is a layer above an open base, not a replacement of it.

One file. Yours. Forever.

Hire from a directory that reads back.

Drop a human.md field into your ATS in sixty seconds. Spin up an internal endpoint your hiring agent can call. No procurement, no signup wall.

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