§ The result
Simplify (Simplify Jobs) leads LockedIn AI on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 32 points between Simplify (Simplify Jobs) (Tracker) and LockedIn AI (Live interview): 59 for Simplify (Simplify Jobs), 27 for LockedIn AI. Simplify (Simplify Jobs) leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Application Honesty among them; LockedIn AI leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Employer & ATS Legitimacy (LockedIn AI 10, Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 68) and Application Honesty at 20% (LockedIn AI 12, Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 60), the second being 31% of the weighted advantage Simplify (Simplify Jobs) holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Simplify (Simplify Jobs)
Simplify is a job-seeker platform built around the Copilot browser extension that auto-fills applications across 100+ ATS portals, matches users to jobs, drafts AI resume/cover-letter and essay answers, and tracks every application in one dashboard.
§ The record
LockedIn AI is filed under Live interview assistance, Simplify (Simplify Jobs) under Application trackers. They also share 1 secondary category: Resume AI.
| Record | LockedIn AI | Simplify (Simplify Jobs) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2024 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
LockedIn AI 12 · Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 60
9.6 weighted points to Simplify (Simplify Jobs)
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
LockedIn AI 10 · Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 68
8.7 weighted points to Simplify (Simplify Jobs)
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
LockedIn AI 40 · Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 72
4.8 weighted points to Simplify (Simplify Jobs)
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
LockedIn AI 10 · Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 42
3.8 weighted points to Simplify (Simplify Jobs)
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
LockedIn AI 40 · Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 65
2.0 weighted points to Simplify (Simplify Jobs)
10% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
LockedIn AI 33 · Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 48
1.5 weighted points to Simplify (Simplify Jobs)
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
LockedIn AI 48 · Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 53
1.0 weighted points to Simplify (Simplify Jobs)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -31.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 31.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -32 beside that -31.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LockedIn AI minus Simplify (Simplify Jobs).
| Category | Weight | LockedIn AI | Simplify (Simplify Jobs) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 12 | 60 | -48 | -9.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 48 | 53 | -5 | -1.0 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 40 | 72 | -32 | -4.8 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 10 | 68 | -58 | -8.7 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 10 | 42 | -32 | -3.8 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 33 | 48 | -15 | -1.5 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 40 | 65 | -25 | -2.0 |
| Total | 100% | 27 (F) | 59 (F) | -32 | -31.4 |
§ 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 | LockedIn AI | Simplify (Simplify Jobs) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
LockedIn AI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Simplify (Simplify Jobs) has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LockedIn AI and Simplify (Simplify Jobs) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for LockedIn AI, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Simplify (Simplify Jobs), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- LockedIn AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Simplify (Simplify Jobs) last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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