§ The result
Huru leads LockedIn AI on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 37 points between Huru (Career coaching) and LockedIn AI (Live interview): 64 (D) for Huru, 27 (F) for LockedIn AI. Huru leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Application Honesty among them; LockedIn AI leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Employer & ATS Legitimacy (Huru 82, LockedIn AI 10) and Application Honesty at 20% (Huru 70, LockedIn AI 12), the second being 31% of the weighted advantage Huru holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Huru
Huru is an AI mock-interview preparation app that converts a job posting into a tailored practice interview and scores the job seeker's recorded video answers on content accuracy, speech clarity, pacing, filler words and perceived confidence.
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
Huru is filed under AI career coaching, LockedIn AI under Live interview assistance. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Huru | LockedIn AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Huru 70 · LockedIn AI 12
11.6 weighted points to Huru
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Huru 82 · LockedIn AI 10
10.8 weighted points to Huru
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Huru 70 · LockedIn AI 40
4.5 weighted points to Huru
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Huru 62 · LockedIn AI 48
2.8 weighted points to Huru
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Huru 33 · LockedIn AI 10
2.8 weighted points to Huru
10% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Huru 60 · LockedIn AI 33
2.7 weighted points to Huru
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Huru 62 · LockedIn AI 40
1.8 weighted points to Huru
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +36.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 36.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +37 beside that +36.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Huru minus LockedIn AI.
| Category | Weight | Huru | LockedIn AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 70 | 12 | +58 | +11.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +2.8 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 70 | 40 | +30 | +4.5 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 82 | 10 | +72 | +10.8 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 33 | 10 | +23 | +2.8 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 60 | 33 | +27 | +2.7 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 27 (F) | +37 | +36.9 |
§ 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 | Huru | LockedIn 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 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 26 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Huru has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 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 Huru and LockedIn AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Huru, across 6 distinct source domains, and 30 for LockedIn AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Huru last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LockedIn AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next