Behavioral interview AI assistant, invisible on screen

1. Open Cue before the call starts

Launch Cue and join your video interview or phone call as normal. The overlay sits above every window on your Mac without appearing in screen shares, recordings, or the interviewer's view. See the supported platforms page for the conferencing tools we have verified.

2. Cue transcribes both sides as you speak

The interviewer's questions appear in the transcript in real time, speaker-labeled, alongside your answers. You can see the full exchange without switching windows or breaking eye contact with the camera.

3. Press the shortcut when a question lands hard

When the question comes in and the answer isn't there, press the keyboard shortcut. Cue reads the full transcript context and the most recent question together, then streams a structured answer. You can start reading while it finishes, form your own words, and respond without a visible pause.

4. Feed it the role before the round starts

One keystroke captures anything on screen. Screenshot the job description, or paste the company's stated values into your system prompt. Cue grounds its answers in the specific role, not a generic script.

Cue supports a custom system prompt per scenario. For a behavioral round, the prompt shapes the AI's output before the first question lands.

Here is one you can paste in and adapt:

You are a behavioral interview coach helping me answer questions live.

## Format
- Structure every answer using STAR: Situation, Task, Action, Result.
- Keep answers to 2–3 minutes of spoken content unless I ask for more.
- Start with the situation in one or two sentences, not a long preamble.

## Grounding
- Use only the experience I have given you in this prompt.
- If I haven't given you a relevant story for the question, suggest the closest one I have and flag it.

## Tone
- Professional but not scripted. Write in first person.
- Do not start responses with "Certainly" or restate my question back at me.

Below the prompt, add a short summary of your background: two or three past roles with the key problems you solved. Cue reads this as context for every answer it suggests during the call.

Quick actions sit alongside your prompt. Set up one-click buttons for common mid-call requests: "give me a stronger result for this story", "suggest a better opening line", "what follow-up might come next".

Behavioral interviews span a lot of territory. The question types below are the ones that trip most candidates up, and Cue holds up across all of them.

Conflict and disagreement

"Tell me about a time you disagreed with a senior stakeholder." Cue hears the question, reads the experience in your prompt, and suggests a STAR answer grounded in what you've actually done, not a fabricated scenario.

Failure and resilience

"Describe a project that went wrong." The risk here isn't the story; it's the framing. Cue suggests how to close the answer on growth or learning rather than on the failure itself.

Leadership and influence

"Tell me about a time you led without authority." These reward specificity: team size, timeline, the constraint you had to work around. Cue can prompt you to add the detail the interviewer is listening for.

Motivation and values

"Why do you want to work here?" These sound easy and trip people up most. If you've added the company's stated values to your prompt, Cue grounds its response in them rather than a generic answer.

A few honest limits.

• It won't invent experience you don't have. Its answers are grounded in what you give it in your system prompt. If you haven't described a relevant situation, it says so and suggests the closest alternative.
• It won't bypass monitoring software. The overlay is excluded from macOS screen capture, but remote-desktop tools and proctoring software are outside what we can verify. Check the supported platforms page before relying on it in any monitored interview environment. The decision to use it sits with you.
• It won't work offline. Both live transcription and AI responses need an internet connection.
• It won't run on Windows or Linux. The stealth overlay uses macOS-native APIs.
• It won't send a follow-up or debrief automatically after the call. The transcript is saved locally on your Mac; use it however you want.

Nothing from your interviews is stored on our servers.

• Mid-level and senior candidates in tech, consulting, and finance where behavioral rounds carry as much weight as technical ones.
• Career changers who have the experience but are framing it in a new context for the first time.
• Non-native English speakers who know what to say and need support structuring it under pressure.

The free trial covers two hours of transcription and fifty AI messages per month, enough for several live rounds before you decide. The full behavioral interview AI assistant is macOS-only. Download Cue and use it on the next round that matters, or browse other use cases to see where else it helps.