Interview and meeting AI glossary

Interview copilot

Software that listens to a live interview and gives the candidate a real-time, spoken-ready answer to each question as it is asked. Poisely is an interview copilot that shows and speaks the answer in your own voice, in under a couple of seconds.

AI interview assistant

A broader term for any tool that uses AI to help before or during interviews, from mock-interview practice to real-time answers in the live round. Poisely does both.

Real-time interview answers

Answers generated within a second or two of the interviewer finishing a question, fast enough to read or hear and then say naturally while you are still speaking.

STAR method

A structure for behavioral answers, Situation, Task, Action, Result, that keeps a story concrete and outcome-focused. Poisely's behavioral mode shapes answers in clean STAR form automatically.

Behavioral interview

A round that asks about past experience, such as tell me about a time you disagreed with a manager. These are best answered with a specific story in STAR shape rather than generalities.

System design interview

A round where you design a large system out loud, discussing components, data flow, scaling and trade-offs. Common for mid and senior engineering roles.

Live coding interview

A round where you solve a programming problem in real time while the interviewer watches, often on a shared editor. Poisely's coding-vision reads the problem off your screen and returns a clean solution on Max.

Take-home assessment

A coding or case task completed on your own time and submitted before the next round. Poisely can pull answers from your own uploaded brief for company-specific tasks.

Capture-invisible (screen-share-proof)

A desktop app whose window is excluded from screen capture at the operating-system level, so it stays off any screen share, including a full-screen share, and against screenshots, even while visible on your own screen. This is how Poisely stays hidden.

Mock interview

A practice interview where an AI or a person asks realistic questions and gives feedback, without real stakes. Poisely includes free spoken mock interviews with a scored report on any topic or your exact job description.

AI meeting assistant

A tool that transcribes a meeting and produces a summary and action items automatically. Many do this by sending a bot into the call; Poisely does not.

No-bot meeting capture

Recording and transcribing a call by listening to your own computer's audio, so nothing joins the call as a participant and nothing appears in the attendee list. This is how Poisely captures meetings, and why it works even where notetaker bots are blocked.

Meeting transcript

A written record of everything said in a call, ideally labelled by speaker so you can follow who said what.

Action items

The concrete next steps and owners a meeting produced, extracted from the conversation so nothing is missed. Poisely lists these the moment a call ends.

Speaker diarization

Splitting a transcript by who spoke, so each turn is attributed to the right person. Poisely labels speakers in the live transcript.

Retrieval-augmented answers (RAG)

Answers grounded in your own uploaded documents, such as a resume, case study or job description, rather than generic knowledge. This is how Poisely answers company-specific and take-home questions accurately.