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Verified Prep and defensibility on a candidate

Candidate-consented prep signals plus a per-bullet evidence ledger — what they did to prepare, and what they can defend in an interview.

The Verified Prep panel

On a candidate profile, the Verified Prep panel appears only when the candidate explicitly shared their prep — it carries a "Shared by candidate" chip. It summarises:

  • CV Tailored — whether they tailored for this role, at which intensity, and the Authenticity N/100 score (or "not yet graded").
  • Which CV variant they applied with — Raw CV, Parsed CV or Tailored CV — when recorded.
  • Cover Letter — generated or not, word count, and a Read cover letter expander.
  • Interview Drills — drills completed and average coverage. You never see their actual answers.

The privacy default — read it correctly

When there's no panel you'll see one grey line: "Candidate has not shared their prep signals." This renders identically whether the candidate prepped privately or didn't prep at all — by design, you cannot tell the difference, so non-sharing can't be held against anyone. CVs you uploaded yourself read "Candidate applied via recruiter upload; no prep signals available."

The Defensibility panel

Below the notes sits Defensibility — "Per-bullet evidence ledger — what the candidate can defend in an interview." The header gives the plain-English aggregate ("N of M bullets grounded") and each bullet carries a chip:

  • Grounded (green) — supported by the source CV.
  • Verified (amber) — the ledger flagged it, and the candidate explicitly confirmed they can defend it. Candidate-confirmed, not independently verified.
  • Unsupported (red) — no source match and not confirmed.
  • Ungraded — not yet graded by the authenticity check.

Click any bullet to load the source-CV excerpt that grounds it — the evidence is the candidate's own CV text.

The badge and the frozen snapshot

When a candidate shares a pack, its public page carries the A1 Verified badge and a "Verify the badge ↗" link to the signed, tamper-evident record. The authenticity snapshot is frozen at the moment the candidate approved, so what you see is exactly what they signed off — later re-tailoring doesn't rewrite it. To pull a shared pack into your own pipeline, see claiming a verified pack.