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Velocity5.0

Modern HR platform for global workforce management

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HiBob is methodically turning Bob into a programmable system of record for HR.

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◆Current state
HiBob is in a sustained API-expansion phase, opening nearly every part of Bob — hiring, attendance, time off, goals, learning, and employee data — to programmatic access. Recent releases add full-lifecycle attendance management, new hiring endpoints, and an OAuth-based MCP server for connecting AI tools. The consistent goal is to make Bob the authoritative, integrable HR data layer.
◆Where it's heading
The direction is developer- and integration-first: each release either fills an API gap or hardens access controls, and the newer MCP and field-level-permission work points toward secure AI-agent access to HR data. HiBob is building the plumbing for Bob to sit at the center of a customer's HR tech stack rather than as an endpoint. The surface is likely to keep widening endpoint by endpoint.
◆Prediction
The OAuth MCP server and field-level permissions suggest a more secure, agent-ready API surface is coming next, likely extending MCP tool coverage across the same domains the Public API already spans.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Bob MCP Server: Now uses OAuth with expanded tools

    The Bob MCP Server moves to OAuth-based user access with an expanded tool set, making AI-tool connections to Bob more secure. It is the clearest signal yet that HiBob's API build-out is bending toward agent-ready access, not just traditional integrations.

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  2. 17d ago

    Goals API: startValue added to key results

    A new startValue field on measurable key results lets integrations store the baseline for 'from X to Y' goals, including decreasing measures. A small but real gap-fill in the Goals API, consistent with HiBob's incremental endpoint-hardening cadence.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Hiring API: Additional endpoints

    New Hiring API search endpoints expose deeper candidate and workflow data — interviews, evaluations, offers. It extends the Hiring API surface introduced in April, moving Bob toward complete programmatic coverage of recruiting.

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  4. 1mo ago

    Time Off API: Access calendar events

    A new Time Off endpoint lets integrations sync company calendar events such as holidays and closures out of Bob. Another gap-fill that treats Bob as the source of truth other tools read from.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Employee data webhooks: table entry events payload updated

    Webhook payloads for table entry events now include row identifiers only when relevant to the table type — a cleanup that trims noise without changing capability. Housekeeping on the existing webhook surface.

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  6. 2mo ago

    Learning API: Add your own learning content

    The Learning API can now ingest an external provider's course catalog into Bob Learning and keep completion progress in sync, centralizing learning data for reporting and compliance. It broadens Bob's role from HR record-keeper toward a hub for learning content too.

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