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Release Notes May 2026

Written by Jennifer Steinker

Product Updates:

🧩Zapier Integration

Extend hiring intelligence across your wider business stack. Push BrightHire signal into Slack, CRM, project management, and 8,000+ other apps with no-code triggers and actions. Anyone on the team can build these workflows in minutes. Try it here

✅ New Opt In Workflow

Ensure consistent candidate opt-in every time, without relying on your ATS. BrightHire now has the option to share a self-service link in any candidate communication, and candidates can verify their identity, review their upcoming interviews, and choose whether to opt in to recording – all in a few clicks.

🧪 Get Early Access to New Features

📚 BrightHire MCP

Connect AI-powered tools like Claude or Cursor directly to your BrightHire data with the BrightHire MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector. You can query interview content, generate summaries, and surface hiring signals inside your existing AI environment. Sign up for early access here.

❓Insights Explorer (aka Ask Anything)

Ask open-ended questions conversationally and identify trends, compare cohorts, analyze interviewer signal, or dig into what's driving hiring outcomes. Tapping into your interview data has never been so easy. Sign up for early access here.

💬 Hiring Agent in Slack

Chat with BrightHire’s agent in Slack to ask anything about a candidate, compare candidates side by side, get live interview prep tips, and more. Sign up for early access here.

What’s New with BrightHire Screen

📲 Send SMS / Text Message to candidates:

Coming soon! Reach candidates on their preferred channels by adding SMS. With this feature, candidates get a text straight to their phone with their AI interview link, and one tap takes them right into the experience. Learn how to turn it on once it's live in the Help Center.

🗺️ Get early access to Multi-Lingual support:

Expand your AI screening globally with the addition of multi-language support. Spanish and Portuguese are the first languages live, with more on the way. Want early access? Sign up for early access here.

🕵️ Get early access to Interview Integrity:

Candidate fraud is on the rise — and BrightHire now surfaces the signals that help you spot it. Interview Integrity flags AI-assisted, human-assisted, and identity risk indicators directly in your interview review, with the evidence behind every flag. Want to test this feature? Sign up for early access here.

Customer Feature

How Pendo Combined Interview Training and AI Tools to Strengthen Hiring

Pendo made interviewing a shared skill across the company — pairing a company-wide interview training program with a global BrightHire rollout. In our latest customer blog, learn how Pendo used BrightHire to ground hiring decisions in real interview moments, train managers to interview thoughtfully, and create a more structured, transparent process for candidates and interviewers alike.

ICYMI

Interested in on-demand webinars? Visit our webinars page.

Shine 2026 sessions are now on-demand!

Watch: The Next Era of BrightHire. Hear from BrightHire’s Co-founder and CEO Ben Sesser on where we're taking the platform next, and why context is the moat for hiring AI.

Tune in to any of our six sessions with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, LinkedIn, Zoom, Deloitte, HubSpot, Toast, and more.

From the state of AI and where the labor market is heading to rising candidate fraud and quality of hire, our speakers dug into what's really keeping talent leaders up at night right now.

Watch them all here.

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