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Interview Lab

Practice the interview résumés can’t fake.

Do a take-home with any AI you like, paste the chats behind the work, and defend it in a scored debrief. That’s the format sharp teams already run. Practice it here before it counts.

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Do a take-home with any AI, share your traces, and defend the work.

What you get

What you walk away with.

Not a list of questions. The take-home, the traces, and a debrief that quotes your own work.

  1. 01

    A real take-home

    Pick a challenge. Use ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor — anything. Using AI is the point, not a loophole.

  2. 02

    Your traces, scored

    Paste the chats behind the deliverable. The read is how you directed, checked, and overrode the model — not whether the artifact looks polished.

  3. 03

    A grounded report

    Five scores, one overall, and quotes from your own traces. If a quote can’t be matched, it isn’t shown.

Some challenges plant one small inconsistency on purpose. Whether you catch it is part of the read, not a gotcha.

Plain-language definition

What does an AI trace mean?

An AI trace is the saved conversation from a tool such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Cursor. It includes the prompts, the AI responses, and the follow-up instructions used to create the deliverable.

Together, these exchanges show how you directed, checked, and improved the work.

Direction

“Compare these three launch options against the brief.”

Verification

“That claim conflicts with the source. Check it again.”

Iteration

“Keep the structure, but revise the recommendation.”

How to export traces from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Cursor

The path

You don’t start here. You land here.

Assess, explore, prove, apply — then the interview. Interview Lab is the step after the application: prove you can work with AI, not just talk about it.

See the whole path →
  1. 01AssessSee where you stand and the smartest next move.Career Assessment
  2. 02ExploreFind the roles worth your time before you spend a week on one.AI Career Coach · Job Scanner
  3. 03ProveBuild real work a hiring team can open without a login.AI Deployment Fellowship · Build-with-AI Workshops
  4. 04ApplySend a resume and letter made for that one job.Apply with AI
  5. 05InterviewWalk in ready — and show how you actually work with AI.You are here

Interview Coach shares this step and covers the live Q&A. Different format, same job: walk in ready.

How it works

Three steps. About a minute each.

  1. 01

    Do the take-home

    Pick a challenge. Build the deliverable with any AI you like. About an hour if the model carries the heavy lifting.

  2. 02

    Share all your traces

    Paste the conversations behind the work. Incomplete traces get sent back before anything is scored.

  3. 03

    Defend it

    A bounded debrief asks about specific moments in your traces. Then you get a scored report, with the evidence quoted.

Free, with a daily practice limit. Sessions, traces, and reports stay private to you.

Sample output

What it looks like.

Here's what a finished report looks like — scored, quoted, and aimed at a hiring panel.

Sample only. Your report is built from your real traces and debrief answers.

AI-fluency report

Launch a product nobody has heard of

Marketing · ~75 min

78/100

Fluent

82

Direction

71

Verification

74

Iteration

80

Judgment

84

Ownership

From the traces

“The fact sheet says $39/month unlimited. The contractor FAQ says ten swaps then $2 each. These can't both be true — flag it before any ad copy ships.”

If a hiring panel asked

They catch contradictions before they become campaign copy. They still let the model draft too much of the first pass. Hire them for judgment; watch the first draft.

Free vs paid

Practice it yourself, or run it on candidates.

Candidate practice is free and private. The employer-run flow is a pilot — same format, consent-first sharing.

Start a challenge freeFor hiring teams

Who it’s for

You — free

Candidates practicing the format

Hiring teams

Teams hiring for AI fluency

What you get

You — free

Take-home, traces, debrief, scored report

Hiring teams

The same pipeline, run on your brief

Cost

You — free

Free with an account, daily practice limit

Hiring teams

Pilot — talk to us

Who sees the traces

You — free

Only you

Hiring teams

You, with the candidate’s consent

FAQ

Questions.

Why this format exists.

Essay

The interview résumés can’t fake.

AI writes the applications. Traces show how you actually worked. We built Interview Lab because hiring is already moving to take-home, share-your-chats, defend-the-work — and you should practice that before it counts.

Read the essay →

Next step

Where to go from here.

A tailored application gets you in the room. These tools cover the steps before you sit the take-home.

All tools →

The traces are the interview. Practice them first.

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