§ The result
3 points separate Interview Sidekick and LockedIn AI.
Within the Live interview cohort, Interview Sidekick edges LockedIn AI by 3 points under rubric js-v1.0, 30 to 27. Interview Sidekick leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Effectiveness Evidence, while LockedIn AI leads 1, including Data & Credential Safety. Data & Credential Safety is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to LockedIn AI — Interview Sidekick 28, LockedIn AI 48, on a 20% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage LockedIn AI holds across the 1 criterion on that side of the table.
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.
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
Interview Sidekick and LockedIn AI are both filed under Live interview assistance. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Interview Sidekick | LockedIn AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2024 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Interview Sidekick 28 · LockedIn AI 48
4.0 weighted points to LockedIn AI
12% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Interview Sidekick 25 · LockedIn AI 10
1.8 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Interview Sidekick 20 · LockedIn AI 10
1.5 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
10% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Interview Sidekick 48 · LockedIn AI 33
1.5 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Interview Sidekick 18 · LockedIn AI 12
1.2 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Interview Sidekick 48 · LockedIn AI 40
0.6 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Interview Sidekick 42 · LockedIn AI 40
0.3 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 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 +2.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Interview Sidekick minus LockedIn AI.
| Category | Weight | Interview Sidekick | LockedIn AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 18 | 12 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 28 | 48 | -20 | -4.0 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 20 | 10 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 25 | 10 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 48 | 33 | +15 | +1.5 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 27 (F) | +3 | +2.9 |
§ 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 | Interview Sidekick | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 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% | 5 | 1 | 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% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 26 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Interview Sidekick has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 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 Interview Sidekick and LockedIn 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: 34 for Interview Sidekick, across 4 distinct source domains, and 30 for LockedIn AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Interview Sidekick last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LockedIn AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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