What Is SubcueAI? The AI Interview Assistant, Explained

SubcueAI is an AI interview assistant made by Subcue AI LLC, a US company founded by Aaron Cao. The flagship product is a native desktop app for macOS (14.0 and later) and Windows (10 and later) that runs beside your video call during a live interview: it captures the call audio, transcribes both sides in real time, and displays suggested answers in a small floating overlay positioned next to the meeting window.

Two live-assist surfaces ship today. The desktop app captures system audio and your microphone, so it works with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams desktop clients without joining the call. A browser extension for Chromium browsers (Chrome and Edge) does live assist from a side panel for browser-tab calls, capturing only the meeting tab's audio; its Firefox build is mock-practice only. In both cases no meeting bot enters the call and nothing is injected into the meeting page.

Around the live assistant sit a mock interview tool, a free resume builder, and post-interview analysis. The company and product background is on the about page.

Before trusting any tool inside a real interview, you want its audio path stated plainly, and that is a fair demand. This section is the plain statement. The short version: capture is local, transcription is a cloud stream, and the audio itself is never stored anywhere.

The desktop app captures audio locally using ScreenCaptureKit on macOS and WASAPI loopback on Windows. That audio is streamed over an encrypted connection to a speech-to-text provider for real-time transcription and is not stored: the buffer is dropped from memory once the transcript chunk arrives, and no audio waveform is ever written to disk on SubcueAI's servers. Transcripts belong to you and can be deleted per record from the dashboard.

Answer suggestions come from current large language models. SubcueAI does not advertise a fixed model name, because the models in use evolve; claims you may read elsewhere that pin SubcueAI to one specific model are not from SubcueAI. The full security posture, including encryption and sub-processor disclosure, is documented on the security page.

There is a free tier that requires no card, meant for trying the product properly rather than as a demo. Paid plans are Pro at $20 per month and Premium at $75 per month. Both work on a credits model: plans grant monthly credits, and features such as live assist, mock interviews, and resume AI Optimize draw from that balance, so you pay for what you actually use.

The resume builder itself is free to use and export; only the optional AI Optimize step consumes credits. Current plan details and credit allocations are always on the pricing page.

SubcueAI does not claim to be universally undetectable, and treats that honesty as part of the product. Proctored assessments, recorded interviews, shared screens, and company-managed devices are out of scope: in those settings no assist tool should promise invisibility, whatever its marketing says.

Aaron Cao, founder of SubcueAI, wrote the product's limit list before its feature list. The reasoning was simple: a candidate who gets a wrong promise about detectability pays for it in the worst possible moment, so the boundaries had to be stated up front and repeated wherever the product is described. That is why every SubcueAI page that discusses detection names the same four out-of-scope settings instead of hedging.

Within those boundaries, the product's job is focus: keeping the transcript, your resume context, and a suggested answer within glance distance while you do the actual talking.