Restoring Trust in Remote Hiring
The rise of AI tools, proxy candidates, and deepfakes has made it nearly impossible to verify who's really on the other side of a video interview. We're here to change that.
CheqMate AI gives hiring teams the confidence to interview remotely — knowing that every candidate is verified, every session is monitored for fraud in real time, and every hiring decision is backed by data, not guesswork.
What Drives Us
The principles behind every product decision we make.
Integrity First
Every feature we build starts with one question — does this make hiring more fair and trustworthy?
Transparency
No black boxes. Candidates and companies both deserve clarity on how verification works.
Human-Centered
Technology should empower interviewers and protect honest candidates — not replace human judgment.
Privacy by Design
We collect only what we need, encrypt everything, and never store interview audio or video.
From Idea to Impact
Key milestones in the CheqMate AI story.
2024
The Problem
Our founding team witnessed a surge in AI-assisted cheating across technical interviews — and realized existing tools couldn't keep up.
2024
Research & Development
We assembled a team of security engineers and HR technology experts to build detection that works in real time, without disrupting interviews.
2025
Research & Prototyping
Extensive R&D on real-time detection — behavioral analysis, gaze tracking, deepfake identification, and AI copilot detection.
2026
CheqMate AI Launches
CheqMate Shield and CheqMate Assist go live — the first dual-layer solution for fraud detection and interviewer coaching. Trusted by 50+ hiring teams worldwide.
Meet Arushi Agarwal
The entrepreneur behind TalentDecrypt and CheqMate AI.
Arushi Agarwal
Co-Founder & CEO, TalentDecrypt & CheqMate AI
With an engineering degree and a management degree from IIM Bangalore, Arushi founded TalentDecrypt in 2020 to fix what she saw broken in hiring — starting from scratch during the pandemic.
What started as a secure coding assessment platform quickly grew into a global enterprise, serving 380+ companies across the US, Singapore, Germany, UAE, South Africa, and more — helping over 1 million individuals find employment worldwide.
Recognized by the Indian government as one of the country's top entrepreneurs, Arushi saw the next frontier of hiring fraud — AI-assisted interview cheating — and built CheqMate AI to tackle it head-on.
TalentDecrypt Private Limited
Parent Company
CheqMate AI is a product of TalentDecrypt, a hiring technology company serving 380+ organizations across 8+ countries. From secure coding assessments to real-time interview integrity — we're building the trust layer for modern recruitment.
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