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When you send email invitations, each candidate receives a unique assessment or AI interview link that only they can use. AI interview invitations go out from the same email invitations dashboard as assessment invitations.
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Candidate opens the link and gets a verification code

Equip sends a verification code to the invited email address. See Candidate Login Methods for the sign-in flow.
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Candidate verifies and starts

The code takes them straight to the assessment or AI interview. No password or account is needed.
Code prompt on the Verify your email page, reading Enter the 6-digit Equip Login Code that was sent to your email above six empty boxes, a Verify and Continue button and a Return button, with a note that the address entered was hannah.brooks@example.com

The candidate enters the 6-digit code sent to the invited email address

Because the verification code always goes to the original invitee’s inbox, forwarding a link does not transfer the invitation.

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Switching devices

Clicking the link again on a different device resumes the attempt with the remaining time intact. A fresh invitation therefore cannot grant a second attempt: any new link resumes the unfinished attempt. See Candidate Re-Attempts to allow a genuine retake. By default, invitation links never expire. To set an expiry, enter 1 to 365 in the Link Expiry (days) field on the Send Invitations tab, and links stop working that many days after sending. The field works the same way for AI interview invitations.
Send Invitations form showing the Sender dropdown and, below it, the Link Expiry (days) field focused with 7 typed in and the hint Links will expire after these many days

Link Expiry (days) sits under Sender on the Send Invitations tab

To control the exact start window instead, use the Cannot Start Before and Cannot Start After assessment settings.
When a link stops working, the candidate sees a page that explains why. For AI interviews, an expired or invalid link shows a Link Expired or Link Invalid page asking them to contact whoever shared it. If a candidate says they never received or lost their link, check its email status first, then re-invite. The unused link’s credit is reclaimable after 24 hours as long as the candidate never started.
An invitation is revoked only by reclaiming the credit, which is destructive: it invalidates the candidate’s link and deletes any test data tied to it. Only reclaim when you are sure the candidate should not, or will not, attempt the assessment.