§ The result
Final Round AI leads Interview Sidekick by 6 points.
Final Round AI scores 36 and Interview Sidekick 30 under rubric js-v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the Live interview cohort. Final Round AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Data & Credential Safety, while Interview Sidekick leads 1, including Pricing & Cancellation Fairness, and 1 is level. Data & Credential Safety is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Final Round AI 50, Interview Sidekick 28 — and at a 20% weight it carries 65% of the weighted advantage Final Round AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Final Round AI
A macOS and Windows desktop app that listens to a job seeker's live interview on Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, HackerRank or a phone screen and streams AI-written answers into a private overlay hidden from screen sharing, alongside practice interviews and automatic post-session debriefs.
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
Final Round AI and Interview Sidekick are both filed under Live interview assistance. They also share 1 secondary category: Career coaching.
| Record | Final Round AI | Interview Sidekick |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Final Round AI 50 · Interview Sidekick 28
4.4 weighted points to Final Round AI
10% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Final Round AI 35 · Interview Sidekick 48
1.3 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Final Round AI 22 · Interview Sidekick 18
0.8 weighted points to Final Round AI
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Final Round AI 58 · Interview Sidekick 48
0.8 weighted points to Final Round AI
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Final Round AI 45 · Interview Sidekick 42
0.4 weighted points to Final Round AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Final Round AI 28 · Interview Sidekick 25
0.4 weighted points to Final Round AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Final Round AI minus Interview Sidekick.
| Category | Weight | Final Round AI | Interview Sidekick | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 22 | 18 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 50 | 28 | +22 | +4.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 20 | 20 | - | - |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 35 | 48 | -13 | -1.3 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 30 (F) | +6 | +5.5 |
§ 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 | Final Round AI | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 4 | 1 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Final Round AI has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 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 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Final Round AI, across 4 distinct source domains, and 34 for Interview Sidekick, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Final Round AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Interview Sidekick last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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