§ The result
Sonara leads LockedIn AI on all 7 criteria.
Sonara finishes 22 points clear of LockedIn AI under rubric js-v1.0 — 49 against 27 — across the Auto-apply and Live interview cohorts. Sonara leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Application Honesty among them; LockedIn AI leads none. Application Honesty is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (LockedIn AI 12, Sonara 50, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 35% of the weighted advantage Sonara 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
Sonara
Sonara is an AI auto-apply service (now owned by BOLD LLC) that scans job boards, matches openings to a job seeker's uploaded resume and preferences, and auto-fills and submits applications on the user's behalf from a single tracking dashboard.
§ The record
LockedIn AI is filed under Live interview assistance, Sonara under Auto-apply tools. They also share 1 secondary category: Tracker.
| Record | LockedIn AI | Sonara |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2024 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
LockedIn AI 12 · Sonara 50
7.6 weighted points to Sonara
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
LockedIn AI 10 · Sonara 48
5.7 weighted points to Sonara
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
LockedIn AI 10 · Sonara 40
3.6 weighted points to Sonara
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
LockedIn AI 40 · Sonara 52
1.8 weighted points to Sonara
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
LockedIn AI 40 · Sonara 58
1.4 weighted points to Sonara
10% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
LockedIn AI 33 · Sonara 45
1.2 weighted points to Sonara
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
LockedIn AI 48 · Sonara 50
0.4 weighted points to Sonara
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -21.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -22 beside that -21.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LockedIn AI minus Sonara.
| Category | Weight | LockedIn AI | Sonara | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 12 | 50 | -38 | -7.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 10 | 48 | -38 | -5.7 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 10 | 40 | -30 | -3.6 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 33 | 45 | -12 | -1.2 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 27 (F) | 49 (F) | -22 | -21.7 |
§ 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 | LockedIn AI | Sonara | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 3 | — |
LockedIn AI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Sonara has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 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 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for LockedIn AI, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sonara, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- LockedIn AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sonara last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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