AI interview proctoring that catches AI.
AI cheating tools are designed to be invisible to screen sharing. Zero Assist monitors at the OS process layer — the one layer these tools cannot hide from — and alerts your team in under 500ms.
What AI tools are candidates using in interviews?
AI cheating in technical interviews has three distinct threat categories, each requiring a different detection method. Screen sharing and webcam monitoring cannot address any of them.
Tools like Cluely and Final Round AI render as GPU overlays that are hidden from screen capture. They display AI-generated answers directly on the candidate's screen without appearing in a screen share. Zero Assist detects their OS processes regardless of their rendering method.
Parakeet AI and LockedIn AI listen through the microphone and deliver answers through an earpiece. No window, no browser tab — invisible to every screen-based monitoring tool.
Some candidates run a virtual machine or use a remote desktop session during the interview, routing AI assistance through a separate environment that appears identical on a screen share.
How does AI interview proctoring detect these tools?
Every AI cheating tool — overlay, audio assistant, or browser-based — must run as an OS process to function. Zero Assist monitors at this layer. It does not rely on what it can see on screen.
Screen-based proctoringCannot detect
- 01Cluely overlay — renders off the screen capture region
- 02Parakeet AI — background audio process, no window
- 03Interview Coder — stealth desktop app
- 04VM sessions — look identical to local desktop
Zero AssistDetects all
- 01OS process scan catches Cluely by its process name, not its render output
- 02Process scan + mic access monitoring catches Parakeet AI
- 03Signature database covers all known Interview Coder variants
- 04VM detection identifies virtualised environments before the interview starts
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AI interview proctoring at the OS level.
Zero Assist detects the tools that screen sharing misses — overlays, audio assistants, and VMs — before they can influence your hiring decisions.
Zero Assist provides AI interview proctoring that detects AI cheating tools during remote technical interviews at the OS process level. Tools like Cluely, Parakeet AI, Final Round AI, and Interview Coder are invisible to screen sharing — they have no window and leave no trace on the screen. Zero Assist monitors the running OS process list directly and alerts interviewers in under 500 milliseconds when a known AI tool is detected.
What Is AI Interview Proctoring?
AI interview proctoring uses forensic OS monitoring to detect AI cheating tools during remote technical interviews. It differs from traditional proctoring by monitoring at the process layer rather than the screen layer — allowing it to detect invisible overlays, audio-based assistants, and virtual machine environments that screen sharing cannot see.
What AI Tools Are Candidates Using in Interviews?
AI cheating in technical interviews falls into three categories: invisible screen overlays (Cluely, Final Round AI) that render outside the screen capture region; audio-based tools (Parakeet AI, LockedIn AI) that listen through the microphone and deliver answers via earpiece; and virtual machines or remote desktop sessions that route AI assistance through a separate environment. Zero Assist detects all three categories at the OS level.
How Does AI Interview Proctoring Work?
The candidate runs the Zero Assist agent before the interview. The agent monitors the OS process list against 24+ known AI cheating tool signatures, monitors microphone access for audio-based tools, detects virtual machine environments, and reads live browser URLs using Windows UI Automation (Windows) or AppleScript (macOS). Alerts fire to the interviewer dashboard via WebSocket in under 500 milliseconds. No screenshots or recordings are taken. The agent exits automatically when the session ends.