Glossary

Terms you'll meet in the product, grouped by area. One line each.

People and roles

Candidate (B2C) — a job seeker; takes AI interviews, optimizes their resume, builds a Profile Card.
Employer / Recruiter (B2B) — a company hiring through the platform; creates job postings, runs interviews, reviews transcripts, summaries, and graded candidates.
Self-serve user — an individual using the platform on their own, primarily for practice interviews not tied to an employer posting.
Professional interviewer — a vetted human interviewer who conducts paid sessions, sets availability, and requires admin approval.
Admin — platform administrator; manages users, sessions, analytics, content, and platform configuration.

AI-bot interview — the flagship voice interview: a spoken session with the AI interviewer, with real-time transcription, evaluation, and feedback.
AI mock interview — the text-based interview format: typed Q&A with AI evaluation and scoring.
Practice vs. lifelike interview — practice sessions use a lightweight local interviewer face; lifelike (paid) sessions use the live photo-real avatar.
Blended interview — a technical interview that interleaves theoretical questions with short practical coding exercises in one session, with the code editor appearing only on coding questions.
Coding interview / code evaluation — interviews where the candidate writes code in an in-browser editor; code answers are scored alongside spoken answers.
Session room — the in-call interview UI where a live session actually runs.
Interview room — the page in the main web app that hosts a live session.

Job posting — the employer-side object a candidate interviews against; carries the role context and session configuration such as the recording policy.
JD funnel — the recruiter flow for creating a job posting from a job description.
Recording policy (OFF / OPTIONAL / MANDATORY) — per-posting setting governing session recording: not recorded; candidate-controlled with a consent notice; or automatic with a one-time acknowledgment. Self-serve practice defaults to OPTIONAL.
Profile Card — a shareable, credibility-graded summary of a candidate, with scores computed from completed interviews; generated on demand and exportable.
Feedback report — the post-interview output: per-answer evaluation, ratings, written feedback, transcript, and any recording; exportable as PDF.
ATS score — the AI resume optimizer's score of how well a resume parses and matches a role (resume-to-job match analysis).

Plan — a subscription tier (free or paid, for individuals or companies), purchased through Stripe-powered checkout.
Entitlement — what a plan allows: which features a user can access and how much usage (e.g. AI interviews, AI feedback) they can consume.
Usage / subscription metrics — the running count of consumed entitlements a user can see against their plan limits.
Credit-back — returning a consumed interview entitlement when a session fails through no fault of the user (e.g. avatar failure, abandoned session).

STT (speech-to-text) — real-time transcription of the candidate's spoken answers.
TTS (text-to-speech) — neural voice synthesis that speaks the AI interviewer's questions aloud.
Avatar — the photo-real animated interviewer face, lip-synced to the interviewer's voice.
Orb fallback — the graceful-degradation visual shown when the avatar can't render on the candidate's device; the interview continues with audio and subtitles.