§ The result
LandEarly leads Final Round AI by 26 points.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 26 points between LandEarly (Auto-apply) and Final Round AI (Live interview): 62 (D) for LandEarly, 36 (F) for Final Round AI. LandEarly leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Application Honesty, while Final Round AI leads 1, including Support & Accountability. Application Honesty is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Final Round AI 22, LandEarly 68, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage LandEarly holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Final Round AI
A macOS and Windows desktop app that listens to a job seeker's live interview on Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, HackerRank or a phone screen and streams AI-written answers into a private overlay hidden from screen sharing, alongside practice interviews and automatic post-session debriefs.
Vendor profile
LandEarly
LandEarly is an AI auto-apply platform that monitors job boards, generates role-tailored resumes and cover letters from a job seeker's real history, and submits applications through supported applicant tracking systems, with a review-before-submit step and an optional autopilot mode.
§ The record
Final Round AI is filed under Live interview assistance, LandEarly under Auto-apply tools. They also share 1 secondary category: Career coaching.
| Record | Final Round AI | LandEarly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2026 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Final Round AI 22 · LandEarly 68
9.2 weighted points to LandEarly
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Final Round AI 20 · LandEarly 60
6.0 weighted points to LandEarly
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Final Round AI 45 · LandEarly 72
4.0 weighted points to LandEarly
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Final Round AI 50 · LandEarly 66
3.2 weighted points to LandEarly
10% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Final Round AI 35 · LandEarly 63
2.8 weighted points to LandEarly
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Final Round AI 28 · LandEarly 50
2.6 weighted points to LandEarly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Final Round AI 58 · LandEarly 44
1.1 weighted points to Final Round AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -26.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 29.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -26 beside that -26.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Final Round AI minus LandEarly.
| Category | Weight | Final Round AI | LandEarly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 22 | 68 | -46 | -9.2 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 50 | 66 | -16 | -3.2 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 45 | 72 | -27 | -4.0 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 20 | 60 | -40 | -6.0 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 35 | 63 | -28 | -2.8 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 58 | 44 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 62 (D) | -26 | -26.8 |
§ 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 | Final Round AI | LandEarly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 4 | 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Final Round AI has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; LandEarly has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Final Round AI, across 4 distinct source domains, and 16 for LandEarly, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Final Round AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LandEarly last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next