The invisible AI interview assistant: you see it, they don’t
InterviewPilot is an invisible interview assistant for Windows: its answer overlay is drawn on your monitor but left out of every screen share and recording by Windows itself.
What “invisible” means here
There are two screens in every video interview: the one in front of you, and the copy of it that your meeting app sends to the interviewer. An invisible display lives only on the first. InterviewPilot asks Windows — through the documented SetWindowDisplayAffinity(WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE) call — to omit its overlay from every capture of your screen. The overlay isn’t blacked out or blurred in the share; it simply isn’t there, and whatever is underneath shows through.
Because the operating system does the hiding, it doesn’t depend on which meeting app you use or how that app captures the screen. The full mechanism is in how Windows screen capture exclusion works.
What you see vs. what they see
| Situation | You see | The interviewer sees |
|---|---|---|
| You share your entire screen | The overlay, floating above your windows | Your desktop — no overlay |
| You share one window or browser tab | The overlay above that window | Only the shared window |
| The meeting is recorded | The overlay, as normal | A recording without the overlay |
| You Alt-Tab between apps | Your usual app list | No InterviewPilot entry to spot |
| Your taskbar is visible on the share | Your normal taskbar | No InterviewPilot button |
Invisible on every meeting app
The overlay stays out of screen shares and recordings in Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack huddles, Discord, OBS Studio recordings — and in any other app that captures through Windows’ standard capture APIs. Platform-by-platform detail is in do Zoom, Teams and Google Meet detect screen overlays?
Test it yourself in two minutes
- Open InterviewPilot and start a session so the overlay is on screen.
- Start a meeting on your own in Zoom, Google Meet or Teams.
- Share your entire screen and look at the share preview (or a second device joined to the call).
- The overlay is on your monitor and missing from the share. OBS Studio’s Display Capture shows the same.
Where invisibility stops
Being straightforward about the limits is what makes the rest of this page believable:
- The overlay is still visible on your own physical monitor.
- It does not hide the running process from Windows Task Manager.
- It has no effect on a camera physically pointed at your screen.
- Windows is the only released platform. A macOS build is in beta (waitlist on the download page); there is no Linux version.
Screen-share exclusion is one layer; stealth mode adds taskbar and Alt-Tab hiding, a click-through overlay and more. For what proctoring software can and can’t observe, see undetectable interview assistant. Requires Windows 10 (2004+) and Windows 11.
Further reading
Frequently asked questions
Explore InterviewPilot
- AI Interview AssistantWhat an AI interview assistant does during a live interview, and how InterviewPilot works end to end.
- Stealth ModeEvery layer of the stealth mode — capture exclusion, taskbar and Alt-Tab hiding, click-through overlay, hotkeys.
- Undetectable Interview AssistantWhat screen-capture exclusion hides, what it does not, and how to verify it yourself.
- AI Interview CopilotReal-time copilot for live rounds — transcription, screen reading and resume-grounded answers.
- Coding Interview AssistantDSA, HackerRank and LeetCode rounds — problem read off the screen, explained code and complexity.
- Interview HelperLive support for technical and behavioral interview pressure.
- Free AI Interview AssistantThe free tier: 3 sessions a day, 10 minutes each, no card required.
Bring backup into your next round.
Install InterviewPilot, upload your resume, and walk in with structured answers a keystroke away — visible to you and nobody else.