§ The result
Enhancv leads Interview Sidekick on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 38 points between Enhancv (Resume AI) and Interview Sidekick (Live interview): 68 (D) for Enhancv, 30 (F) for Interview Sidekick. Enhancv leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Application Honesty among them; Interview Sidekick leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Employer & ATS Legitimacy (Enhancv 78, Interview Sidekick 20) and Application Honesty at 20% (Enhancv 68, Interview Sidekick 18), the second being 27% of the weighted advantage Enhancv holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Enhancv
Enhancv is a Bulgaria-based resume and cover-letter builder that pairs templates with an AI writing assistant, a 27-check ATS resume checker, one-click tailoring to a job description, and supporting tools including a Kanban job application tracker, a Chrome extension for saving postings, an AI job board and AI mock interviews.
Vendor profile
Interview Sidekick
Interview Sidekick is a desktop AI interview assistant that offers mock-interview practice and a 10,000+ question bank before interviews, and during live interviews transcribes the interviewer's questions and feeds the candidate suggested answers through an on-screen overlay it markets as invisible to screen sharing.
§ The record
Enhancv is filed under Resume & profile AI, Interview Sidekick under Live interview assistance. They also share 1 secondary category: Career coaching.
| Record | Enhancv | Interview Sidekick |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | BG | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Enhancv 68 · Interview Sidekick 18
10.0 weighted points to Enhancv
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Enhancv 78 · Interview Sidekick 20
8.7 weighted points to Enhancv
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Enhancv 60 · Interview Sidekick 28
6.4 weighted points to Enhancv
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Enhancv 80 · Interview Sidekick 42
5.7 weighted points to Enhancv
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Enhancv 52 · Interview Sidekick 25
3.2 weighted points to Enhancv
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Enhancv 72 · Interview Sidekick 48
1.9 weighted points to Enhancv
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Enhancv 62 · Interview Sidekick 48
1.4 weighted points to Enhancv
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +37.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 37.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +38 beside that +37.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Enhancv minus Interview Sidekick.
| Category | Weight | Enhancv | Interview Sidekick | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 68 | 18 | +50 | +10.0 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 60 | 28 | +32 | +6.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 80 | 42 | +38 | +5.7 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 78 | 20 | +58 | +8.7 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 52 | 25 | +27 | +3.2 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +1.4 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 72 | 48 | +24 | +1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 68 (D) | 30 (F) | +38 | +37.4 |
§ 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 | Enhancv | Interview Sidekick | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Enhancv has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Interview Sidekick has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Interview Sidekick sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Enhancv, across 3 distinct source domains, and 34 for Interview Sidekick, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Enhancv last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Interview Sidekick last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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