§ The result
VisualCV leads LockedIn AI on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 36 points between VisualCV (Resume AI) and LockedIn AI (Live interview): 63 (D) for VisualCV, 27 (F) for LockedIn AI. VisualCV 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, VisualCV 74) and Application Honesty at 20% (LockedIn AI 12, VisualCV 62), the second being 28% of the weighted advantage VisualCV 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
VisualCV
VisualCV is an online resume and CV builder that uses GPT-based AI to draft and rewrite resume summaries and work-experience bullets against a target job title or job description, alongside 30+ ATS-oriented templates, a cover letter builder, optional hosted public resume pages, and view/download analytics.
§ The record
LockedIn AI is filed under Live interview assistance, VisualCV under Resume & profile AI. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | LockedIn AI | VisualCV |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2024 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
LockedIn AI 12 · VisualCV 62
10.0 weighted points to VisualCV
15% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
LockedIn AI 10 · VisualCV 74
9.6 weighted points to VisualCV
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
LockedIn AI 40 · VisualCV 72
4.8 weighted points to VisualCV
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
LockedIn AI 10 · VisualCV 42
3.8 weighted points to VisualCV
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
LockedIn AI 48 · VisualCV 66
3.6 weighted points to VisualCV
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
LockedIn AI 40 · VisualCV 76
2.9 weighted points to VisualCV
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
LockedIn AI 33 · VisualCV 44
1.1 weighted points to VisualCV
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -35.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 35.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -36 beside that -35.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LockedIn AI minus VisualCV.
| Category | Weight | LockedIn AI | VisualCV | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 12 | 62 | -50 | -10.0 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 48 | 66 | -18 | -3.6 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 40 | 72 | -32 | -4.8 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 10 | 74 | -64 | -9.6 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 10 | 42 | -32 | -3.8 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 33 | 44 | -11 | -1.1 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 40 | 76 | -36 | -2.9 |
| Total | 100% | 27 (F) | 63 (D) | -36 | -35.8 |
§ 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 | VisualCV | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 3 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
LockedIn AI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; VisualCV has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 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 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for LockedIn AI, across 3 distinct source domains, and 37 for VisualCV, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- LockedIn AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- VisualCV last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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