Questions, answered

No. Interboard is independent practice and preparation software. It is not affiliated with, authorised or endorsed by RICS, IChemE, or any awarding body, and it does not guarantee any assessment outcome. Awarding body names are used only to describe the assessment you are preparing for.

The panel reads your actual submission and asks one question at a time, choosing each next question from your last answer - pressing vague answers, challenging contradictions it found in your documents, and acknowledging strong ones. It follows your body's real interview structure and timing, and you can set the toughness from Gentle to Tough. It is designed to feel like a conversation with a live panel, not a quiz.

Paste the job description or advert for the role you're targeting, and - if you have them - your CV or background and any questions the employer emailed you ahead of the interview. The panel uses all of it to ask about exactly what this employer is looking for. You don't provide a formal submission or map yourself to competency levels; those steps only apply to the chartered tracks (RICS APC, IChemE CEng). If you have nothing ready yet, Generic Mode still gives you a realistic interview off the track alone.

Start with a general competency-based interview, or pick a structured chartered viva: RICS APC or IChemE CEng. Each one runs the real structure and timing for that assessment.

There's a free trial with 1 full mock interview, the first 2 lessons of the plan and a headline debrief - enough to get a real feel for it. When you're ready, the Assessment Window Pass is a single payment of £497 that unlocks unlimited mock interviews, the complete lesson plan and your full post-interview analysis. It's a one-time payment, not a subscription: your access runs from the day you buy until your interview date plus 30 days. See our pricing page for the full comparison.

The Pass carries an unconditional refund: 14 days or 2 full mocks, whichever comes first. Message us from the contact page inside that window, no reason required, and we'll refund it in full. Both halves are stated because access starts the moment you pay, so the clock is not the only thing that can run out. It's a satisfaction guarantee on the software; like any honest prep tool we can't guarantee a real assessment result.

The Chartered Guarantee is our conditional promise, and it is conditional on our programme rather than on your result. Complete the readiness programme inside your window (6 full mock interviews, your full lesson track, and drills on every competency your debriefs rated red) and, if your final result is a referral, your next assessment window is free, retargeted at what your referral report found. Referred again and the one after that is free too. Complete the programme in all 3 windows and if you are still not chartered, we refund your payment in full. Every condition, including how far the ladder runs, which assessment each window is bound to, how to claim and how an approved cash claim is settled, is published on the guarantees page. We never promise an assessment outcome.

No, and this is a promise rather than a limitation. RICS restricted generative AI in submission writing in June 2025. We will not sell you a rule breach, and we will not help you edge up to one. We interrogate what you wrote. We never author it.

Your documents, analysis and sessions are stored in your own account, encrypted in transit and at rest, and we never put your submission text or transcripts in our logs or analytics. You can export your data, delete an individual document, or permanently delete everything at any time from Settings. Your submission is processed by a third-party AI provider, which is why we ask for your explicit consent before analysing a real submission. See our Privacy Policy.

Before analysing a submission we ask you to confirm you're happy for it to be processed by our third-party AI provider - and we recommend redacting client names, exact figures and identifying detail first (placeholders like [Client] and ~£14m work just as well for practice). The provider may use submitted content to improve its models, so don't paste anything you're not comfortable sharing under those terms. See our Privacy Policy for how to redact.

No. Voice is there so you can practise out loud the way the real interview happens - you hold to speak and the panel speaks back. But every answer can be typed, and the panel can be muted. If your browser doesn't support speech, Interboard automatically falls back to text only.

Recording and playback work in any modern browser. Voice features use your browser's built-in capabilities, and where something isn't supported the app degrades gracefully to text.

You can still use Interboard in Generic Mode, which runs off the awarding body profile alone - you'll get the lesson plan and a realistic interview, just without questions tailored to your specific submission. Add your documents later to unlock the personalised experience.