Show HN: InterviewWatch – Detect AI Assistance During Live Technical Interviews

Hiring intelligence for the AI era

Interview Integrity Platform

Interview integrity has quietly become a hiring risk nobody's tracking. InterviewWatch runs alongside your live interviews, flags AI assistance and hidden activity the moment it happens, and signs a tamper-evident report you can point to later. No screen or audio recorded, only the signals that matter.

Interviews are the last unaudited step in hiring. Not anymore.

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Tracks 12+ integrity signals No screen or audio recording Real-time detection

Why it matters

Interview cheating stopped being an edge case.

In under a year, AI assistance during live interviews went from a fringe trick to a funded, mainstream product category. If your interviews aren’t verified, you may already be extending offers on answers that were never the candidate’s.

38%

Cheating is now the default, not the exception

Across 19,368 technical interviews, 38.5% of candidates were flagged for AI-assisted cheating, and the rate climbed from 9% to 45% in a single quarter.

Fabric · State of AI Interview Cheating

$15M

The cheating tools are venture-backed

Cluely, the “cheat on everything” overlay that began as Interview Coder, raised $15M from Andreessen Horowitz. Undetectable interview assistants are now a funded, fast-growing market.

TechCrunch · Cluely raises $15M from a16z

1 in 4

Soon you won’t know who’s real

Gartner predicts that by 2028, 1 in 4 candidate profiles worldwide will be fake, driven by AI-generated identities and stand-in, proxy interviewees.

Gartner, via HR Dive

See how InterviewWatch closes this gap

What the product offers

What ran on their machine, made visible.

InterviewWatch isn't a proctoring tool. It runs a consent-first agent for the length of the interview, watching only machine-level signals, AI overlays, extra displays, clipboard, remote access, virtual cameras, and turns them into a live risk score and a signed report. No screen, audio, or video, ever.

01 / RUN

Run a lightweight signed agent during the interview.

The candidate consents, the agent runs only for the session and exits when it ends, no personal data captured, no media captured.

02 / VERIFY

Verify live interviews without recording private content.

Observe integrity metadata during the session, detect high-risk patterns and surface issues while the interview is still happening.

03 / DECIDE

Close the loop with evidence-grade reports.

Give recruiters, hiring managers and compliance reviewers the same signed record of what happened and why it matters.

LIVEInterview · 24:16candidate view

IWInterviewer

AMAlex M.

DETECTED

AI Assistantalways on top

"How would you shard this service?"

Partition on tenant_id, then route…

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Candidate's screen

metadata only no screen capture

MONITORSession · A. Morganyour view

InterviewWatchMonitoring

Second display detectedReview

AI assistant overlayHigh

Clipboard captureHigh

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Integrity failing AI assistance detected Signed report ready

Your integrity monitor

Watch it unfold in real time: a second screen is flagged, a hidden AI overlay appears, the candidate copies its answer, and on your side each signal fires with a timestamp for you to review, dropping the integrity score and captured as a signed record you can stand behind.

Privacy and compliance

Integrity monitoring without collecting private interview media.

InterviewWatch draws a bright line between integrity metadata and interview content, so teams can protect hiring quality while keeping candidate privacy clear. The agent collects no personal data, it only watches for machine-level integrity signals.

Never touches your content

Your files, code and work stay untouched.

Never records screen, audio or video

Nothing is captured or stored as media.

Never reads files or browser history

No access to your file system or browsing.

Never logs keystrokes or clipboard contents

No keystroke logging, no clipboard access.

Two ways to run it

Run it managed, or license it under your own brand.

Same integrity engine, two clean paths. Want the fastest way to start, with dashboards and ATS sync handled for you? Go managed. Already have your own product or hiring flow, and want it to feel like yours end to end? License the agent and embed it under your brand.

Managed platform

We host and run it for you

1Your recruiters work in one simple dashboard, nothing to install.

2It connects to your hiring system (ATS), so interviews set up automatically.

3Candidates run a small app just for the interview, then it closes on its own.

4We host it all and send the results straight back into your hiring system.

OR

Licensed agent

You embed it under your own brand

1Everything runs under your own brand, your product name, links and look.

2It fits into your own system, set up the way your team already hires.

3Candidate data never lands on our servers, the interview stays between you and the candidate.

4The report stays in your workflow, and you pay only for interviews you run.

Pricing

Plans that map to hiring maturity.

Choose licensed agent pricing for partner workflows or hosted platform plans for teams using InterviewWatch directly.

Pricing type Licensing Hosted Platform

Hosted Platform

Hosted platform, priced by plan.

Run InterviewWatch directly, no integration work required. Plans scale from a free trial to enterprise governance.

Free

$0

5 trial interviews to explore the platform at your own pace.

1 recruiter seat

Live interview monitoring

Candidate consent flow

Signed integrity reports

Email support

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Professional

$5 / interview

Verify live interviews on the hosted platform with your team.

Everything in Free

Company analytics

Team and role workflows

Priority support

Billed per completed interview

Enterprise

Custom

For high-volume teams that need ATS, SSO, governance and support.

Unlimited interview and seat options

ATS integrations

SSO / OIDC and SCIM

Custom retention and DPA

Dedicated success and security review

Licensing

Licensing, priced by volume.

Embed the agent under your own brand. Pricing scales with how many interviews you run, not a flat fee that punishes small partners.

Starter

$3 / interview

For partners running under 1,000 interviews a year.

No platform fee

White-labeled interviewer link

Encrypted relay event stream

Client-side signed report

Billed per completed interview, no-shows never billed

Most popular

Growth

$1 / interview

For partners scaling over 1,000 interviews a year.

$2,000 / year platform fee

Everything in Starter

Priority integration support

Enterprise

Custom

For high-volume partners needing dedicated SLAs.

Custom volume commitment

Dedicated integration support

Custom retention and DPA

Volume-based per-interview rate

FAQ

The questions that come up on the first enterprise call.

Straight answers for legal, security, recruiting operations and hiring managers.

Does InterviewWatch record the candidate's screen, audio, or video?

No. The product is designed around metadata-only integrity signals. It does not record screen, audio, or video content.

What does the candidate install?

The candidate uses a lightweight signed agent for the interview session. It presents the consent flow, runs only during the session and exits when the interview is complete.

How do you reduce false positives?

InterviewWatch correlates multiple independent signal classes and produces a reviewable report. A human still makes the decision; the score points them to the evidence.

Can this work with our ATS?

Yes. Enterprise plans are built for ATS workflows such as Greenhouse, Lever and Workday, with scheduling, notes, report status and decision context connected to the recruiting system.

Can we license InterviewWatch instead of using the hosted app?

Yes. InterviewWatch offers a licensed agent model for partners who want to embed integrity verification inside their own workflow. The candidate still runs the signed native agent, while the interviewer can use a white-labeled browser link and usage is metered by completed interview session.

See it in your workflow

Bring a real role, a real hiring flow and your toughest integrity questions.

In 20 minutes, we will walk through consent-first live interview verification, report review and whether hosted platform or licensed agent deployment fits your team.