For product and program managers

Your own experience,
said the way it scores.

Interview Studio turns your résumé into a story bank. Then, in the interview, it hears the question and puts the line to open with and the beats that follow on screen — with your own numbers in them.

Start Interview Studio $79/mo $79 a month (US dollars, plus any tax), renewing automatically every month until you cancel — cancel any time. Chrome or Edge on Mac or Windows; nothing to install. By subscribing you agree to the Terms of Service and confirm you’ve read the Privacy Policy.

Product senseLive cue card Strong hire

“How would you improve a grocery delivery app for busy parents?”

I’d improve the weekly shop for busy parents, not the first order — measured by repeat orders in week four.
Users by behaviour: planners, top-up shoppers, lapsed. I’d pick planners — biggest baskets, and the weekly list is a chore.
Three pains: rebuilding the same list, slot anxiety, bad substitutions. The non-obvious one is the list.
Quick fix, real build, moonshot: a one-tap usual basket, a list that learns, auto-delivery. Basket first — cheapest test, and I’ve done it: one-page checkout lifted mobile conversion 8.4%.
Painted door, then a pilot with 5% of users; ship if week-four repeat rises 3 points. Counter-metric: basket size.

headline first 2 length 1 numbers 2 ownership 2 on target 2

Program executionLive cue card Strong hire

“A critical dependency will miss the launch date. How would you recover the program?”

First I’d confirm what the date actually protects, then recover scope rather than time — on a wallet launch that slipped on me, scope was the only lever left.
Name what is truly on the critical path, with the partner on the call.
Three options, each with an owner and a risk: cut scope, bridge it, move the date.
Smallest safe release, revised milestones published, exec team told the day I know.
Result: one market live instead of three, six weeks late — and a dependency check every week since.

headline first 2 length 2 numbers 2 ownership 1 on target 2

What coaches keep flagging

Good candidates lose rounds on delivery, not ability.

late answerContext first, answer last. A minute of background before the answer arrives.

driftNumbers that drift. The same result told differently each time — and the panel has your résumé.

“we”Ownership blurred into “we”. The panel can’t tell which decision was yours.

off targetAnswering the question next to the one asked. Good story, wrong question.

All four are fixable — with the right line in front of you at the right moment.

Four parts

Set it up once. Use it through the whole loop.

Your experience becomes a story bank

Drop in every résumé version you have, plus transcripts and coaching notes if you kept them. It pulls out your stories and the numbers you can defend, maps them to the ten signals interviewers score, and flags figures that disagree between versions.

ownershipoutcomescollaborationcomplexity → actionAI depthleadershipfailurecustomer insightexecution rigourstrategy

A résumé for every job description

Paste the posting; get a tailored résumé and an eleven-point ATS check. Every bullet links back to your own material — no evidence, no bullet. Download as Word or PDF.

Seven interviewers who will cut you off

Recruiter, hiring manager, product sense, execution, bar-raiser, founder and a take-home case panel. They speak, listen and probe when you skip the decision or the number. Questions come from the job description, your weakest signals and a question bank that spans the whole loop, from recruiter screen to take-home case. Every answer is scored, with three fixes after each session.

Rehearse first if you like: nothing cuts you off, the cue card is on screen, and afterwards your opening is compared with the card’s.

Cue cards the moment the question ends

Share the call's tab and Studio listens to the interviewer — on this computer only; their voice and words never leave it. When they finish a question, your card is on screen — opening line, beats, your own figures — in a small window next to your camera. Prefer not to? Wear earbuds and restate the question yourself. No transcript is kept.

Before you buy

The plain version.

What you getA web app and a licence key, right after you subscribe. Nothing to download, no Interview Studio account to create.

Runs onChrome or Edge, on Mac or Windows. Not Safari, not phones.

You also needNothing. The AI model is included, with more monthly credit than most people use — email us if you run out. No API key.

Where your data goesYour résumés, profile and recordings stay in your browser. The text a feature needs goes through our server to the AI model (Anthropic) and isn’t stored by us; Anthropic keeps requests up to 30 days (longer if flagged for safety) and doesn’t train on them. Chrome sends your voice to Google, Edge to Microsoft, unless you turn on on-device recognition. If you let it listen to the interviewer, their voice is turned into text on your computer and never sent anywhere. Read-aloud uses a voice on your computer unless you pick an online one (or none is installed). Privacy Policy

CancellingOne press on Cancel subscription in the app’s Settings. Or at /billing, by email to contact@varidac.com (subject “Cancel”; we confirm within 24 hours), or at link.com. It stops at the end of the month you’ve paid for — no questions first.

One thing to decide for yourself

Some companies say in writing that AI assistance during an interview isn’t allowed. Whether to use live cue cards in a given interview is your call, per company — check first. If you let it listen to the interviewer, check whether you need their agreement: in California and about a dozen other US states, everyone on a call has to consent to it being transcribed. The profile, résumé, practice and rehearsal parts carry no such question.

Interview Studio

$79a month · cancel any time

The app, in your browser: story bank, tailored résumés (Word and PDF), seven practice interviewers, Rehearse and live cue cards
The question bank: questions that span the whole product and program-manager loop, from recruiter screen to take-home case
The Strong Hire frameworks: an answer shape for every question type in every cue card, and the rubric every answer is scored on
AI model credit included every month — no API key, nothing to set up
A sample profile to try everything on first
A full refund if your first month doesn’t do what our website describes — email within 14 days of your first payment; the subscription then ends

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Questions people ask

Does it record the interview?

Live mode records no audio and keeps no transcript. If you let it listen to the interviewer, the call's sound is turned into text on your computer only — never recorded, never sent to us or anyone else — and discarded when the session ends. At the end you can keep a scorecard — scores, topics, a one-line note per answer and three fixes — or discard everything. Your browser’s speech recognition turns your voice into text (Chrome through Google, Edge through Microsoft). Rehearse records your voice so you can play it back, unless you switch that off; the recording stays in your browser.

What happens if I cancel?

It keeps working to the end of the month you’ve paid for; then the AI features stop. Nothing is deleted at your end: your profile, résumés and scorecards stay in your browser, the app still opens, and you can export them from Settings (voice recordings aren’t included in the export).

What passes through your server?

The text a feature needs, on its way to the AI model (Anthropic) and back — for example the résumés and transcripts you add when you build your profile (including anything other people said in a transcript), or the question and your answer when a session is scored. We don’t store it. Our server keeps one small licence record: your email, your subscription and renewal agreement, usage totals and up to three browser ids; our host keeps standard request logs for up to 30 days. The detail is in the Privacy Policy.

Will it make up things I didn’t do?

It’s built not to. Cue cards use the stories and figures in your own profile; the résumé builder won’t write a bullet without evidence from your material, and anything it can’t source is flagged for you to check.

Is this only for product and program managers?

The question types and answer shapes come from senior product and program interviews, so that’s where it’s sharpest. The structure — headline first, your decision, a number, stop — travels to most senior roles.

Windows? iPhone? A second computer?

Windows yes, in Chrome or Edge; phones no. Your licence works in up to three browsers (a private window or cleared site data counts as a new one — email us to reset them); export your profile from Settings in one and import it in another.

Your own experience,said the way it scores.