§ The result
Teal leads Careerflow by 5 points.
Teal scores 65 and Careerflow 60 under rubric js-v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Tracker and Career coaching cohorts. Teal leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Application Honesty, while Careerflow leads 1, including Data & Credential Safety. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: User Control & Transparency (Careerflow 66, Teal 78) and Application Honesty at 20% (Careerflow 50, Teal 60), the second being 35% of the weighted advantage Teal holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Careerflow
An AI "career copilot" for job seekers that builds and ATS-optimizes resumes, optimizes LinkedIn profiles, writes cover letters, tracks applications with browser-extension autofill across 45+ ATS platforms, and runs AI mock interviews.
Vendor profile
Teal
Teal is a freemium platform for job seekers offering an AI resume builder, a job-application tracker/CRM, and resume-to-job-description keyword matching, plus a Chrome extension that saves postings from 40+ job boards; it does not auto-apply, so the user manually submits every application.
§ The record
Careerflow is filed under AI career coaching, Teal under Application trackers. They also share 1 secondary category: Resume AI.
| Record | Careerflow | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2020 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Careerflow 50 · Teal 60
2.0 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 57% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Careerflow 66 · Teal 78
1.8 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Careerflow 73 · Teal 68
1.0 weighted points to Careerflow
10% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Careerflow 60 · Teal 66
0.6 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Careerflow 40 · Teal 44
0.5 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Careerflow 64 · Teal 70
0.5 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Careerflow 66 · Teal 68
0.3 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Careerflow minus Teal.
| Category | Weight | Careerflow | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 73 | 68 | +5 | +1.0 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 66 | 78 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 66 | 68 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 40 | 44 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.6 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 64 | 70 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 60 (D) | 65 (D) | -5 | -4.7 |
§ 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 | Careerflow | Teal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Careerflow has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Teal has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Careerflow, across 3 distinct source domains, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Careerflow last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Teal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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