At the 2026 HR Technology Conference & Exposition, Survale will announce new infrastructure that makes talent experience data accessible to AI agents and enterprise analytics platforms for the first time. The company, known for its talent feedback and analytics platform, will exhibit at Booth 3810 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas from October 20-22. The announcements include an MCP server, an Analytics API, an upgraded SurvaleAI, and a new certification program for hiring managers, alongside the 2026 CandE Award winners.
The centerpiece is Survale's new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and Analytics API, which together position Survale as the experience data layer for the AI-powered talent stack. As organizations deploy AI agents across HR and talent acquisition, those agents are only as smart as the data they can reach. The MCP server allows client AI agents to securely retrieve live Survale metrics and trends within any agentic process or output, enabling automated executive briefings, recruiting operations workflows, and AI-generated reporting. The Analytics API automatically pulls Survale talent experience data into business intelligence solutions like Power BI, Tableau, or dedicated people analytics platforms such as Visier, Splash BI, or Crunchr. Data can be accessed as fully rendered dashboard widgets or raw data, with initial metrics including Overall Candidate NPS, Hiring Manager Satisfaction, Completion %, and trend data for each, all with operational filters like location, recruiter, job family, and source.
SurvaleAI has also received a significant upgrade, now utilizing a team of expert agents to analyze full data sets, from statistical data to free-form comments. This new version acts as an expert talent experience analyst, answering questions and surfacing insights tied to operational data. It can analyze dashboard, survey, and comment data, save and share prompts between users, and be activated from any dashboard via a new Prompt Widget. It also provides context-sensitive suggestions for reducing problems and leveraging successes.
In addition, the industry's first research-backed Hiring Manager Candidate Experience Certification is now generally available. Built on 15 years of CandE Benchmark Research spanning over 2 million candidates across 2,000+ employers, the program includes five 10-minute modules covering interviewer mindset, pre-interview alignment, structured interviewing, post-interview execution, and feedback optimization. It offers practical tools like the Panel Role-Assigner Matrix, 15-Minute Scorecard Method, and Disposition Script Bank. Certified managers see their own live candidate sentiment from the Survale platform, closing the feedback loop and enabling continuous improvement. The certification is enterprise-ready, delivered via a white-label branded portal or SCORM-compliant modules in any LMS.
Survale also announced the winners of the 2026 CandE Benchmark Research Program awards, recognizing employers with the highest-rated candidate experiences based directly on candidate feedback. The full list of winners is available at https://survale.com/cande-award-winners/. Registration for the 2027 CandE program is now open for companies interested in benchmarking their candidate experience against the industry's leading research dataset.
These developments matter because they address a critical gap: AI agents and analytics platforms have been transforming talent decisions but lacked access to human-centric experience data. By making this data available through standard protocols and APIs, Survale enables organizations to integrate candidate and hiring manager feedback directly into automated workflows and BI tools, leading to more informed, data-driven decisions. The certification program further ensures that hiring managers not only have access to data but also the skills to act on it, potentially improving candidate experience and quality of hire. As Jason Moreau, CEO of Survale, noted, the theme of this year's show is moving from change to transformation, and these announcements deliver exactly that. For more information, visit survale.com.
