Most AI interview platforms record, upload, and store your candidates' video. HireCredible doesn't. Zero videos stored — not as a policy, as an architecture. Here's what that means and how it's possible.
The conventional approach to video interviewing follows a simple pattern. The candidate records their responses. The video is uploaded to the vendor's cloud. The hiring team reviews the recording later. The video sits on a server — sometimes indefinitely, often in another country — until someone remembers to delete it.
This model was inherited from video conferencing tools, which store recordings for convenient replay. But replay convenience is the wrong design goal for a structured screening interview. What the employer needs isn't the ability to re-watch the video — it's the scored output. The video is a means to an end.
If you can extract the scored output without storing the video, you've eliminated the most sensitive data asset in the process.
Modern browsers expose powerful APIs for media access and processing. The WebRTC API handles real-time communication. The Web Speech API handles voice processing. These tools allow sophisticated audio and video analysis to happen entirely within the browser — without any data leaving the device.
HireCredible's platform is built on this foundation. When a candidate starts their interview, the browser requests access to their microphone and camera. That access is granted — or denied — by the candidate. The browser then processes the audio stream locally, generating a real-time transcript. The video stream is used for integrity signal analysis (gaze patterns, tab switching, environment) and immediately discarded.
For your candidates: their video is never uploaded, stored, or accessible to anyone after the interview. For your compliance team: the most sensitive data category in the process doesn't exist as a stored asset. For your security posture: there's no video data to protect, breach, or mishandle.
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HireCredible scores candidates on the content of their answers: relevance, structure, depth, and evidence of the competencies you defined. These are properties of what the candidate said — captured in the text transcript. Video is not an input to the score.
HireCredible does not score candidates on facial expression, eye contact, or physical presentation. Not storing video isn't a trade-off. It's a reflection of how the scoring model works: transcript in, scores out. The video was never needed.
Integrity signals — gaze patterns, tab switching, response timing, answer coherence — are analysed in real time during the session. The analysis produces a flag if a signal crosses a threshold. The flag is stored. The video that produced the flag is not.
You see the result (e.g., "multiple tab switches detected during Question 3") without needing to review a video clip. If you want to investigate further, you have the text transcript and the score context. The integrity signals give you the information you need to make a decision, without creating a long-term video archive to manage.
What does zero-storage mean in an AI interview context?
Zero-storage means no video recordings are ever saved to any server. The video stream is processed in real time within the candidate's browser, and the raw media is discarded immediately after analysis. Only the text transcript and scores are retained.
How is the interview conducted without storing video?
HireCredible uses native browser APIs to access the candidate's microphone and camera. Audio and video are processed locally on the candidate's device. The analysis output — transcript and scores — is sent to HireCredible's servers. The raw media never leaves the device.
Is zero-storage as reliable as traditional video storage?
Yes. The scoring and transcript are generated in real time during the session. Nothing depends on the stored video — the evaluation is complete by the time the interview ends.
What happens if the candidate's connection drops mid-interview?
If the connection is interrupted, the candidate can rejoin via the same link (if their session is still active) or be re-invited. No partial recording is left stored on a server.
Does zero-storage affect the quality of the interview or scoring?
No. Scoring is based on the content of the candidate's answers — not on video analysis. The text transcript is the primary input for scoring. Video storage was never required for the scoring to work.
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