Questions people ask us.

ClockIN is a professional network built around proof of work. You can show projects and skills, build professional context around real work, find opportunities, and follow an application through the hiring process.

No. ClockIN at goclockin.com is a professional network built around proof of work, jobs and hiring. It is not an employee time-tracking, shift clock-in or attendance product.

Yes. You do not need a login, email or payment to use the public ATS + Tools collection. You get the full result first. An account is only needed if you want to use the main ClockIN product.

There is an ATS resume checker, a resume parser view, resume-to-JD matching, a JD quality checker, a job-description decoder, interview readiness and an application-readiness checker.

No. There is no single universal ATS score. ClockIN checks whether a resume is machine-readable, whether the structure is familiar and how the resume lines up with a job description. It does not claim to copy an employer's private ranking system.

The public tools process the resume or job-description content needed for your result, but they do not store that content. We can keep a short-lived salted network fingerprint, the tool name and a request count to prevent abuse. A resume you intentionally submit with a ClockIN application is handled separately and can be stored privately for the hiring team.

Skill Proof is a ClockIN assessment for supported skills. It uses several kinds of questions and tasks, then reports an L1-L5 level based on what you demonstrated. Recruiters do not get to invent a minimum L1-L5 cutoff for a role.

The recruiter chooses the skills that matter for the role. If ClockIN has Skill Proof for those skills, that result can be part of the review. An interview can add more information when needed. The hiring team still makes the final decision.

No. Some interviews can use a model-assisted adaptive flow when the required service is available. If it is not available, ClockIN can use a fixed set of job-relevant questions instead. We do not invent an AI score for those fallback sessions.

If a role uses integrity monitoring and discloses it, ClockIN can record supported session events such as focus changes, device interruptions, clipboard attempts or recording interruptions. Those events are shown as context for review. They do not automatically lower a skill score or prove cheating.

No. Projects can be software, financial models, campaigns, design work, research, strategy, data work, hardware or other professional work. Add the project and your personal contribution first. GitHub is only one optional kind of evidence.

You can attach a public link or upload a local artifact such as a document, spreadsheet, presentation, image, video, dataset or other file. Evidence can be public on the project or marked for verification only. An attached artifact is evidence on the record; it does not automatically prove authorship.

Source verification is now an optional extra signal. If you complete a ClockIN challenge for a public repository or deployed site, it shows that you controlled that source at that time. It does not prove that you created the whole project or wrote every line.

Project Defence is an evidence-locked defence of the actual project you submitted. To start, you need a Defence-readable GitHub repository or a supported PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, CSV, JSON, TXT or Markdown artifact; uploaded files used for automatic inspection are bounded to 4 MB. ClockIN builds eight challenges covering ownership, evidence pinpointing, reconstruction, a hidden project detail, failure injection, false-claim correction, a verification plan and cross-answer consistency. Fresh attempts privately rotate eligible project facts, while resuming an active attempt keeps the same challenge set. Each challenge has a 2 minute 30 second server clock and the full session lasts 22 minutes. The normal product flow requires a fresh camera, local MediaPipe calibration and fullscreen preflight, but these are browser-reported deterrence controls rather than a cryptographic device lock. MediaPipe checks face presence, extra people, visible phones and sustained eye/head attention locally on the device. No LLM, embedding model or paid vision API is used during Project Defence.

ClockIN does not use BM25 or an AI model to judge unrestricted prose. Automatic points are limited to project-specific checks the system can verify deterministically: project-fact evidence (60), ownership consistency (25) and a structured verification plan (15). Automatic approval also requires the ownership-boundary challenge itself, the failure-injection structure, the cross-answer consistency challenge and the verification-plan challenge to pass, plus at least one inspectable evidence source. The failure-injection answer is mandatory but is not semantically scored by a model. Verified uses the configured 60/100 threshold. Verified+ uses 80/100 and also requires zero objective project-fact failures in automatic scoring. Uncertain substantive cases go to human review. Multiple blank or timed-out challenges can require another pass, and configured fullscreen, camera or repeated-paste limits can invalidate the verified session.

AI-assisted work is allowed. ClockIN does not try to guess whether a project was generated by AI. The important question is whether you can explain the work, the decisions and assumptions behind it, what you personally contributed and how you would validate or improve it.

ClockIN can use role skills, Skill Proof, work on the profile, preferences, location and work mode. The match should also show the reasons behind it, so you are not left with a percentage and no explanation.

The hiring team can review Skill Proof, interview evidence, integrity context and a screening recommendation. ClockIN can also prepare a candidate report. These help the team review the candidate; they do not make the final employment decision.

Yes. The older source-control challenge remains available as an optional trust signal and for compatible existing projects. It is no longer required before you can add or defend a project.

Yes. The skills catalog is broader than the Skill Proof library. A skill can be used on a role even when ClockIN does not yet have an assessment for it.

Application status stays visible on ClockIN, along with the response expectations for the role. The goal is simple: an application should end with an answer instead of disappearing into silence.

No. Your login email is account data and is not automatically copied to your public profile. Optional contact fields have their own visibility settings.

No. ClockIN is still in pre-beta. We are testing the product in small groups and changing it as we learn what works. If data handling or platform rules change in a meaningful way, the relevant Privacy or Terms page will be updated.