MCP shares Smaya’s foundation exactly: grounded and cited, specific to your
organization, human-approved for anything that changes data, and fully
audited. Reaching Exterview from outside never loosens those controls. See
Meet Smaya.
What MCP is designed to do
Ask from where you work
Upcoming. Query candidate, job, and report data from an approved assistant in your existing workspace, without opening Exterview.
Grounded, cited answers
Upcoming. Answers come back with citations to the underlying Exterview
record, the same as Smaya in-app.
Specific to your organization, by identity
Upcoming. The gateway resolves your organization and role from your
credentials; there is no access to another customer’s data and no widening of
your own permissions.
Read-first, human-approved actions
Upcoming. External reach begins read-only. Any action that changes data is proposed and waits for human approval, never executed autonomously.
Example use cases
Hiring manager in Copilot
Ask how the top three candidates for a role scored, from Microsoft 365 Copilot, and get a cited answer.
Recruiter status check
Ask which candidates are waiting on a decision, without leaving your
assistant.
Leadership summary
Pull a plain-language summary of a role’s pipeline health into a chat surface
leadership already uses.
Compliance lookup
Retrieve the evidence trail for a specific evaluation, scoped to what your role is allowed to see.
The controls that hold at this tier
Governed gateway
Only approved external assistants can connect, through a controlled surface, not a general-purpose data feed.
Read-only first
The external surface starts read-only; acting capabilities arrive later behind
the same human approval gate as Smaya.
Fully audited
Every external query and its answer is logged with its trace for compliance
review.
No new permissions
MCP can never reach data or actions the connected person could not reach in Exterview themselves.
FAQs
Is MCP available today?
Is MCP available today?
No. It is on the roadmap. This page describes what it is designed to do so you can plan for it.
How is this different from Smaya in the app?
How is this different from Smaya in the app?
Same intelligence and same controls, different surface. Smaya answers inside
Exterview; MCP lets an approved external assistant ask Exterview from where
you already work.
Can an external assistant change our data?
Can an external assistant change our data?
Not autonomously. External reach starts read-only, and any future acting
capability runs through the same human approval gate as the rest of Smaya.
Which external assistants will be supported?
Which external assistants will be supported?
Approved assistants such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, connected through the governed gateway. The supported list is confirmed as the capability ships.
Related
Meet Smaya
The companion and its three tiers, one governed foundation.
How Smaya Works
The agent loop and the human approval gate.
Human Oversight
The control model that holds at every tier.
Upcoming
Where MCP sits on the roadmap.