The interface
URHIRED AI has three surfaces you interact with: the hub, the workspace, and the interview control bar.
The hub
The hub is a small, frameless logo pill docked to the right edge of your active display. It is deliberately tiny — it is the only part of the app that stays visible when the main window is hidden, and it never takes a Dock icon or a taskbar button.
It supports exactly three interactions: click to open the main window, right-click for a quick menu — Open main window or Close app — and a vertical drag to slide it along the screen edge. It repositions itself automatically if you change displays or resolution.
No Dock icon, no taskbar button — the pill is the whole footprint.
| State | What you see |
|---|---|
| Signed out | The pill. Clicking it takes you to sign-in; the right-click menu still lets you close the app. |
| Loading | The pill with a small loading indicator while your session is checked. |
| Ready | The pill. Click to open the workspace — starting and ending interviews happens there, not on the hub. |
The workspace
The main window. Before an interview it shows your home dashboard — recent interviews on the left rail and the setup form in the middle. During an interview it becomes the assistant workspace with the three surface tabs. The magnifier beside the tabs — or ⌘F — opens find-in-thread, so you can jump back to something said earlier without scrolling.
The interview control bar
During a session, a compact control bar gives you everything you would otherwise reach for with a shortcut — useful when you would rather not take your hands off the mouse. It holds more than fits on screen at once, with the rest tucked into a "More" menu; the controls you will use most include:
- Model tier — flip between your Quick and Reasoning models; applies to surfaces left on the default model in Settings.
- Answer style — switch between Conversational, Hints, Structured, STAR, and Explain.
- Web search — let the model look things up, on the OpenAI models.
- Thread instructions — standing instructions for this surface.
- Audio device — pick which devices the transcriber listens to.
- Message filter — narrow the thread to interviewer, you, or the AI answer.
- Font size, click-through, mute, and pause — the in-session essentials.
- Shortcut reference — the full hotkey list without leaving the session.
- Session status
- Recording dot, elapsed time, and a waveform that moves while speech is being heard.
- Model tier
- Flip between your Quick and Reasoning models on surfaces left on the default model.
- Web search
- Let the model look things up.
- Answer style
- Conversational, Hints, Structured, STAR, or Explain — shown on the Chat surface.
- Thread instructions
- Standing instructions the assistant follows on this surface.
- Auto answer
- Send interviewer questions to the assistant automatically, or keep sends manual.
- Message filter
- Narrow the thread to the interviewer, you, or the AI answers.
- Clear memory
- Reset the assistant's context — chat history in the UI is unchanged.
- Auto-scroll
- Follow answers as they stream in.
- Newest first
- Flip the thread so the latest message sits at the top.
- Font size
- Step the answer text larger or smaller.
- Click-through
- The overlay ignores your mouse; buttons swap to their keyboard shortcuts.
- Shortcut reference
- The full hotkey list without leaving the session.
- Audio devices
- Pick which devices the transcriber listens to.
- Mic mute
- Pause your microphone's transcription — interviewer audio continues.
- Transcription mute
- Hold all transcription so nothing is forwarded to the thread.
- Pause
- Pause transcription and sends, and freeze the session timer.
- End session
- End the interview — asks you to confirm first.