# Interview (https://brainapi.lumen-labs.ai/docs/v2/ingestion/interview)

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Host a Q&A so someone can tell a brain what they know

Interview is a dashboard Add-data method. The brain owner describes who to learn from and what to capture. BrainAPI then hosts a shareable Q&A. Answers are saved with the same text ingest path as notes you paste yourself.

This is not a copy of a person. A one-hour interview captures specific work, not a full decision policy.

## When to use it

Use Interview when the knowledge lives in someone's head: hiring rules, how an incident was handled, tools that never made it into a wiki.

Use [save text](https://brainapi.lumen-labs.ai/docs/v2/ingestion/text), [files](https://brainapi.lumen-labs.ai/docs/v2/ingestion/files), or [structured data](https://brainapi.lumen-labs.ai/docs/v2/ingestion/structured-data) when you already have the words or records.

## What happens

1. In the dashboard, open a brain → **Data** → **Interview**.
2. Say who the person is and what to learn. **Prepare interview** builds a topic list you can edit.
3. **Create interview link** returns a URL like `https://brainapi.lumen-labs.ai/forms/…`.
4. The interviewee opens the link (no BrainAPI account). After they agree, the interviewer asks one question at a time about a real recent incident, then confirms what it will save.
5. Confirmed answers become a text ingest job titled `Interview · {topic}`. Follow it on **Activity**.

The public page never shows the rest of the brain. The access key never appears in the link.

## Limits

- Links expire (default 14 days) and can be paused or revoked.
- Optional passcode and “only one person may use this link”.
- Writes use the owner's monthly allowance (`form_interview` usage source).
- Guests are rate-limited.

## API

There is no BrainAPI interview endpoint. The dashboard calls `POST /ingest/` with a labeled Q&A transcript after teach-back. Optional `group_tracking` is `interview-{id}`.