§ The result
Kickresume leads LockedIn AI on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 41 points between Kickresume (Resume AI) and LockedIn AI (Live interview): 68 (D) for Kickresume, 27 (F) for LockedIn AI. Kickresume leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Employer & ATS Legitimacy among them; LockedIn AI leads none. Employer & ATS Legitimacy is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Kickresume 76, LockedIn AI 10, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 24% of the weighted advantage Kickresume holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Kickresume
Kickresume is an AI resume and cover-letter builder that generates and rewrites application documents from a GPT-4.1-based writer, checks them against an ATS simulator, and hosts them as templated PDFs or personal website-CVs, leaving the job seeker to submit every application manually.
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
Kickresume is filed under Resume & profile AI, LockedIn AI under Live interview assistance. They also share 1 secondary category: Tracker.
| Record | Kickresume | LockedIn AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | SK | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Kickresume 76 · LockedIn AI 10
9.9 weighted points to Kickresume
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Kickresume 58 · LockedIn AI 12
9.2 weighted points to Kickresume
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Kickresume 74 · LockedIn AI 10
7.7 weighted points to Kickresume
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Kickresume 74 · LockedIn AI 40
5.1 weighted points to Kickresume
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Kickresume 66 · LockedIn AI 48
3.6 weighted points to Kickresume
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Kickresume 73 · LockedIn AI 40
2.6 weighted points to Kickresume
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Kickresume 58 · LockedIn AI 33
2.5 weighted points to Kickresume
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +40.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 40.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +41 beside that +40.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Kickresume minus LockedIn AI.
| Category | Weight | Kickresume | LockedIn AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 58 | 12 | +46 | +9.2 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 66 | 48 | +18 | +3.6 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 74 | 40 | +34 | +5.1 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 76 | 10 | +66 | +9.9 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 74 | 10 | +64 | +7.7 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 58 | 33 | +25 | +2.5 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 73 | 40 | +33 | +2.6 |
| Total | 100% | 68 (D) | 27 (F) | +41 | +40.6 |
§ 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 | Kickresume | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 3 | 1 | 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 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 4 | 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 domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Kickresume has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 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 LockedIn AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Kickresume, across 3 distinct source domains, and 30 for LockedIn AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Kickresume last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LockedIn AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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