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Quick start

From a brand new account to a first monitored interview and a signed report. Roughly ten minutes, most of it waiting for the candidate.

1. Create your account

Sign up at app.interviewwatch.com with your work email. The first person to sign up for a company becomes its admin: they can invite the rest of the team, connect an ATS, and change company-wide settings.

Check your inbox for the verification link. Until you verify, a banner sits at the top of the dashboard and some actions stay locked. If the mail has not arrived, click Resend in that banner.

Free to start. A new account includes 5 monitored interviews and 2 active jobs, with no card on file. See plans and billing for what changes when you upgrade.

2. Add a job

Open Jobs and add one. A job is a name plus a role, for example Payments Platform and Senior Backend Engineer. Every interview and every pipeline card hangs off a job, so this comes first.

Jobs can be closed later. A closed job keeps its history but stops accepting new applicants and new rounds.

3. Add a candidate

Open Candidates and add a name and email. Candidates are company-wide: one record can sit in several jobs' pipelines, and their interview history follows them.

If you are running the built-in ATS, you can skip this page entirely and add people straight onto the pipeline board, or let your career page post them in through the apply API.

4. Schedule a monitored interview

Full detail, including scheduling from a pipeline card, is in schedule an interview.

5. Send the candidate their link

Copy the join link from the interview row and send it to the candidate ahead of the interview, along with the meeting link. The join page walks them through downloading the agent and pasting their interview code. There is no account to create and nothing to install.

Tell them in advance. Candidates react far better when the monitoring is mentioned in the invitation rather than discovered at the join page. What the candidate does is written so you can paste it into your own email.

6. Watch the session

Once the candidate connects, the interview row goes Live. Open it to see the session view: a running count of flagged signals, the active signal list, and a live event feed. A one-line status strip tells you in plain language whether anything needs attention right now.

You do not have to watch. Everything is recorded into the report either way. See live monitoring.

7. Read the report

When the session ends the interview moves to Completed and the integrity score is calculated. Open the row to get the report: a score out of 100, a risk band, the findings in plain language, and the evidence behind each one.

You can download the signed summary or detailed JSON, and anyone can re-upload a downloaded file through Verify report to confirm it was not altered. See integrity reports.


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