Your consultants work JobAdder by asking.
We connect Claude to your JobAdder, put every consultant on their own login, and train them on their real work. Then every week you get a straight report on who's using it, for what, and what got in the way.
Two people use the whole toolkit. Everyone else uses a corner of it.
- Requests to JobAdder through Claude
- 8,036
- People in the office using it
- 7 of 7
- Changes written back to JobAdder
- 67
- Requests that failed
- 0.4%
93% of it was finding and reading records. We said so, and started a weekly ‘one thing to try’.
What it looks like on the desk.
On its own, Claude writes. Connected to JobAdder through NativeMCP, our connector, it does the work as well: it searches your candidates, reads the notes, builds the shortlist and sets the reminders, all under the consultant's own name.
Nobody learns a new system. They ask the way they'd ask a sharp new starter, and check the work the same way. Some examples:
- Consultants
Read this CV and tell me which of our open jobs it fits, and why.
- Owners
Which contractors finish in the next four weeks?
- Back office
Find candidates who look like they were entered twice.
- Consultant
Find senior .NET engineers in Brisbane with fintech experience who haven't heard from us this month.
- Claude
I found 12. The best five have between 8 and 15 years in .NET, four of them in payments. Here's why each one fits the Lead Engineer role. Want them on the shortlist?
Searched candidates and notes in JobAdder - Consultant
Yes. And remind me to call the top three tomorrow morning.
- Claude
Done. Five added to the shortlist, and three call reminders set for 9am tomorrow.
Updated the job and created 3 tasks in JobAdder
Three things that happened at one agency, and what we did about them.
A recruitment agency of about ten people, on JobAdder, working with us through 2026. We've left their name out. The numbers are real.
91% of 33,820 candidates were marked Active. One had been since 1999.
Nine in ten were still marked Active, the status they were given when they were entered. Only 24 were marked Do Not Contact. So a search for active candidates returned about 30,000 people, many of them likely retired, moved on or entered twice.
The same look had good news in it. Searching CVs for what people have done worked from day one: one search for a specialist skill set found 3,800 matching candidates.
What we proposed: agreed rules for what Active means, a clean-up of the 4,347 client records we'd analysed, and a small website where old candidates update their own details. The rules come first. Cleaning up before they exist just makes a new mess.
A fault in our connector, and how it was caught.
This one was ours. One of the owners asked Claude for one type of note from the last few months, and got back every note in the system, all 874,560, with no warning. We traced it to a fault in how our connector sent searches to JobAdder. It was quietly ignoring filters in 18 of the 27 areas the connector covers.
Most filtered searches still gave plausible answers, so the fault was easy to miss.
What we did: fixed it that week, added tests so it can't come back, and explained it in plain words in that week's report. A filter JobAdder can't apply is now an error, not a silent pass.
- Activities, filter dropped
- Applications, filter dropped
- Attachments, not affected
- Candidates, filter dropped
- Categories, not affected
- Companies, filter dropped
- Contacts, filter dropped
- Email compose, not affected
- Floats, filter dropped
- Folders, filter dropped
- Interviews, filter dropped
- Job boards, not affected
- Jobs, filter dropped
- Lookup lists, not affected
- Lookups, filter dropped
- Notes, filter dropped
- Opportunities, filter dropped
- Placements, filter dropped
- Requisitions, filter dropped
- Search, not affected
- Sign-in, not affected
- SMS, not affected
- Submissions, filter dropped
- Timesheets, filter dropped
- Users, filter dropped
- Video, not affected
- Webhooks, filter dropped
Filters dropped Not affected
A thousand lookups a morning became one request.
One consultant had Claude building a daily call list the long way: about a thousand separate JobAdder lookups every morning, each one slow and each one a chance to fail. We saved the consultant's rules as a routine on our server. Now the consultant makes one request, our server does the sifting, and the list comes back without anyone who was on it in the last four weeks or from the backgrounds they don't want.
You deal with a technology recruiter, not a software vendor.
Aaron Thomas founded Digital Native in 2016, after leading technology recruitment at Hudson and running Davidson's technology business across Queensland and New South Wales. Twenty years on the desk, recruiting everyone from engineers to CTOs. He built NativeMCP for his own desk first.
Yes, we recruit technology people in Brisbane too. So here's the deal: we use a consultant's JobAdder sign-in only to carry out that consultant's own requests, we keep no copy of what comes back, and you can switch anyone off instantly. Ask for a confidentiality and non-use agreement before you connect anything.
Running more than one brand?
- Each JobAdder account gets its own workspace, locked to that account. Brands that share one JobAdder account share one workspace.
- Each workspace has its own switches. Turn off the tools a brand doesn't need, including sending SMS.
- Each gets its own weekly report, with a team version that ranks nobody.
- Roll it out one desk or office at a time. Everyone signs in as themselves, so nothing is shared between brands by accident.
What it costs.
- A Claude Team plan for each person. Paid to Anthropic at their published price. We recommend Team because Anthropic doesn't train its models on Team data.
- Our work, quoted per piece. After a first call you get an itemised quote, and you can say yes to one piece at a time.
- A free 14-day trial of the connector on your own data, if you'd rather see it before talking money.
Questions owners ask.
New to all this? Read the plain-English guide.
Why not just use ChatGPT, or hire an AI champion?
ChatGPT, or Claude on its own, is good with words but can't see your database, so the work stops at copy and paste. An AI champion is a good hire, but they'd still need a safe way into JobAdder and a playbook that works on a recruitment desk. That's what we bring.
Why not JobAdder's own AI features?
Use them. JobAdder's AI works inside its own screens, for example refreshing old candidate profiles in the background. NativeMCP is different: your consultants ask Claude for anything across the whole database, in their own words, and the work lands in JobAdder. The two sit side by side.
Could our own AI person just use NativeMCP?
Yes. The connector is available on its own, and the free trial is exactly that. What an engagement adds is the look at your desk and database, the routines, the handbook and the weekly report.
Will it replace my consultants?
No. It does the searching, clicking and typing around the job. The calls, the judgement and the relationships stay with your people, and they get more time for them.
Can it message candidates or clients?
It can send an SMS through JobAdder, but only when a consultant asks it to in the conversation. If you'd rather it never did, we switch messaging off for your agency. Deleting records is off by default.
Is our candidate data safe? You're a recruiter too.
Everyone signs in with their own JobAdder login and sees only what they already could. We keep no copy of your candidates and we don't train AI on your data; on the Claude Team plan, neither does Anthropic. Our records show who used which tool and when, not what they searched or what came back. The full detail is here.
What happens if something breaks, or we stop?
Tell us and we fix it, Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm. Keeping the connector working when JobAdder or Anthropic change something is our job, not yours. If you stop, we switch your workspace off and every sign-in with it, and you keep the handbook and the skills.
What do I need already?
JobAdder, and a Claude Team plan for each person who'll use it. Nothing to install, and nothing changes in how JobAdder works.
We don't use JobAdder. Can you still help?
The connector is built for JobAdder. If you're on something else, talk to us and we'll tell you honestly what's possible.