How it works
Capifiq runs alongside the interviews you already conduct on Zoom, Teams, and Meet. It verifies the interview environment in real time and delivers timestamped, tamper-evident proof of what happened — no platform migration, no behavioral guesswork, no lockdown on the candidate.
The problem
A subscription industry now sells AI assistance directly to candidates, built for one purpose: to be invisible during a live interview. These tools render answers on a transparent overlay only the candidate can see, listen to the interviewer through the machine's own audio, or run a second assistant in a browser tab — and generate an expert-sounding response in a second or two. Many are marketed, explicitly, as "undetectable" on Zoom, Teams, and Meet.
It is not a fringe problem, and it is not slowing down. The economics are one-sided: a monthly subscription costs less than dinner, and the prize is a six-figure role. The category keeps growing, and every new tool that ships widens the surface a hiring team has to defend.
The blind spot
The defenses most teams rely on were designed for a different threat, and the newest tools are built specifically to slip past all three:
Screen sharing only transmits the surface the operating system is told to share. A tool that draws its overlay outside that surface — or runs on a second device entirely — never enters the stream your interviewer sees.
Browser proctoring lives inside the browser tab. It can watch tab switches and copy-paste, but it has no window into native desktop applications or the wider system the interview runs on — and today's overlays are native desktop applications, invisible to anything confined to a browser tab.
Behavioral analysis infers cheating from gaze, posture, and response timing. It is indirect by nature: it can flag an honest, nervous candidate and still miss a careful one — and it adapts more slowly than the tools it is chasing.
What the usual defenses miss
Capifiq takes a different position. Instead of inferring intent from behavior or matching a list of known product names, it verifies the interview environment directly and records what it finds as evidence — coverage that does not depend on the specific tool already being known.
Capifiq fits around the interview process you already use. Create the session, invite the candidate, monitor integrity live, review any findings, and finish with a sealed report.
Add the meeting URL and interview details. Capifiq creates a protected session around your existing Zoom, Teams, or Meet interview.
Capifiq emails the candidate clear instructions and a secure link to download and run the Capifiq Agent before the interview.
While the interview is running, the interviewer can confirm session integrity and watch verified events appear on the live dashboard.
When Capifiq surfaces a finding, the interviewer can inspect the timestamped evidence and decide how to proceed with the interview.
At the end of the interview, Capifiq creates an integrity report with the session timeline, findings, timestamps, and sealed evidence.
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Capifiq detects any unauthorized assistance running on the device — these are the common vectors, not a fixed list. Each describes what a candidate can abuse during an interview.
Desktop and web tools that transcribe the interview and surface generated answers on an overlay only the candidate sees.
AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Chrome Remote Desktop and similar tools that let another person view or drive the candidate's machine.
VMware, VirtualBox and emulators used to isolate the visible interview from a second workspace running unauthorized tools.
OBS, ManyCam and injected feeds used to replace the live webcam with pre-recorded or manipulated video.
Extensions and web apps that listen to the interview and generate suggested answers in a side panel or background tab.
Selective capture, overlays, extra displays and virtual-display tricks that present a clean shared screen while hiding content elsewhere.
Coverage is not a list of product names. Because it verifies the environment rather than matching known binaries, Capifiq surfaces this behavior even when the specific tool is renamed, privately built, or brand new — the kind a signature-based scanner has not catalogued yet.
The evidence
Behavioral tools hand you a suspicion score and ask you to trust it. That puts the hardest judgment — was this person actually cheating? — back on the interviewer, with nothing solid to stand on.
Capifiq is built the opposite way. A finding is deterministic: the condition was present in the session, or it was not. Each one is timestamped, hashed at capture, and sealed into the report, so it holds up when a hiring decision is questioned. You are not asked to interpret a number — you are handed a record.
Every finding carries
Privacy by design
Capifiq documents exactly what can be captured during a monitored interview, which actions the interviewer controls, and how long records are kept. Collection happens only during the interview session — nothing before it starts or after it ends.
Bot present
When the Capifiq meeting bot is included in the interview, the session screens are recorded for that session.
Interviewer controlled
The interviewer can capture a screenshot of any display at any moment, whether it is currently being shared or not.
Always captured
Control-key combinations and monitored hotkey activity are captured throughout the active interview.
Enterprise retention
Interview data, including sealed integrity evidence, is retained to match your enterprise retention policy, for review and dispute resolution.
The agent observes and reports. It never decides. It does not block, terminate, or restrict the candidate's machine, and it runs only inside the scheduled interview window. Findings go to the interviewer; a person makes the call.
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