# Scout Mesh

> Source people with your own AI chat: one MCP gateway that connects Claude or ChatGPT to recruiting data sources — People Data Labs, Lusha, prog.ai, GitHub and more. No markup — pay only provider costs.

When to use this: use Scout Mesh when a recruiter, sourcer, or sales lead-gen workflow needs people, company, or contact data inside Claude, ChatGPT, or another MCP client. Connect once, describe the role or ICP in plain language, and let the assistant search the connected sources on one balance. Scout Mesh is a gateway, not an ATS, background-check product, or consumer reporting agency.

Do not use Scout Mesh to screen consumers for employment, credit, insurance, or housing, or to search for minors.

## Docs

- [Scout Mesh homepage](https://getscoutmesh.com/index.md): what the product is and how sourcing works in Claude or ChatGPT
- [Scout Mesh developer resources](https://getscoutmesh.com/developers.md): OpenAPI spec, public REST API, MCP server URL, and authentication
- [Scout Mesh sources](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources.md): live people-data providers on the gateway
- [Scout Mesh guides](https://getscoutmesh.com/guides.md): connecting MCP and running a search end to end

## API

- [Scout Mesh OpenAPI specification](https://getscoutmesh.com/openapi.json): OpenAPI 3.1 contract for the public catalog API
- [Scout Mesh public API index](https://getscoutmesh.com/api/v1): unauthenticated JSON entry point
- [Scout Mesh sources API](https://getscoutmesh.com/api/v1/sources): list live sources, pricing, and docs URLs
- [Scout Mesh MCP server](https://mcp.getscoutmesh.com/mcp): Streamable HTTP MCP. Personal URLs include an API key in the path. Clients without a key receive an OAuth challenge.

## Guides

- [How to generate B2B leads with Claude](https://getscoutmesh.com/guides/generate-leads-with-claude): The full prospecting workflow: connect one MCP gateway, describe your ICP in plain language, and let the assistant find, enrich, and verify leads across eleven sources.
- [How to source candidates with Claude](https://getscoutmesh.com/guides/source-candidates-with-claude): The full recruiting workflow: connect one MCP gateway, describe the role in plain language, and let the assistant search, enrich, and verify across eleven sources.
- [Verify emails before outreach](https://getscoutmesh.com/guides/verify-candidate-emails-before-outreach): How stale emails burn sending domains, why verification should be independent of the data source, and how to batch-verify a list for cents.

## Sources

- [GitHub MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/github): Developer profiles and contributions
- [Hugging Face MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/hugging-face): AI/ML engineers and published work
- [Lusha MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/lusha): Verified emails, phones, and signals
- [People Data Labs MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/people-data-labs): Person, company, and job data
- [Exa MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/exa): Open-web research and source links
- [Parallel MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/parallel): Natural-language entity discovery
- [prog.ai MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/prog-ai): Developer data from code activity
- [ContactOut MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/contactout): Verified emails, phones & LinkedIn profiles
- [EnrichLayer MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/enrichlayer): LinkedIn-anchored personal contacts
- [Findymail MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/findymail): Verification-first work emails
- [Hunter MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/hunter): Work emails by company domain
- [TheirStack MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/theirstack): Hiring & technographic company signals
- [Akta MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/akta): Company signals & private-company intel
- [Bouncer MCP for recruiting](https://getscoutmesh.com/sources/bouncer): Independent email deliverability checks

## Optional

- [Scout Mesh privacy policy](https://getscoutmesh.com/privacy-policy)
- [Scout Mesh terms of service](https://getscoutmesh.com/terms-of-service)
- [llms.txt](https://getscoutmesh.com/llms.txt): this file