Connect your app to Ashby

Connect Ashby to your Lovable app to work with jobs, candidates, applications, and hiring workflows through the Ashby API and Lovable’s connector gateway.

Ashby is an applicant tracking and recruiting operations platform. The Ashby app + chat connector lets your Lovable app call the Ashby HTTP API through Lovable’s connector gateway using an API key, so secrets are not hard-coded in your repository.

Ashby is available as an app + chat connector: one shared connection that works in the chat while you build and in your published apps.

With Ashby connected, your app can:

• List and manage job postings and openings
• Search and view candidates and applications
• Create and update candidates and applications programmatically (within API and permission limits)
• Work with interview and pipeline data where exposed by the API

Ashby is a strong fit when recruiting is centralized in Ashby and you want internal or candidate-facing tools that stay in sync with your ATS.

Common use cases and example apps

Example app	Example prompt	Description
Open roles page	Build a careers page that lists live Ashby jobs with title, location, and apply link.	Public job board driven by Ashby as the source of truth.
Referral form	When an employee submits a referral, create or update a candidate in Ashby with their note.	Internal referrals flow into the ATS without manual retyping.
Recruiter console	Build a small app that searches candidates by email and shows their current stage.	Fast lookup for coordinators and recruiters.
Interview prep	For a given application ID, show upcoming interviews from Ashby.	Scheduling context in one place for hiring managers.
Pipeline snapshot	Show counts of applications by stage for our flagship role.	Lightweight analytics on top of Ashby data.

How Ashby connections work

• API key: You create an API key in Ashby and paste it into Lovable as API key. The gateway attaches it to outbound requests; it is not exposed in client-side bundles as plain project text.
• Gateway: Traffic goes through Lovable’s connector gateway. See Gateway-based connectors for token handling and per-project request limits.

Ashby subscription limits, API quotas, and feature availability are governed by Ashby, not Lovable.

How to connect Ashby

Workspace admins and owners can connect Ashby.

When a connection is created, link it to the projects that should use Ashby.

Prerequisites

• An Ashby account with permission to create API keys
• Lovable workspace admin or owner role

Step 1: Create an Ashby API key

1. Sign in to Ashby and open Admin (or your organization’s settings area for integrations).
2. Go to API keys and create a key with the minimum scopes your app needs.

Ashby’s UI entry point: API keys. For request shapes and endpoints, use Ashby API reference.

Step 2: Connect Ashby in Lovable

1. Open Connectors and select Ashby.
2. Click Add connection.
3. Enter a Display name (for example Ashby Production).
4. Paste the API key.
5. Click Create / Save. Lovable verifies the key against Ashby.

Limitations

• The connector represents one Ashby workspace API key per connection—not each candidate’s or employee’s personal Ashby login.
• Field-level and workflow rules inside Ashby still apply; the API cannot bypass Ashby permissions you have not granted to the key.
• Gateway limits apply as described in Gateway-based connectors.

Manage your connection

Connections are managed from Connectors: select , then open the connection.

• Unlink projects to remove access from specific projects while keeping the connection available for others. See Unlink projects from a connection for the steps.
• Delete the connection to remove it from the workspace entirely. Deleting is permanent. It removes the credentials from all linked projects, and app features that use stop working until a new connection is added. See Delete a connection for the steps and who can delete.