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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, 1 in 4 candidate profiles worldwide will be fake, driven by AI-generated identities and stand-in, proxy interviewees.
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.
The candidate consents, the agent runs only for the session and exits when it ends, no personal data captured, no media captured.
Observe integrity metadata during the session, detect high-risk patterns and surface issues while the interview is still happening.
Give recruiters, hiring managers and compliance reviewers the same signed record of what happened and why it matters.
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.
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.
Your files, code and work stay untouched.
Nothing is captured or stored as media.
No access to your file system or browsing.
No keystroke logging, no clipboard access.
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.
Choose licensed agent pricing for partner workflows or hosted platform plans for teams using InterviewWatch directly.
Run InterviewWatch directly, no integration work required. Plans scale from a free trial to enterprise governance.
5 trial interviews to explore the platform at your own pace.
Verify live interviews on the hosted platform with your team.
For high-volume teams that need ATS, SSO, governance and support. Embed the agent under your own brand. Pricing scales with how many interviews you run, not a flat fee that punishes small partners.
For partners running under 1,000 interviews a year.
For partners scaling over 1,000 interviews a year.
For high-volume partners needing dedicated SLAs.
Straight answers for legal, security, recruiting operations and hiring managers.
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.