Interviews compress months or years of work into a few minutes of explanation. Capable people often struggle not because they lack evidence, but because pressure makes that evidence hard to retrieve and structure.
PoisePath explores a narrow product idea: can a calm desktop assistant reduce that retrieval gap while keeping the candidate’s actual experience as the boundary?
Why evidence labels matter
Software projects exist in many states: launched, internal, staged, prototype, paper-only, planned, or shelved. Those states are not interchangeable. PoisePath carries the label into the coaching context so a response does not quietly promote unfinished work into a production claim.
Why macOS first
Audio capture, permissions, window management, code signing, and meeting-software behavior require platform-specific verification. Concentrating on macOS lets the team prove one complete experience before considering Windows or Linux.
Why the beta is controlled
Reliability, setup completion, unsupported-claim rates, privacy controls, and user usefulness need observed evidence. The controlled beta prioritizes mock interviews and aggregate reliability measures before expansion.