Smaya Comes to Microsoft Teams: Exterview's Hiring Agent for Every Hiring Team

Smaya Comes to Microsoft Teams: Exterview's Hiring Agent for Every Hiring Team

For many organizations, hiring decisions get made in Microsoft Teams. Hiring managers coordinate in chats, interview panels meet in channels, and leaders want quick updates between meetings.

But the hiring data they need lives on the Exterview platform, and most hiring managers don't want to learn another dashboard just to check on a candidate.

So today we're excited to announce that Smaya, the Exterview hiring agent, is now available in Microsoft Teams via MCP. Connect your Exterview account, and Teams becomes the interface where recruiters and hiring managers talk to Smaya. Ask in plain English, and get answers grounded in your real hiring data, without leaving Teams.

How it fits together.

Exterview is the platform. It runs your hiring workflow and holds your data: JD Intelligence, Resume Intelligence, Voice and Avatar Interviews, Human Interview Orchestration and background verification.

Smaya is the agent. It works across the Exterview platform to find the right data and take action on your behalf.

Microsoft Teams is the interface. It's where your hiring managers and panels already work, so Smaya meets them there.

Give hiring managers answers on demand.

Hiring managers shouldn't have to wait on a recruiter for every update. With Smaya in Teams, they can just ask:

• "What's the status of my open Product Designer role?"
• "Summarize Arya's avatar interview and the panel's feedback."
• "Who should I prioritize from this week's shortlist, and why?"
• "Has the background check for my selected candidate cleared?"

Recruiters get fewer status pings, and hiring managers get faster, more consistent answers.

Run smoother interview panels.

Smaya helps panels stay prepared and aligned:

• "Share a briefing note with the panel before tomorrow's interview with Arya."
• "Create a debrief summary for the final round in the hiring channel."
• "Give leadership a pipeline update across all open roles in my department."

Everyone works from the same Exterview data, in the same Teams channel.

Enterprise-ready and secure.

Smaya connects to Microsoft Teams through MCP (the Model Context Protocol), an open standard for linking AI agents to the tools you use. Each person signs in with their own Exterview account, and Smaya only sees what their Exterview permissions already allow. Candidate data stays on the Exterview platform, and Smaya fetches only what's needed for each request.

Get started in minutes.

1. Find Exterview in the Microsoft Teams app store (or ask your Teams admin to approve it).
2. Click Add and choose the chats or teams to use it in.
3. Sign in with your Exterview account as usual.

That's it. Mention @Smaya in a chat or channel to get started.

Here is a walkthrough on how Smaya works via Microsoft teams: Check it out

Try Smaya in Microsoft Teams today.

The Exterview app for Microsoft Teams is available now. If you already use Exterview, add it to Teams today. If you're new to Exterview, it's the easiest way to bring every hiring manager into a faster, more conversational hiring process.