Is Cluely Detectable on Microsoft Teams?

You are worried that Microsoft Teams scans your machine and reports what it finds. It does not, and this section draws the boundary precisely: a Teams call captures your microphone, your camera, and whatever screen or window you choose to share, and nothing beyond that.

Joining from the browser or from the desktop app makes no difference to that boundary. Microsoft Teams does not read your operating system's process list, does not enumerate installed applications, and has no view of a second monitor you are not sharing. That level of access belongs to proctoring software, which arrives as a separate download and asks for elevated permissions.

The consequence is short. If you never share your screen, no desktop application is visible to the interviewer, Cluely included. The wider picture of what each platform can and cannot observe sits on the detectability topic hub.

Cluely draws a floating window that sits above other windows on your desktop. Whether the interviewer ever sees it is decided by one choice you make at the start of the call: what you put into the share picker.

• Entire screen. Everything drawn on that display enters the stream, overlay included.
• Window. Only the chosen application is captured, so other desktop windows stay out of the shared view.
• Second monitor. Sharing display one while the overlay sits on display two removes the visual risk, at the cost of needing two screens and deliberate placement before you join.

A data engineer interviewing for a platform role joins from a single laptop with no external monitor. Halfway through, the interviewer asks to see a schema sketch, so the candidate shares the entire screen rather than hunting for the right window, and every floating window in that region travels with it. The share picker decided the outcome, not the tool.

Display and audio arrangement is worth settling before the call rather than during it; the tutorial walks through both.

Yes, and this is the part worth checking before you plan anything else. A standard Microsoft Teams call includes no proctoring. Some employers pair Teams with a separate assessment platform, a monitoring extension, or a supervised testing tool that installs alongside the call and holds permissions Teams never asks for.

Read the invitation. If it names a proctoring vendor, asks you to install software, or requires a locked-down browser, treat the session as monitored and do not run an assistant of any kind. That is an honest limit rather than a configuration problem, and it applies to Cluely, to SubcueAI, and to every tool in the category.

Company-managed laptops deserve the same caution. Device management policies can inventory installed applications independently of the meeting platform, so the question stops being what Teams sees and becomes what your employer's management agent already logs.

SubcueAI ships two live-assist surfaces, and the choice between them changes what is exposed. The desktop app for macOS and Windows captures system audio and microphone audio through the operating system and shows suggestions in a floating local overlay, so it behaves like the window described above and can be moved to a display you are not sharing. The browser extension Side Panel does live assist on Chromium browsers by capturing the meeting tab's audio only, which means it never transcribes your own microphone.

Neither surface joins the call as a participant, and neither injects a content script into the Microsoft Teams page, so nothing appears in the participant list and nothing is added to the meeting itself. Those are the accurate differentiators. Being invisible during a full-screen share is not one of them, for any tool. A feature-level comparison sits on the Cluely alternative page.

Test the arrangement before it matters: a mock interview run with the same monitor and share settings you plan to use shows you exactly what lands in a shared region.