For candidates
You do this once. Then it works everywhere.
Someone asked you to verify through VAHI. Here is exactly what that involves, what we keep, and what we are structurally unable to do to you.
What you actually do
Ninety seconds, once. Then about ten.
- First time ~90 seconds Confirm your identity on your phone and follow a few short on-screen prompts.
- Each round ~10 seconds Open a link, brief camera check, done. Then your interview starts.
- Next employer 0 seconds Already verified. You do not start over for every company.
- Offer stage Nothing extra No additional step between offer and joining.
- Day one ~60 seconds One last check on your first morning, then you are set up.
No app to install for standard hiring. Works on an ordinary phone — we build for low-end devices and patchy connections, because that is the real world.
Why bother
The point is that it travels with you.
Background checks today are something done to you, repeatedly, by every company, with no benefit that carries forward. You submit the same documents again and again and get nothing back.
This is meant to work the other way. You verify once and that verification is yours — reusable at the next employer, and the one after. Honest candidates are the ones who lose most when proxy interviewing is common, because every employer's response is to add friction for everybody. A credential that travels is how that stops.
Your protections
What we cannot do to you.
Straight answers
Questions people actually ask.
Are you recording my interview?
No. Standard verification does not record your interview at all — it sends check results, not video.
For higher-risk roles where continuous checks apply, video segments are kept only where something was flagged for human review, and deleted after 90 days by default. The interview itself is not archived as a matter of course.
What do you actually store about my face?
A template — a set of numbers derived from your face. It cannot be turned back into a photograph of you.
One reference image from enrollment is kept in encrypted form, so that if we update our models we can regenerate your template rather than making you enroll again. It is never readable in storage.
Is this proctoring? Are you watching my screen?
No. We do not lock down your machine, monitor your keystrokes, or read your screen. There is no software agent installed on your computer, and we deliberately decided not to build one.
Proctoring tools belong in examinations. Applying them to job interviews treats candidates as suspects, and it is a design direction we rejected.
Why does it want my phone as well as my laptop?
For higher-assurance rounds. Your laptop is where the interview happens — coding, whiteboarding, screen sharing. A phone can confirm identity more reliably than a laptop browser can.
It is the same pattern as approving a bank transaction on your phone while shopping on a laptop. Most standard hiring does not need it.
What if my check fails and I did nothing wrong?
You retry. Most failures are lighting, camera quality, or connection — not suspicion.
If it keeps failing, it becomes a review item for a person at the employer, with the evidence attached. It never becomes an automatic rejection, and the interview itself is not blocked while this is sorted out.
Can I refuse?
Verification is consent-based, and you will be told what is collected before anything happens. You can decline.
What follows is between you and the employer — whether they still proceed is their decision, not ours. We would rather state that plainly than pretend consent is unconditional when an employer has asked for it.
Does a slow connection or an older phone count against me?
It should not, and the system is built so it does not. Checks run on your device and tolerate a dropped connection — results sync when you reconnect.
If our own systems are unavailable, your interview proceeds anyway. Your job prospects should never depend on our uptime.
Something here not answered?
Write to us directly. You do not need to go through the employer who asked you to verify.