§ The result
3 points separate Sensei AI and Interview Sidekick.
Within the Live interview cohort, Sensei AI edges Interview Sidekick by 3 points under rubric js-v1.0, 33 to 30. Sensei AI leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Data & Credential Safety, while Interview Sidekick leads 3, including Pricing & Cancellation Fairness. Data & Credential Safety is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Interview Sidekick 28, Sensei AI 42 — and at a 20% weight it carries 58% of the weighted advantage Sensei AI holds across the 4 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
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
Interview Sidekick and Sensei AI are both filed under Live interview assistance. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Interview Sidekick | Sensei 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 · 40% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Interview Sidekick 28 · Sensei AI 42
2.8 weighted points to Sensei AI
10% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Interview Sidekick 48 · Sensei AI 38
1.0 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Interview Sidekick 42 · Sensei AI 48
0.9 weighted points to Sensei AI
8% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Interview Sidekick 48 · Sensei AI 38
0.8 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Interview Sidekick 20 · Sensei AI 25
0.8 weighted points to Sensei AI
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Interview Sidekick 18 · Sensei AI 20
0.4 weighted points to Sensei AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Interview Sidekick 25 · Sensei AI 22
0.4 weighted points to Interview Sidekick
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.0 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 -2.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Interview Sidekick minus Sensei AI.
| Category | Weight | Interview Sidekick | Sensei AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 18 | 20 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -2.8 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 42 | 48 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 25 | 22 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.0 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 33 (F) | -3 | -2.7 |
§ 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 | 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% | 5 | 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% | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | 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 | 23 | 8 | 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; 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 Interview Sidekick and Sensei 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: 34 for Interview Sidekick, across 4 distinct source domains, and 31 for Sensei AI, across 8 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Interview Sidekick 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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