Every question, answered directly

It's a tool that connects your AI chat app (ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor) to a pre-vetted pool of Japan-based professionals. You describe who you're looking for in a normal chat message, and it returns a shortlist of matching people — no separate platform, no boolean search. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard that lets AI apps use outside tools like this one.

No. Setup is copying one web address into a settings menu — no coding, no command line. Once it's connected, you use it by typing normal sentences, the same way you'd chat with ChatGPT or Claude about anything else.

No. The Free plan gives you 50 searches a month with full connector access, and you can sign up without entering payment details. You only need a card if you choose to upgrade to a paid plan later.

About two minutes for Claude or Cursor, and closer to three for ChatGPT, which requires switching on developer mode first. The full step-by-step guide for each tool is on the setup page.

Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor today, plus any other AI application that supports MCP connectors. If your team uses a different AI tool with MCP support, the same connector URL will generally work there too.

Role, skills, industry, seniority, city, and Japanese/English proficiency level, all described in plain English rather than filter menus. You can also search for companies and the people inside them — useful for both hiring and business development.

Yes — this is one of the search filters that AI-Recruit handles natively. Ask for something like "JP native, EN business level" or "conversational Japanese, fluent English" and the search understands it directly, instead of relying on a proxy like years of residence.

Yes. Because it runs inside a normal chat conversation, you can keep narrowing in the same thread — for example, asking to filter the last result down to "only people at companies under 200 employees" — without starting the search over.

Yes. The same connector is used by business development and sales teams to find decision-makers to pitch, by role, industry, and company size — not only by recruiters sourcing candidates.

Yes. Business development teams use it to find decision-makers to pitch, qualify leads before reaching out, and understand who does what inside a target company — all through the same plain-English search used for hiring.

Three differences. You describe candidates in plain English instead of building boolean search strings. It works inside AI chat tools you may already use daily, so there's no new platform to learn. And it's built specifically around Japan hiring, including language-proficiency search, with a free tier instead of an enterprise-only contract.

An agency runs the search for you and typically takes days to weeks plus a placement fee. AI-Recruit lets you run the search yourself, in the words you'd use to brief a colleague, and returns a shortlist in the same conversation — useful when you want speed and control rather than handing the search off.

You can upgrade to a higher plan at any point in your billing cycle to add more searches immediately, rather than waiting for the next month's reset. Check ai-recruit.io/for-recruiters for current plan details.

Yes, paid plans (Lite and Standard) can be cancelled at any time with no long-term contract. Your connector keeps working until the end of the billing period you've already paid for.

Each API key is tied to one account and its monthly search allowance. For multiple team members searching regularly, separate keys — or an upgraded plan with a larger shared allowance — keep usage clearly attributed to each key. Talk to us at ai-recruit.io/for-recruiters about team setups.

Current published pricing is monthly (Free, Lite at $25/month, Standard at $75/month). For annual billing or custom volume, contact the team directly through ai-recruit.io/for-recruiters.

AI-Recruit's pool is made up of professionals who are discoverable for opportunities, and searches surface professional information relevant to hiring and business development — not private personal data. Specific data-handling questions are best directed to the team at ai-recruit.io.

The two most common issues are pasting the connector URL with the placeholder text still in it instead of your real key, and testing in a chat that was open before the connector was added — start a new conversation after connecting. The full setup guide covers each tool step by step.