Recruiting is half judgment, half grunt work. Claude brings the judgment, i.e. the reasoning and the memory, while Crustdata brings 800M+ candidate profiles and 5 recruiting skills via MCP, meaning the manual work runs itself and you get genuinely personalized recruiting at scale, all inside one chat.
Here's the thing about most sourcing tools. They can't actually recruit like you. You hand them a few filters, they run those filters in a black box, and they hand back a list. Every recruiter on the same tool runs the same filters and pulls the same people, which means the judgment that makes you good at this never actually makes it into the search.
We wanted to fix that, and we wanted to fix it where you already work. So we put recruiting inside Claude.
CrustRecruiter is a set of skills you install into Claude via MCP. The split is simple. Claude does the thinking, Crustdata does the manual work. Claude handles the reasoning and remembers your taste, while Crustdata handles everything that used to eat your day, like pulling profiles from 800M+ candidates, verifying emails, mapping markets, and syncing your ATS. That combination is the whole point, because once the grunt work disappears, what's left is real personalized recruiting at a scale no human sourcer could touch.
Describe a role in plain English and the whole loop runs in one chat:
🔎 Sourcing: Hand over a JD, a recorded intake call, or just describe the role, and get a ranked shortlist with a reason behind every single pick.
🗺️ Market mapping: See how big a talent pool actually is, where those people work now, and what they earn, before you commit to a search.
📇 Contact enrichment: Verified personal emails, so the list is ready to send the moment you finish reading it.
🧠 Memory: Every rejection and every "more like this" you give gets remembered, so each new search starts with the feedback from all your previous ones. Over time it sources the way you do.
✉️ Outreach + ATS: Push the shortlist into Gem or Loxo and write the outreach in your voice.
And here's the part we love. It gets better on its own. Every time Anthropic ships a stronger Claude, your recruiter gets smarter too, and you get that upgrade for free the day it lands.
Book a demo and bring a real role you're hiring for. We'll run it with you live. crustdata.com/demo
The memory angle is what makes this interesting, most sourcing tools reset to zero after every search. The "gets smarter when Anthropic ships a better Claude, for free" point is also a genuinely honest value prop, not often you see a product's roadmap outsourced to a foundation model. Question: how does the ATS sync handle cases where a candidate was already in your pipeline from a different source?
I especially like that this isn't just another search API. Features like deep research mode and access to newly indexed content make it stand out from traditional approaches. Congratulations on the launch! 🎉
Really impressed by the level of control you're giving developers with filtering by domains, dates, and locations. That flexibility can make a huge difference when building trustworthy AI experiences.
Recruiting has so much hidden manual work, so bringing sourcing and personalization into Claude makes sense. Curious how much control recruiters get over the “judgment” part before outreach goes out?
Most recruiting tools screen on keywords; teaching one to mirror my judgment on who's a fit is the harder, more useful problem. Given Crustdata's people-search roots, how much of the sourcing is live data vs. me feeding it examples of past good hires?
The real-time event tracking (promotions, job changes, new posts) is exactly what we look for in high-value intent data. Does the API integrate smoothly with standard marketing automation hubs like HubSpot, or is it strictly optimized for custom AI agents right now?
I have been following crustdata for a bit and this is a genuinely smart use of MCP. the part that stands out to me is the memory layer. Most sourcing tools treat every search like it's the first one you've ever done, so you're constantly re-explaining your taste. building feedback loops into the model itself is the right call.
congrats on the launch, will be sharing this with a few people in the recruiting space
Wait, intake call recording → ranked shortlist? That’s dangerously close to magic.
As someone who tests AI workflows, I see so many tools that just dump data without context. The MCP integration with Claude is a smart move as it keeps the human in the loop for the reasoning, while automating the manual grunt work.
How does the 'Memory' feature handle conflicting feedback? For example, if I reject a candidate for one role but would have loved them for another, does it distinguish between role-specific taste and general taste?
Really compelling pitch—tying Claude’s reasoning with Crustdata’s grunt work feels like it solves the ‘black box sourcing’ problem in a fresh way. Curious how well the memory feature adapts when recruiters shift industries or role types—does it relearn quickly?
Really like that every recommendation comes with reasoning instead of a mystery score. :D
Feels like the first recruiting product I've seen that treats judgment as the product. Congrats on launching.
This could be especially useful for lean startup teams without dedicated recruiters. Good stuff.
Can recruiters collaborate and share learned preferences across a hiring team?
Congrats on shipping! How accurate are the compensation insights across different regions and industries??
Congrats. As a power user of Claude, I love this! How quickly Claude adapts to recruiter feedback over multiple hiring cycles?
How do you prevent recruiters from becoming overly reliant on AI-generated shortlists?
About CrustRecruiter on Product Hunt
“Turn Claude into a recruiter that thinks like you”
CrustRecruiter launched on Product Hunt on June 11th, 2026 and earned 200 upvotes and 27 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Recruiting is half judgment, half grunt work. Claude brings the judgment, i.e. the reasoning and the memory, while Crustdata brings 800M+ candidate profiles and 5 recruiting skills via MCP, meaning the manual work runs itself and you get genuinely personalized recruiting at scale, all inside one chat.
CrustRecruiter was featured in Hiring (15.3k followers), Artificial Intelligence (470.7k followers) and Tech (625.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 271.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted CrustRecruiter?
CrustRecruiter was hunted by Garry Tan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Garry Tan
Hey PH! 👋
Here's the thing about most sourcing tools. They can't actually recruit like you. You hand them a few filters, they run those filters in a black box, and they hand back a list. Every recruiter on the same tool runs the same filters and pulls the same people, which means the judgment that makes you good at this never actually makes it into the search.
We wanted to fix that, and we wanted to fix it where you already work. So we put recruiting inside Claude.
CrustRecruiter is a set of skills you install into Claude via MCP. The split is simple. Claude does the thinking, Crustdata does the manual work. Claude handles the reasoning and remembers your taste, while Crustdata handles everything that used to eat your day, like pulling profiles from 800M+ candidates, verifying emails, mapping markets, and syncing your ATS. That combination is the whole point, because once the grunt work disappears, what's left is real personalized recruiting at a scale no human sourcer could touch.
Describe a role in plain English and the whole loop runs in one chat:
🔎 Sourcing: Hand over a JD, a recorded intake call, or just describe the role, and get a ranked shortlist with a reason behind every single pick.
🗺️ Market mapping: See how big a talent pool actually is, where those people work now, and what they earn, before you commit to a search.
📇 Contact enrichment: Verified personal emails, so the list is ready to send the moment you finish reading it.
🧠 Memory: Every rejection and every "more like this" you give gets remembered, so each new search starts with the feedback from all your previous ones. Over time it sources the way you do.
✉️ Outreach + ATS: Push the shortlist into Gem or Loxo and write the outreach in your voice.
And here's the part we love. It gets better on its own. Every time Anthropic ships a stronger Claude, your recruiter gets smarter too, and you get that upgrade for free the day it lands.
Book a demo and bring a real role you're hiring for.
We'll run it with you live. crustdata.com/demo