Developer documentation

Start here

• Quickstart

  Create a key, verify it, search, and unlock a profile.

• Authentication

  Bearer keys, test and live environments, permissions, and rotation.

• Errors and retries

  What each status code means and which failures are safe to retry.

Concepts

• Credits and billing

  How credits are spent, how to estimate work, and how to add credits.

• Rate limits

  What a 429 means, and how to read your limits in the console.

Guides

• Search

  Find people, then unlock a full profile from a result.

• Contacts

  Retrieve an email or phone for one person a search returned.

• Contact jobs

  Batch up to 500 people, with a free estimate first.

• Webhooks

  One signed destination, told when a job finishes.

• Recruiter integrations

  Choose the assistant, automation, or Partner API path.

• MCP V2 tools

  Choose the right tool and understand its effects before calling it.

• Recruiter recipes

  Run shortlist, market kickoff, and ATS rediscovery flows.

Base URL and versioning

All operations live under one base URL. The version is part of the path, so an existing integration keeps working when new fields are added.

https://developer-api.seekout.io/v1

Responses are additive: clients must ignore fields they do not know. See the changelog for the current surface.