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An AI interview platform is software that helps teams design, conduct, and analyze structured interviews with AI. It can ask questions, adapt follow-ups, transcribe answers, score responses, and summarize the evidence so people can review interviews faster and more consistently.
Interviewing is one of the most valuable parts of hiring, research, and coaching. It is also one of the hardest workflows to scale. Human interviews require scheduling, note-taking, consistent questions, consistent scoring, and time for review. When volume increases, teams either slow down or make decisions from less evidence.
AI interview platforms solve that by turning interviews into a repeatable system. The team defines the objective, questions, tone, channel, and scoring criteria. Participants receive a link. The AI conducts the conversation through chat, voice, or video. When the session ends, reviewers get a transcript, summary, scores, and key insights.
How AI Interview Platforms Work
- Design the interview. Start from a role, research objective, or practice goal. Define what good answers should show.
- Invite participants. Share a public link, create candidate-specific links, or trigger interviews from another system.
- Run the conversation. The AI asks the planned questions and follows up when an answer needs examples, clarification, or more depth.
- Review structured output. The platform produces transcripts, summaries, scores, highlights, and exports.
What Makes the Category Different
A basic video interview tool records candidate answers. An AI interview platform is more active. It guides the interview, adapts in the moment, and turns the conversation into structured evidence. That makes it useful for high-volume hiring, technical assessments, user research, customer discovery, and interview practice.
Where Aural Fits
Aural is built around AI-led interviews across chat, voice, and video. It also supports coding questions, whiteboard tasks, anti-cheating signals, automated reports, exports, open-source deployment options, and a REST API for automation.
For the product documentation version of this topic, see What Is an AI Interview Platform?.