§ The result
3 points separate Final Round AI and Sensei AI.
Within the Live interview cohort, Final Round AI edges Sensei AI by 3 points under rubric js-v1.0, 36 to 33. Final Round AI leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Data & Credential Safety, while Sensei AI leads 3, including Employer & ATS Legitimacy. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Support & Accountability (Final Round AI 58, Sensei AI 38) and Data & Credential Safety at 20% (Final Round AI 50, Sensei AI 42), the second being 37% of the weighted advantage Final Round AI holds across the 4 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
Sensei AI
Sensei AI is a real-time interview copilot that listens to a candidate's live job interview, transcribes the interviewer's questions and displays structured, resume-tailored answers on screen in about a second, with an added coding copilot and AI resume builder.
§ The record
Final Round AI and Sensei AI are both filed under Live interview assistance. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Final Round AI | Sensei AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Final Round AI 50 · Sensei AI 42
1.6 weighted points to Final Round AI
8% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Final Round AI 58 · Sensei AI 38
1.6 weighted points to Final Round AI
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Final Round AI 20 · Sensei AI 25
0.8 weighted points to Sensei AI
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Final Round AI 28 · Sensei AI 22
0.7 weighted points to Final Round AI
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Final Round AI 45 · Sensei AI 48
0.4 weighted points to Sensei AI
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Final Round AI 22 · Sensei AI 20
0.4 weighted points to Final Round AI
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Final Round AI 35 · Sensei AI 38
0.3 weighted points to Sensei AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Final Round AI minus Sensei AI.
| Category | Weight | Final Round AI | Sensei AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 22 | 20 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.6 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 45 | 48 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 28 | 22 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.3 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 58 | 38 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 33 (F) | +3 | +2.8 |
§ 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 | Sensei AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 8 | 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; Sensei AI has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sensei AI 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: 33 for Final Round AI, across 4 distinct source domains, and 31 for Sensei AI, across 8 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Final Round AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sensei AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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