An interview copilot for Microsoft Teams interviews.

Why the Teams client version does not matter

Teams comes in several shapes — the desktop app, Teams in a browser, and Teams running inside a virtual desktop on a locked-down corporate machine. Candidates often do not get to choose which one the interviewer uses, and a tool that hooks into a specific client breaks the moment that changes.

AcePilot does not integrate with Teams. It reads the audio your own machine is playing and transcribes it locally, which means the client version, the tenant configuration and whether Teams is running in Edge or Chrome are all irrelevant to it. There is no Teams app to install, no admin consent to request, and nothing for a tenant policy to block.

Screen sharing in Teams, specifically

Teams lets you share your whole desktop, a specific window, or a PowerPoint. Sharing a window is the narrow case; sharing the desktop sends everything an ordinary screen recorder would capture. AcePilot is excluded from screen capture and window enumeration, so it is absent from Teams' share picker and absent from the stream the interviewer receives in either mode.

Teams also has a habit enterprise candidates know well: the interviewer shares first, to walk you through a role description or a system diagram. That is incoming video, not outgoing — nothing about it changes what is visible on your side.

Recording, transcription and compliance

This is where Teams genuinely differs from consumer tools, and it is worth being precise:

• Meeting recording captures the call audio and the shared screen stream. AcePilot is not in that stream, and it never produces sound, so it contributes nothing to a recording.
• Live transcription and Copilot summaries are built from spoken audio. Anything you read silently off your own monitor is not spoken audio.
• Compliance recording is a real feature in regulated industries, applied at the tenant level to everything a Teams user does. It records the Teams session — again, the call and the shared stream.

None of that is an argument that policy does not apply to you. It is a description of what the technology captures. The policy question is separate, and we address it below.

Setting up before a Teams loop

• Install into Applications on macOS and always launch from there, then grant Screen Recording and Microphone and restart the app with Command-Q. On Windows, run the installer and allow the microphone when asked — Windows needs no separate screen-recording permission.
• Expect several rounds. Enterprise Teams loops often run four or five conversations across a week. Load your resume and the job description once and it carries across all of them.
• Use headphones. Panel interviews mean several voices at varying volumes; speaker bleed into your microphone degrades transcription for all of them.

The complete setup walkthrough for both platforms lives on the download page.

What it will not do

AcePilot works from your own resume and the job description, so it surfaces your experience with structure applied — not invented achievements, and not a script to read. In a panel round that matters more than usual: five people asking follow-ups will find the seams in anything you did not actually do.

Questions people ask about Teams

Does AcePilot work with Microsoft Teams on the web?

Yes, because AcePilot does not depend on the Teams client at all. It reads the audio your machine is playing, so it behaves the same whether the interview runs in the Teams desktop app, Teams in a browser, or Teams on a virtual desktop.

Will AcePilot show up in a Teams meeting recording or transcript?

No. Teams recordings and live transcripts are built from what Teams itself captures — the call audio and the shared screen stream. AcePilot is excluded from screen capture, so it is not in the shared stream, and it never speaks, so it contributes nothing to the transcript.

Do enterprise Teams policies change anything?

They can. Large organisations often run Teams with compliance recording, and some hiring processes explicitly prohibit outside assistance. Those are policy questions rather than technical ones — read the rules you were sent and decide for yourself.

Before you use it

Plenty of employers publish rules for their hiring process, and some prohibit outside assistance outright. We would rather say that plainly than route around it: read the rules of any process you take part in and decide for yourself. Our acceptable use policy sets out where we draw our own line, and the disclaimer is honest about what AcePilot is not.