Side-by-side · Rubric js-v1.0
Interview Sidekick vs LockedIn AI
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.
Substantial gaps
Live interview
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.
Substantial gaps
Live interview
The result
3 points separate Interview Sidekick and LockedIn AI.
Interview Sidekick holds a 3-point edge over LockedIn AI under rubric js-v1.0, 30 to 27, with both scored in the Live interview cohort. LockedIn AI takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Data & Credential Safety among them, against 6 for Interview Sidekick, whose share includes Effectiveness Evidence. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, Data & Credential Safety, and LockedIn AI holds it (Interview Sidekick 28, LockedIn AI 48, 20% weight), worth 100% of the weighted advantage LockedIn AI builds across the 1 criterion it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Interview Sidekick6
- LockedIn AI1
- Widest raw gap
- Data & Credential Safety28 vs 48
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Data & Credential Safety20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
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.
- 1
Data & Credential Safety
20% weight37% of the movement so far
Interview Sidekick28LockedIn AI484.0 weighted points to LockedIn AI
- 2
Effectiveness Evidence
12% weight53% of the movement so far
Interview Sidekick25LockedIn AI101.8 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
- 3
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
15% weight67% of the movement so far
Interview Sidekick20LockedIn AI101.5 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
- 4
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
10% weight80% of the movement so far
Interview Sidekick48LockedIn AI331.5 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
- 5
Application Honesty
20% weight91% of the movement so far
Interview Sidekick18LockedIn AI121.2 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
- 6
Support & Accountability
8% weight97% of the movement so far
Interview Sidekick48LockedIn AI400.6 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
- 7
User Control & Transparency
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Interview Sidekick42LockedIn AI400.3 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, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| 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% | 30F | 27F | +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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