LockedIn AI
HireAIScore rates LockedIn AI 27 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric js-v1.0, last reviewed September 4, 2026. LockedIn AI ranks 6 of 6 vendors rated in Live interview assistance, against a category average of 33. That score is drawn from 30 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for LockedIn AI — 26 with a cited source, 5 recording that nothing was located.
Score breakdown
LockedIn AI, criterion by criterion
Each rubric criterion is scored out of 100 on the cited evidence, then weighted into the total.
Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.
Application Honesty
Weight 20% · category avg 24
12
+2.4
Data & Credential Safety
Weight 20% · category avg 44
48
+9.6
User Control & Transparency
Weight 15% · category avg 41
40
+6.0
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Weight 15% · category avg 21
10
+1.5
Effectiveness Evidence
Weight 12% · category avg 22
10
+1.2
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Weight 10% · category avg 38
33
+3.3
Support & Accountability
Weight 8% · category avg 45
40
+3.2
Total weighted score
27.2(rounded to 27 for display)
Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 6 Live interview assistance vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.
Strongest criterion
Data & Credential Safety
48raw / 100
Contributes 9.6 to the total. 48 against a 44 category average.
Weakest criterion
Effectiveness Evidence
10raw / 100
Contributes 1.2 to the total. 10 against a 22 category average.
Cited evidence
The evidence behind the score
Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence. Open a criterion to see what was found, when, and where.
Download diligence recordEvidence ledger
- Items
- 30
- Documentation
- 21
- Public statement
- 3
- Product feature
- 1
- Absence
- 5
- With a source URL
- 26 of 30
- Source hostnames
- 3
- Fewest items
- 3
- User Control & Transparency
These figures measure how thoroughly LockedIn AI was reviewed, not how LockedIn AI performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Application Honesty
4 items12
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The homepage headline is "Your Secret Weapon for Job Interviews" and describes an assistant that "listens to your interview, analyzes questions, and provides real-time answers, code solutions, and live coaching automatically" during live interviews.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The LockedIn Duo page markets a human helper who "sees and hears your interview live, provides instant guidance, all while staying completely outside the call," sending "text, voice-to-text coaching, and code blocks instantly," with no instruction anywhere to disclose this to the employer.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The Online Assessment page advertises "Over 513,062 assessments aced" and states the helper "delivers the best possible answer right inside the test environment" for "AWS certification? School quizzes? Online exams?" — extending the tool beyond interviews into certification and academic exam cheating.
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The Ethics page offers only an unverifiable claim of "sophisticated algorithms capable of detecting and preventing the unethical use of our technology" and contains no no-fabrication rule, no honesty guardrail and no requirement to disclose AI assistance; the Terms of Service likewise impose no restriction on live-interview or assessment use.
Data & Credential Safety
4 items48
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The policy states that "audio captured during your sessions — your microphone audio and, on desktop, any meeting or system audio you choose to share — is transcribed to text in real time," alongside photos of on-screen questions and resumes converted into vector embeddings.
- Product featureCaptured Sep 4, 2026
Subprocessors are named explicitly — Google Analytics, Stripe, GitHub, AssemblyAI (speech-to-text), Microsoft Azure OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Pinecone — with the statement "We do not sell your personal information" and deletion of uploaded documents and embeddings on account deletion, plus auto-deletion after a year of inactivity.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The Terms shift all recording liability to the job seeker, requiring them to "Obtain informed, explicit consent from all individuals being recorded" and comply with "privacy, wiretap, surveillance, or consent laws," while stating LockedIn AI "does not verify whether appropriate consent has been obtained."
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 4, 2026
Security is described only as "commercially acceptable means" in the privacy policy and "strict encryption" on the safety page; searches of the site, the safety page and the web surfaced no SOC 2, ISO 27001 or any third-party audit, and no statement that user content is excluded from model training.
User Control & Transparency
3 items40
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The safety page frames user control over sharing — "If asked to share, you control what to share. You're never required to expose the assistant" — while simultaneously promising that "Nothing appears in tab bars, share strips, or window switchers during interviews screen shares."
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
Users retain meaningful control over their own data: accounts and all personal data can be deleted from profile settings and a dedicated button deletes chat history separately.
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 4, 2026
No page on the site — homepage, Ethics, Terms, LockedIn Duo or Online Assessment — asks or advises users to disclose AI assistance to an interviewer, and the marketing consistently promises the opposite.
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
4 items10
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
Stealth Mode is marketed as running "as a private on-device assistant with no visible taskbar icon, dock icon, or app switcher presence" with "no visual footprint" across major interview platforms — explicitly engineered to defeat what an employer can see during a screen share.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The assessment helper is marketed as "analyzing your browser tabs, coding environments, and interface hints" during an exam and supplying answers inside the test environment, conduct that breaches the terms of assessment platforms and certification bodies.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
Duo is sold on the claim that "From the interviewer's seat, everything appears completely standard — no visible assistance, no disruption, just a professional conversation," with the helper kept off the call and "Fully discreet."
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 4, 2026
No page warns users about detection risk, employer anti-cheating measures, rescinded offers, or the assessment-platform terms they may be breaching; the Terms of Service contains no clause restricting use in proctored or employer settings.
Effectiveness Evidence
5 items10
- Public statementCaptured Sep 4, 2026
Trustpilot displays a banner reading "This company's rating is unavailable due to a breach of our guidelines" together with "We've removed a number of fake reviews for this company," and suppresses the TrustScore across 120 reviews.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The homepage simultaneously displays "1M+" users and "4.8 · 2,739 reviews" while its own embedded JSON-LD declares an aggregateRating with reviewCount "14", and body copy elsewhere on the same page claims "Trusted by 869,852+ users."
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The pricing page headline reads "TRUSTED BY 58,000+ PROFESSIONALS" — an order of magnitude below the homepage's "1M+" and "869,852+" claims captured the same day.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The co-founder's own page gives a fourth figure, "more than 100,000 job seekers worldwide," and dates the company to "'22", conflicting with the 2024 effective date of its own Terms and Privacy Policy.
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 4, 2026
No response rate, interview rate, offer rate, salary outcome or any published study appears anywhere on the site; the only outcome language found was the unquantified "You walk in nervous and walk out hired."
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
5 items33
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The policy states "no refunds are offered once a subscription has started" and that Monthly and Quarterly subscriptions are "Non-refundable once started" with "no refunds or prorated credits"; only annual plans get a partial refund within 7 days.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The rendered pricing page displays a "Money-back guarantee" label while offering Unlimited at $54.99/month against a permanently struck-through "standard monthly price of $109.98" ("Save 50%"), and $39.99/month billed quarterly ("Save 64%") — a reference-price anchor that contradicts the refund terms it links to.
- Public statementCaptured Sep 4, 2026
Negative reviews (22% are 1-star) concentrate on billing, including "Almost impossible to cancel - the docs are out of date" (Aug 4, 2026) and a Jul 20, 2026 complaint describing "dark patterns to trap customers" via hidden cancellation controls and refused refunds.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
Apple lists materially higher in-app prices — "Unlimited - Monthly $139.99", "Unlimited - 3 Months $279.99", "Credits - Monthly $84.99" — for the same account and features sold at $54.99/month on the web.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lockedin-ai-interview-prep/id6776813183
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
Mitigating: the support centre documents a real cancellation path (profile, then Billing & Plans, then "Cancel subscription" under Manage Membership), and the refund policy preserves "any mandatory refund or withdrawal rights you may have under applicable consumer-protection law."
Support & Accountability
5 items40
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
Support is email-only at support@lockedinai.com with a stated target of "within 24-48 hours during business days (Monday-Friday)"; no phone, live chat, physical address or legal entity name is given.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The company fronts a named, biographied co-founder and CEO (Kagehiro Mitsuyami, NYU, New York NY), which is more transparency than most tools in this category provide.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The operating legal entity is identifiable only via Apple's App Store listing, which names Cyber Gravity LLC as developer with lockedinai.com as the developer website and privacy policy URL; the entity appears nowhere on lockedinai.com itself.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lockedin-ai-interview-prep/id6776813183
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 4, 2026
The Governing Law clause reads only "These terms are governed by the laws of the United States" with submission to "the courts in the United States" — naming no state or forum, which leaves users without an identifiable venue for disputes.
- Public statementCaptured Sep 4, 2026
Trustpilot's removal of fake reviews and suppression of the company's rating for a guidelines breach is a direct third-party finding against the company's public accountability.
Editorial notes
Company overview
LockedIn AI, operated by Cyber Gravity LLC of New York, sells a real-time "interview copilot" that transcribes a live interview and pushes suggested answers, STAR-formatted stories and code solutions onto the candidate's screen while the interview is in progress. It works across Zoom, Teams and Meet, adds a coding copilot with VS Code integration, an "Online Assessment AI Helper" for tests, and LockedIn Duo, which lets a human friend watch the interview from outside the call and feed the candidate text, code and voice-to-text prompts. A free tier plus free resume, cover-letter, LinkedIn and job-tracker tools sit around the paid product; the web Unlimited plan is $54.99 per month, or $39.99 per month billed quarterly, with substantially higher in-app prices on iOS. The company is founder-fronted but publishes no legal entity or address on its own site.
Regulatory exposure
The dominant risk here is misrepresentation carried entirely by the job seeker. The product's value proposition is concealment: the marketing promises "no visual footprint," that "Nothing appears in tab bars, share strips, or window switchers during interviews screen shares," and that a Duo helper is "invisible to the interviewer" with "no UI elements visible on the interviewer's end." The assessment helper goes further, advertising "Over 513,062 assessments aced" and answers delivered "right inside the test environment" for AWS certification exams and school quizzes — conduct that breaches assessment-platform and certification-body rules and can cost a candidate an offer, a credential or a degree. There is no disclosure guidance and no anti-fabrication guardrail anywhere on the site; the Ethics page offers only an unverifiable claim about algorithms that detect "unethical use." On data, the tool does not ask for job-board, email or LinkedIn passwords, which removes the worst credential risk, and the privacy policy is unusually specific about subprocessors (AssemblyAI, Azure OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Pinecone) and says data is not sold. But it captures the user's microphone plus desktop system audio — meaning the interviewer's voice — along with screenshots and resumes, describes security only as "commercially acceptable means," holds no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, makes no statement that content is withheld from model training, and its Terms push all wiretap and two-party-consent liability onto the user while stating the company "does not verify whether appropriate consent has been obtained." Billing is the third risk: the pricing page shows a "Money-back guarantee" label while the Refund Policy states "no refunds are offered once a subscription has started" for monthly and quarterly plans, and Trustpilot has suppressed the company's rating outright for a guidelines breach involving fake reviews.
Path to a higher score
The gap between this product and a defensible one is structural, not cosmetic. The clearest wins are on the honesty axis: stop marketing concealment from interviewers and proctors as a feature, drop the certification-exam and school-quiz use cases entirely, and reposition the real-time layer as disclosed assistance or confine it to mock interviews and post-session review, where the coaching and transcript features already stand on their own. Publishing an explicit no-fabrication policy — the AI answers only from the user's uploaded, verified resume, and never invents experience — with a visible disclosure prompt would move application_honesty meaningfully. On data, the fastest credible steps are a written no-training commitment, concrete encryption and retention specifics with a stated deletion window rather than "as long as necessary," and a SOC 2 Type II report. On billing, reconciling the "Money-back guarantee" badge with the actual no-refund terms, dropping the permanent "Save 50%" anchor against a $109.98 price nobody pays, and honouring a genuine trial-then-refund window would address the most-repeated complaint in public reviews. Finally, naming Cyber Gravity LLC and a real address and jurisdiction on the site — the Terms currently choose only "the laws of the United States," which is not an enforceable forum — and resolving the Trustpilot fake-review finding would be the minimum for accountability. Reconciling the four contradictory user counts the company publishes about itself would be a good faith signal costing nothing.
Risk frame
What applies to live interview assistance.
The risk sits almost entirely with the job seeker. Employers state that undisclosed AI assistance during an interview can be grounds for withdrawing an application, and tools here are frequently sold on remaining invisible to the interviewer. What matters is whether the tool tells the user to disclose it, whether it captures the interviewer's audio without their knowledge, and what becomes of that recording.
Compare
LockedIn AI against its nearest-scoring peers.
The closest scores in Live interview assistance, side by side.
- Side-by-sideLockedIn AI vs Final Round AI36F
- Side-by-sideLockedIn AI vs Sensei AI33F
- Side-by-sideLockedIn AI vs Interview Sidekick30F
- Side-by-sideLockedIn AI vs Verve AI29F
Ranking
Others rated in Live interview assistance
Ranked 6 of 6 by weighted total under rubric js-v1.0. The ordering is arithmetic on the rubric and carries no view on which tool suits a given hiring process.
- #3Sensei AI33F
- #4Interview Sidekick30F
- #5Verve AI29F
- #6LockedIn AIThis profile27F
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