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Log interview feedback as Manatal candidate notes

After a round of interviews the feedback lives in your head, a doc or a chat thread, and the candidate's Manatal profile stays empty until someone types it in.

Cotlet does it in your own Manatal account with search_candidates, list_candidate_notes and add_candidate_note, called by your AI agent, an n8n workflow or a script.

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Can Manatal do this on its own?

Manatal's MCP server has add_candidate_note and list_candidate_notes, and notes accept HTML formatting, but only on Enterprise Plus (checked 20 Oct 2026). Professional and Enterprise accounts have no API or MCP to write a note. Zapier's Create Candidate Note action needs Open API access as well.

How you do it in Manatal today

  1. Open the candidate profile, or a job or an organization (client or department), and go to the Notes tab.
  2. Click Add Note and type the feedback.
  3. To tag a team member, type @ and pick the person from the dropdown. Tagged members get a notification.
  4. Click Save. An open note can be edited from another page and stays available until you save it.
  5. The routine repeats for every candidate after every round, and feedback typed days later has lost its detail.

How to log interview feedback as Manatal candidate notes

Prompt

Find Daniel Reyes in Manatal, turn my interview comments into a short note with strengths, concerns and a recommendation, and tag Lena Fischer.
  1. 01

    Find the right candidate

    Your agent calls search_candidates with the name or email from your prompt. If two profiles match, it lists both with position and company and asks which one, so a note never lands on a namesake.

  2. 02

    Read what is already there

    list_candidate_notes shows earlier notes on the profile. If your feedback was already saved, for example from a previous run, the agent says so and adds nothing.

  3. 03

    Shape the feedback

    The agent turns your raw comments into a short note: strengths, concerns, recommendation. It shows you the text before anything is saved, so you can change wording or drop a line.

  4. 04

    Save and tag

    add_candidate_note writes the note and tags the team members you named. Manatal notifies every tagged person, so the call reaches other people and waits for your OK until you switch confirmation off for it.

  5. 05

    Report back

    The agent returns the candidate, the note id and who was tagged, and lists any name it could not match to a Manatal user instead of guessing.

What you get back

Example data

Candidate: Daniel Reyes, Senior Product Designer
Note saved: Strengths: portfolio depth, clear case-study writing. Concern: no B2B experience. Recommendation: second round.
Tagged: Lena Fischer
Earlier notes on the profile: 2, none repeat this one

Other ways to ask

  • After each interview in my calendar today, ask me for comments and save a note per candidate.
  • Add the same note to all three finalists for Product Designer and tag the hiring manager.
  • Show me every note on Daniel Reyes and summarize the history in five lines, change nothing.

What Manatal allows, and what to know first

  • Manatal keeps notes on candidates, jobs and organizations, each in its own Notes tab, so feedback on a candidate does not show up on the job.
  • Typing @ in a note opens a dropdown of team members, and each tagged member gets a notification.
  • Manatal's MCP server accepts HTML formatting in notes, so bold and bullet lists carry over where the editor shows them.
  • Which candidates you can reach follows your role: Manager, Consultant and Recruiter see public organizations and the jobs of their teams.

add_candidate_note asks for your OK by default. To run it on a schedule without you, switch confirmation off for that tool in your dashboard.

Sources: Manatal Help: Creating a Note · Manatal Help: MCP Server · Manatal Help: Zapier triggers and actions · Manatal Help: Candidate Matches Page

Call add_candidate_note from a script

curl

curl -X POST https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/manatal/candidates/48213/note \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"body":"Strengths: portfolio depth, clear case-study writing. Concern: no B2B experience. Recommendation: second round.","mentions":["Lena Fischer"]}'

Example response

{
  "note_id": 9187,
  "candidate_id": 48213,
  "tagged": [
    "Lena Fischer"
  ],
  "created_at": "2026-10-20T10:12:00Z"
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the call is manatal_write → add_candidate_note. Example data.

Schedule it in n8n, Make, Zapier or cron

Manatal tools this automation uses

Cotlet Manatal tools used to log interview feedback as Manatal candidate notes
Tool Parameters
search_candidates query, tag, cursor
list_candidate_notes candidate_id, cursor
add_candidate_note candidate_id, body, mentions
All 13 Manatal tools with descriptions

Frequently asked questions

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