§ The result
Resume Worded leads Interview Sidekick by 30 points.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 30 points between Resume Worded (Resume AI) and Interview Sidekick (Live interview): 60 (D) for Resume Worded, 30 (F) for Interview Sidekick. Resume Worded leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Employer & ATS Legitimacy, while Interview Sidekick leads 1, including Pricing & Cancellation Fairness. Employer & ATS Legitimacy is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Interview Sidekick 20, Resume Worded 75, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 27% of the weighted advantage Resume Worded holds across the 6 criteria 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
Resume Worded
Resume Worded scores an uploaded resume or LinkedIn profile PDF out of 100 against its own recruiter-derived checklist and returns line-by-line feedback, AI rewrite suggestions and job-description keyword matching, but does not search for or submit job applications.
§ The record
Interview Sidekick is filed under Live interview assistance, Resume Worded under Resume & profile AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Career coaching.
| Record | Interview Sidekick | Resume Worded |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2024 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Interview Sidekick 20 · Resume Worded 75
8.3 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Interview Sidekick 18 · Resume Worded 58
8.0 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Interview Sidekick 28 · Resume Worded 64
7.2 weighted points to Resume Worded
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Interview Sidekick 42 · Resume Worded 72
4.5 weighted points to Resume Worded
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Interview Sidekick 48 · Resume Worded 66
1.4 weighted points to Resume Worded
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Interview Sidekick 25 · Resume Worded 34
1.1 weighted points to Resume Worded
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Interview Sidekick 48 · Resume Worded 42
0.6 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -29.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 31.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -30 beside that -29.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Interview Sidekick minus Resume Worded.
| Category | Weight | Interview Sidekick | Resume Worded | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 18 | 58 | -40 | -8.0 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 28 | 64 | -36 | -7.2 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 42 | 72 | -30 | -4.5 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 20 | 75 | -55 | -8.3 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 25 | 34 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +0.6 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 48 | 66 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 60 (D) | -30 | -29.9 |
§ 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 | Resume Worded | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 0 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Interview Sidekick has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Resume Worded has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 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: 34 for Interview Sidekick, across 4 distinct source domains, and 33 for Resume Worded, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Interview Sidekick last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Resume Worded last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next