Talview

What it is

Talview is an interviewing and proctoring platform that also checks the candidate is who they claim to be. It runs one-way and live video interviews, an AI interviewer, online exams and identity checks in a single candidate session. The company is based in San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2017 out of an earlier Indian business, Interview Master, and is led by co-founder and CEO Sanjoe Tom Jose. Talview says it serves 2,500+ organizations and has assessed more than 10 million candidates in 120+ countries. Named customers include PwC, Cognizant, HCL Technologies, KPMG and Cambridge Assessment.

The product is sold as a set of AI agents. Ivy is the AI interviewer: an avatar that asks questions, follows up when an answer is thin, and scores responses. Alvy is the proctoring agent. It watches the session for other apps, second devices, extra people and AI answer tools, and is covered by US patent 12,361,115, granted in July 2025. Verity handles identity and credential checks. Together with the platform’s other fraud controls, that covers ID-to-selfie matching, face and voice matching that continues through the session, AML and third-party ID database lookups, and deepfake detection. In May 2026 Talview grouped them under the Assessment Intelligence Operations Platform (AIOP), which treats organised cheating as a threat-intelligence problem rather than a flag-and-review queue.

Why it shows up in Recruiting stacks

Most AI interviewers score the answer and trust the face. Most identity vendors verify the face and know nothing about the interview. Talview runs both in the same session. That is why it appears in 2026 candidate-fraud vendor lists next to BrightHire, and why it answers “HireVue vs Sapia vs Talview” when proving identity is a hard requirement. Its Candidate Authentication feature for Microsoft Teams, launched in June 2023, matches the person on a live Teams interview to a government ID. It came from the exam market, where impersonation has been a problem for longer than in hiring.

The ATS list is broad for a company this size: Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, iCIMS, SmartRecruiters, Taleo, BrassRing, Eightfold, Beamery and Avature. There are also 14 LMS connectors, Moodle, Canvas and Docebo among them, for teams that run certification exams too.

Pricing reality

Talview publishes no prices. Pricing is unit-based: each feature, such as a proctored exam, an Ivy interview or an ID check, uses a set number of units per candidate. Quotes are banded by annual candidate volume: under 200, 200 to 1,000, 1,000 to 5,000, and over 5,000. Talview’s pricing page states a minimum commitment of about 150 to 200 candidates. Third-party pricing aggregators put implementation at $500 to $1,000 over 1 to 2 weeks for small deployments, and $5,000 to $10,000 over 4 to 6 weeks for enterprises with ATS integration.

In practice you are buying a per-candidate price. It falls steeply between volume bands, and it rises with each agent you add to the session. We could not find a credible public per-candidate figure, so get quotes for two configurations: interview plus ID check, and interview plus ID check plus full proctoring. The gap between them is the price of fraud controls, and it tells you whether that layer pays for itself.

Best for

A TA operations lead or high-volume recruiting manager hiring 500+ candidates a year into remote, offshore-delivery or credential-gated roles, where proxy interviewing has already cost a bad hire. IT services, consulting and BPO hiring in India, where many of Talview’s named customers sit, is the clearest fit. So is any employer that also runs a certification or licensing exam and wants one vendor for both.

Skip it if you hire fewer than 150 people a year through a screened funnel, because the minimum commitment is wasted. Skip it too if your interviews stay on Zoom or Google Meet and you only want deepfake detection on those calls, since Talview’s strongest controls run in its own interview room and its browser lockdown. Senior and executive hiring is the third case: an AI avatar plus a 360-degree room scan is the wrong first impression.

Versus the alternatives

HireVue leads on market share in enterprise video interviewing. Pick it when the priority is deep Workday/SAP deployment and structured-interview content at Fortune 500 scale, and identity is handled elsewhere.

Sapia.ai interviews by text chat and never sees a face. Pick it for frontline volume hiring where bias exposure worries you more than impersonation. It cannot prove identity, and it does not need to.

Alex (Apriora) is the fastest-growing AI interviewer: a $17M Series A in September 2025 and 1,000,000+ interviews claimed. Pick it for conversational first-round screens over video, phone and WhatsApp, with a lighter identity step.

Persona or GetReal Security are the pick when you want to keep your current interview tool and bolt verification or forensic deepfake detection onto it. For university or certification exams alone, compare Talview against Proctorio and Honorlock.

If none fit, start with process. A live, unscripted interview round, a document check at offer stage and a background screen before start catch most proxy candidates without any new vendor.

Watch-outs

• Proctoring false positives. G2 reviewers report that AI-only proctoring over-flags some violation rules and that candidate-facing error messages are vague. Guard: run a 50-candidate pilot with human review of every flag, set rejection to require human confirmation, and put the false-positive rate in the order form as a success metric.
• Biometric and AI-scoring law applies. Face and voice matching is biometric processing, and Ivy’s scoring can count as an automated employment decision tool under NYC Local Law 144. AI analysis of recorded video interviews also falls under the Illinois AI Video Interview Act. Guard: get Talview’s bias-audit results and data-retention terms before signing, collect explicit consent in the invite, and in the EU disable any feature that infers emotion or stress, which the EU AI Act prohibits in the workplace.
• Funding figures in circulation are inconsistent. Talview’s own record shows a $6.75M Series A (2019) and a $15M Series B led by Eileses Capital (July 2021). Some aggregators report a $22.5M raise in July 2025 that Talview’s channels do not confirm. Guard: treat it as a roughly 280-person company funded in 2021, ask for audited SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 reports, and cap terms at 12 months.
• Candidate experience can suffer. Lockdown browsers, secondary-camera checks and an avatar interviewer add friction. Guard: use full proctoring only on the stage where fraud occurs, usually the technical assessment, and keep the rest of the loop human. See candidate experience.

For the threat model behind this category, read AI interview fraud.