If you work with candidates for a living — placing them, coaching them through a redundancy, getting them ready for the graduate market — you already know the gap. You can polish a CV in an afternoon. What you can't easily hand someone is reps: live, realistic interview pressure, taken before the interview that counts.
That's what this launches. aurate Passport is a sponsored seat: a recruiter, university careers service, or outplacement firm funds one live AI interview practice session — and the complete Vibe Card it produces — for one named candidate. The session runs at Ultra grade, the top of aurate's consumer range, and everything it produces belongs to the candidate, not the funder.
Passport is live now for UK launch partners. Here's what it is, how it works, who it's for, and exactly what you do — and don't — see about your candidate's session.
What a Passport is (and what it isn't)
One Passport funds one session for one named person. Specifically:
- One named candidate. A Passport is minted against a candidate's email address and works only for them. It can't be forwarded, pooled, or reused.
- The full session, not a sample. Around 30 minutes of live, voice-first interviewing — the complete multi-segment pressure interview, calibrated to the candidate's CV and target role, with follow-ups built on what they actually say.
- The complete Vibe Card. The full feedback a top-tier aurate customer gets, marked with a Passport badge — more on what's in it below.
- Candidate-owned, aurate-branded. The candidate redeems the Passport into their own aurate account, under aurate's standard consumer terms. Your organisation is named to them as the funder — and that's the extent of the branding.
Three things a Passport is not: white-label software (aurate is aurate-branded throughout — you fund the seat, not the brand), screening (you evaluate nobody and receive no results), or a dashboard (there is nothing for a sponsor to log into at all).
How a Passport works
- You send us their email. We mint a Passport per candidate and email each one a personal redemption link. The link is tied to the person it was minted for — it works for no one else.
- They claim it. Your candidate creates their own aurate account (or signs in) and accepts the Passport under aurate's standard consumer terms — from then on, the session relationship is between aurate and them.
- They face the full session. A live AI interview built from their CV and the role's job description — adaptive follow-ups, real pressure, the same session a retail Ultra customer sits.
- They keep the feedback. The session ends in the complete Vibe Card, marked with its Passport badge — theirs to act on before the interview that matters.
A redemption link is valid for 30 days, and a claimed Passport is good for another 30 — enough room to schedule the session around a real interview date without the seat evaporating.
Who sponsors a Passport?
One product, three very different reasons to fund it.
Recruitment agencies and recruiters
Better-prepared candidates interview better and place faster — and they remember who sent them in match-fit. First-round processes are increasingly structured — the CIPD's selection guidance recommends structured interviews because they minimise bias — and structured processes reward candidates who arrive with evidence rather than charm. A candidate who has already faced calibrated pressure on the exact role walks in with both. The value to you is the outcome and the credit for funding it — Passport is not a data product, and your candidates know it.
Universities and careers services
One-to-one interview coaching doesn't scale to a cohort, and workshops can't simulate the pressure of being in the room. A Passport gives a sponsored student the real thing: a live, adaptive session calibrated to graduate schemes, placements, or internships in their field. Every sponsored student finishes with a concrete Vibe Score and a fix-first analysis they can bring straight into their next careers appointment — not just the ones who book a coaching slot.
Outplacement and career-transition firms
Employers already fund per-head transition support, but content libraries and portals don't rebuild interview confidence after a redundancy. Passport adds a live practice layer to that support: honest, adaptive pressure, with feedback your consultants can coach against when the candidate chooses to share it — a premium, human offboarding benefit, delivered per head, when it matters most.
What your candidate walks away with
The deliverable is the Vibe Card — the same feedback artefact every full aurate session produces. On the front: a Vibe Score out of 100 with a plain-English band, four sub-scores (Logic, Resilience, Synthesis, Specificity), the single Biggest Gap costing them offers, their Strongest Signal, and one concrete next step. Behind it sits the deeper Autopsy: theme-by-theme verdicts, their own answers quoted back as evidence anchors, a fit assessment against the target role, and Run Over Run progression across sessions. A Passport-funded card carries a Passport badge; everything else is identical to the card a retail Ultra customer earns.
The fastest way to gauge the quality is to look at one — see a complete sample Vibe Card, no signup required.
Their session is theirs
Here is the part worth reading twice: you receive nothing at the individual level. Not scores. Not the transcript. Not the feedback. Not even whether your candidate completed the session. There is no sponsor dashboard and no sponsor reporting — the boundary is structural, not a settings toggle — and candidates are told exactly where it sits when they accept the Passport.
That's Privacy-First Design, under aurate's standard consumer Terms and Privacy Policy — and it's also what makes a sponsored seat get used: a candidate who knows the session is genuinely theirs takes real swings in it, and real swings produce feedback worth acting on. What you get is a better-prepared candidate and the credit for funding them. That's the deal, stated plainly.
Been given a Passport?
If an organisation has funded a Passport for you, it means one full aurate session — Ultra grade, the top of our consumer range — is yours, already paid for. Your personal redemption link is in your email, and it works only for you. You'll create your own aurate account under our standard consumer terms, and nothing about the session — answers, scores, feedback — goes back to the organisation that funded it; they're named to you as the funder, and that's all they get. If you want the fuller picture before you claim it, read how a session works.
FAQ
What is aurate Passport?
aurate Passport is a sponsored seat on aurate: a recruiter, university careers service, or outplacement firm funds one live AI interview practice session for one named candidate. The session runs at Ultra grade and ends in a complete Vibe Card, which belongs to the candidate. The sponsor pays for the seat; the candidate owns the session.
What does the sponsor see about a candidate's session?
Nothing at the individual level — no scores, no feedback, no transcript, and not even whether the session was completed. There is no sponsor dashboard or reporting surface. The sponsoring organisation is named to the candidate as the funder, and that is the extent of its involvement.
Is aurate Passport white-label software?
No. Passport is aurate-branded throughout — the sponsor funds a seat rather than rebranding or hosting the product. It is also not a screening tool: the sponsor evaluates nobody and receives no results about any individual.
What does a candidate need to redeem a Passport?
Just the personal redemption link emailed to them, plus an aurate account of their own — creating one takes a minute. The link works only for the person the Passport was minted for. A redemption link is valid for 30 days, and a claimed Passport is good for another 30.
How do we sponsor Passports for our candidates?
Get in touch. Passports are issued in small batches, agreed directly, and we're onboarding UK launch partners first. Tell us who you support and roughly how many people a year via our enterprise page, or email sales@aurateai.com.
If you place, coach, or prepare candidates and want to put real practice in front of them, read more and get in touch on the enterprise page or email sales@aurateai.com — we're onboarding UK launch partners now. There's nothing to buy on a screen: tell us who you support, and we'll take it from there.