§ The result
Careerflow leads LockedIn AI on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 33 points between Careerflow (Career coaching) and LockedIn AI (Live interview): 60 (D) for Careerflow, 27 (F) for LockedIn AI. Careerflow is ahead of LockedIn AI on all 7 criteria, every one of them by 20 raw points or more. Employer & ATS Legitimacy is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Careerflow 66, LockedIn AI 10, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 25% of the weighted advantage Careerflow holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Careerflow
An AI "career copilot" for job seekers that builds and ATS-optimizes resumes, optimizes LinkedIn profiles, writes cover letters, tracks applications with browser-extension autofill across 45+ ATS platforms, and runs AI mock interviews.
Vendor profile
LockedIn AI
LockedIn AI is a real-time interview copilot that listens to a job seeker's live interview, coding round or online assessment and displays AI-generated answers, code and coaching on their screen, alongside free resume, cover-letter and job-tracking tools.
§ The record
Careerflow is filed under AI career coaching, LockedIn AI under Live interview assistance. They also share 2 secondary categories: Resume AI and Tracker.
| Record | Careerflow | LockedIn AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2020 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Careerflow 66 · LockedIn AI 10
8.4 weighted points to Careerflow
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Careerflow 50 · LockedIn AI 12
7.6 weighted points to Careerflow
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Careerflow 73 · LockedIn AI 48
5.0 weighted points to Careerflow
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Careerflow 66 · LockedIn AI 40
3.9 weighted points to Careerflow
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Careerflow 40 · LockedIn AI 10
3.6 weighted points to Careerflow
10% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Careerflow 60 · LockedIn AI 33
2.7 weighted points to Careerflow
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Careerflow 64 · LockedIn AI 40
1.9 weighted points to Careerflow
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +33.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 33.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +33 beside that +33.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Careerflow minus LockedIn AI.
| Category | Weight | Careerflow | LockedIn AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 50 | 12 | +38 | +7.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 73 | 48 | +25 | +5.0 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 66 | 40 | +26 | +3.9 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 66 | 10 | +56 | +8.4 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 40 | 10 | +30 | +3.6 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 60 | 33 | +27 | +2.7 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 64 | 40 | +24 | +1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 60 (D) | 27 (F) | +33 | +33.1 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Careerflow | LockedIn AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 0 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Careerflow has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; LockedIn AI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LockedIn AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Careerflow, across 3 distinct source domains, and 30 for LockedIn AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Careerflow last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LockedIn AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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