Stay in the conversation
Control keeps relevant context close so you can listen, respond, and work without rebuilding the prompt in another tab.
Built for the moment when the question is already happening.
Control is a desktop AI interview assistant for live interviews, online assessments, and screen-share workflows. It turns the conversation and the context you choose to capture into help you can use without leaving your workflow.
Interview tools should reduce friction, not create another workflow.
Live interviews combine a conversation, a video call, a shared screen, and often a browser-based editor. Generic chat tools make you move information between all of them while the interviewer is still talking.
Control was designed around that constraint. It can maintain conversational context, work from selected screenshots, and remain accessible through global controls, giving you one continuous workspace instead of a pile of disconnected prompts.
Product principles
Use the desktop deliberately
A native app can listen, capture selected context, respond to global hotkeys, and stay available across the tools in an interview workflow.
Make privacy understandable
Control explains which permissions support each feature and gives users direct control over when audio, screenshots, and prompts are submitted.
How we test what stays hidden.
Last confirmed October 2026. Every invisibility claim on this site carries this date and this scope.
“Undetectable” is only a useful word if it says undetectable by what. So instead of one blanket promise, Control publishes the capture paths it has been checked against, the version numbers that check was done on, and the cases it does not cover. When a video client ships a new build, the claim is not true until it has been re-run.
Confirmed absent from
- Current Zoom desktop releases: the overlay is absent from a shared screen and from cloud and local recordings.
- The HackerRank desktop app: the overlay stays out of its screenshots and screen recording, and Control does not trip its focus or tab-switch checks.
- Browser-based screen sharing and recording (the capture path used by Google Meet, Microsoft Teams in the browser, and browser assessment platforms).
- macOS Activity Monitor: no Control process is listed while the app is running.
- Browser keyboard events: global hotkeys are consumed by the desktop app and never reach the page as input.
Not covered
- Other proctoring software that installs its own capture driver or a locked-down browser (for example a secure-browser mode that blocks other applications), until it is tested.
- Cameras. Control does nothing about a webcam, and camera-based proctoring is unaffected by it.
The method is the obvious one: a second machine joins the call or opens the assessment, the shared screen and the recording are inspected with Control running and answering, and the process list is checked while it runs. The free trial runs the same build, so you can repeat the check in your own setup before an interview.
How the Journal is written.
The Control Journal answers one kind of question: what a given interview or assessment platform records, detects, and allows. Those answers are drawn from the platform's own documentation, help centre, and terms, cited inline, and every post opens with the date the answer was checked. Vendors change their proctoring rules without notice, so the date is part of the answer.
Posts are published under the Control byline rather than an individual's name. That is a deliberate policy: each article is reviewed against the vendor's current documentation before it goes out, and the company, not one writer, stands behind it. Corrections go to [email protected] and are applied to the article with an updated date.
Comparison pages check each competitor's public pricing page on a stated date and link to it. Third-party figures such as review scores or reported latency are attributed as reports, never restated as our own measurements. No vendor pays for placement, and no comparison is edited at a vendor's request.
The company.
Control AI is an independent software company. It sells one product, the Control desktop app, on the plans listed on the pricing page, and is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware under its terms of service. There is no sales team and no enterprise tier; the same app and the same prices apply to everyone.
Support, technical, and privacy requests all reach a person at [email protected], normally within one business day. The contact page lists what to include for each kind of request, and the developer hub documents the public read-only API and MCP server.
See how Control fits your workflow.
Download the desktop app and use the included free messages and voice minutes before choosing a plan.