Xobin Launches Controlled AI Interviews

Controlled AI Interviews are live.

Decide exactly what the interview asks, the skills, the questions, the language, then have an AI interviewer conduct it with every candidate you invite, on camera, or over voice.

AI interviews are already changing what hiring can look like. An AI interviewer that talks to a candidate, listens to their answers, and evaluates their responses can already take the scheduling and coordination burden out of the process.

Now, Xobin is pushing that idea into a new paradigm: combining the control of an assessment with the behaviour of an actual interview. Instead of a form with a timer, candidates experience an interviewer on camera or through voice that asks questions, listens to the answers, and evaluates the interaction. The structure and consistency of an assessment, with the flow of an interview.

The thing recruiters kept telling us they wanted next was not more autonomy. It was control. The skills being assessed are not up for negotiation. The questions were argued over with the hiring manager and signed off. The wording carries nuance that took three passes to get right, and the language the interview is conducted in is a decision, not a detail. An interview is only worth running if it is that interview.

So we built a way to spin up an AI interview agent that runs precisely what you specify, in the mode and the language you specify, and to have it live in minutes rather than a planning cycle. That is a Controlled AI Interview: your interview, conducted by an AI interviewer, at any volume you need.

Assessing domain depth and behavioural nuance

The useful part of a controlled AI interview is that domain depth and behavioural nuance stop being two separate exercises. A coding question and a spoken judgement question can sit in the same interview. A precise technical check and an open conversation about how someone works can be scored against the same criteria. One interview, technical and behavioural at once, at whatever depth the role deserves.

It arrives as an interviewer, not a form

This is the part worth seeing. What you write does not reach the candidate as a questionnaire. It reaches them as an interview.

Avatar modeAudio modeText mode

04:12Live

Interviewer

Question 3 of 8

Walk me through a release you owned end to end. What did you decide to cut, and how did you explain that call to the people who wanted it kept?

ElenaStart answeringSubmit answer

04:12Live

Interviewer

Question 3 of 8

Walk me through a release you owned end to end. What did you cut, and why?

ElenaSubmit answer

In avatar mode, an interviewer appears on camera, asks each question out loud, and listens. For the candidate it is conversational, which is exactly the setting you want when communication, composure or the ability to think out loud is part of what you are hiring for. It reaches into territory that used to need a live round on someone's calendar.

Audio mode is voice only: the questions are spoken, with no interviewer video. This is the telephonic screening call without anyone having to place it, the format candidates already know, none of the scheduling, and the same call every time.

Text mode puts each question on screen to be read at the candidate's own pace, with answers still recorded to camera. It is the most traditional of the three, and it suits questions a candidate should sit with for a moment before they start talking.

Same interview in all three. What changes is the form factor you send it out in.

Decide what gets asked, Go live in minutes

You set the skills it targets, and which of them are must-haves. You set the questions, pulled from Xobin's question library, from your own, or written in your words, and the order they come in. You set the evaluation criteria each answer is scored against. You set the language it is conducted in, and in English, the accent the interviewer speaks with.

Control doesn't have to mean slow authoring. The whole thing is five screens.

1Job2Skills3Questions4Avatar5Review

Which job are you hiring for?

Type the role and Xobin recommends the skills to assess.

Senior Product Manager

Have a job description? Paste it instead.

Nothing is decided in the moment. No judgement about what matters for this role gets made on your behalf.

Questions, not just conversation

An interview is rarely only spoken answers, so a controlled AI interview is not either. Five kinds of question, mixed in any order across your skills.

SubjectiveMultiple choiceMultiple answerWeighted choiceCoding

04:12Live

Interviewer

Question 4 of 8

A stakeholder wants a feature you believe will hurt retention. Describe how you would handle that conversation, and what evidence you would bring to it.

MarcoStart answeringSubmit answer

04:12Live

Interviewer

Question 4 of 8

A stakeholder wants a feature you believe will hurt retention. How would you handle that conversation?

MarcoSubmit answer

• Subjective. Answered aloud in the candidate's own words, scored against the criteria you wrote.
• Multiple choice. One correct answer.
• Multiple answer. Several correct answers, marked as a set.
• Weighted choice. One pick, with the options carrying different weight, for psychometric questions where there is a best answer and a defensible second.
• Coding. A full editor with starter code in whichever variety of programming languages you allow.

Candidates can take it in their preferred browser on the device they choose, whether it's a laptop, tablet, or phone.

04:12Live

Question 6 of 8

Which of these belong in a rollback plan?

A tested path backBA longer QA cycleA reachable named ownerThe trigger signal

Select all that applySubmit answer

Interviewer

Marco

04:12Live

Question 8 of 8

Problem

def invoice_total(items):
  # round per item
  total = 0
  for amount, rate in items:
    total += round(amount * (1 + rate), 2)
  return round(total, 2)

PythonSubmit answer

Interviewer

Elena

04:12Live

Interviewer

Question 3 of 8

Walk me through a release you owned end to end. What did you cut, and why?

ElenaSubmit answer

Proctoring, only where it is warranted

Xobin's proctoring runs with a controlled AI interview exactly as it runs everywhere else, on whatever device the candidate happens to have. Switch on what the role warrants and leave the rest off.

Proctoring settings

Configure proctoring for the interview.

Webcam presence

Flags no presence and multiple presences in frame.

Gaze tracking

Logs sustained attention away from the screen.

Off-tab activity

Counts switches away from the interview window.

Ambient audio

Notes another voice prompting the candidate.

Identity check

Photo ID captured before the first question.

Paste detection

Marks large pastes into a coding answer.

The report, minutes later

Elena Ruiz

Submitted 24 Aug 2026 · 19 min · Senior Product Manager screen

Recommended

7.4

Overall / 10

Executive summary

Strong on discovery and on holding a position with evidence. The rollback answer was specific about the signal that would trigger it, not just the plan. Prioritisation answers described process more than outcome, and no answer put a number to a trade-off. Worth a live round focused on commercial judgement.

Skill performance

01

Product Discovery

Must have8.5/10

02

Stakeholder Communication

Must have8.0/10

Question 4 of 8

A stakeholder wants a feature you believe will hurt retention. Describe how you would handle that conversation, and what evidence you would bring to it.

8/10

"I'd start by agreeing on what we're both optimising for, because usually we aren't arguing about the feature, we're arguing about the metric. Then I'd bring the cohort data, the last two releases where we added surface area, and what happened to week four retention..."

Evaluation reasoning

Reached both required concepts: aligning on the shared metric before debating the feature, and bringing prior release evidence rather than opinion. Did not name a decision owner or a timebox for the disagreement, which the criteria asked for.

03

Prioritisation

Must have6.0/10

04

Pricing Sense

Nice to have5.5/10

Pacing

148wpm

Inside the 130 to 160 target band.

Filler words

92/100

Clean delivery, 6 occurrences.

Proctoring

Gaze away · 04:12

Integrity 9 / 10

Off-tab activity

2

Multiple presences

0

No presence

0s

Gaze away

8s

A recommendation, Recommended or Not Recommended against a cutoff you set yourself, an overall score out of ten, a written summary, and the evidence behind both: every skill with its score, and every question with the recorded answer, the transcript, the score and the reasoning for it, translated into English where the interview was conducted in another language.

Alongside that, a read on delivery, an integrity score, and any flagged moment attached to the frame it came from. In scenarios where your top recruiters have a nuanced judgment that differs from the candidate's score on a particular question, they can re-score it while reviewing the report, with the score override logged instantly.

We are MCP-First! Spin Up Interviews from Claude.

Controlled AI Interviews are available through the Xobin MCP Server, so a connected assistant can do all of this in conversation.

Set up a controlled AI interview for the Senior Product Manager role, audio, English, focused on prioritisation and stakeholder work. Then get me a link for Elena.

xobin.create_controlled_interview

Drafting the plan: six skills with prioritisation and stakeholder communication as must-haves, eight questions mixing spoken answers with two judgement questions.

• SP
  Senior Product Manager screenAudio · English

  • —6 skills, 8 questions, two weighted judgement questions.
  • —Invite sent to Elena Ruiz.

  Evidence: https://acme.xob.in/i/pm-screen/8f2c41

Ready. Audio takes about a minute to come up, and the link works now.

Open the interviewInvite another candidateCheck her score later

Illustrative. Works with any client that supports remote MCP connections.

Describe the role and the assistant recommends the skills and drafts every question for your review. Xobin validates the plan against its own rules before creating anything, helping you build a complete interview with all the details you need, incredibly fast. The candidate link is returned in the same reply.

As results arrive, ask across the pool in plain language: who is recommended, how they scored on the skills you actually care about, who is worth a live round. The assistant fetches the evidence. You make the call. If you have not worked that way before, five things to try first with Xobin MCP is the quickest way in.

Where it fits

The useful part of a controlled AI interview is that domain depth and behavioural nuance stop being two separate exercises.

In engineering, domain specificity is most of the job. A coding question and a weighted judgement question tell you different things about the same person, and both sit in the same interview as the conversation about how they work with everyone else. In sales and customer success, how something is said carries as much as what is said, which is what the spoken modes are for. In operations, finance and analytics, precise questions and open ones can be mixed until the interview matches the actual work. For team leads and managers the questions are about judgement, and weighted choices score the distance between a good answer and a merely defensible one.

One interview, technical and behavioural at once, at whatever depth the role deserves.

Controlled AI Interviews are available to every Xobin customer today.