§ The result
Resume Worded leads Final Round AI on all 7 criteria.
Resume Worded finishes 24 points clear of Final Round AI under rubric js-v1.0 — 60 (D) against 36 (F) — across the Resume AI and Live interview cohorts. Resume Worded leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Employer & ATS Legitimacy among them; Final Round AI leads none. Employer & ATS Legitimacy is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Final Round AI 20, Resume Worded 75, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage Resume Worded holds across the 7 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
Resume Worded
Resume Worded scores an uploaded resume or LinkedIn profile PDF out of 100 against its own recruiter-derived checklist and returns line-by-line feedback, AI rewrite suggestions and job-description keyword matching, but does not search for or submit job applications.
§ The record
Final Round AI is filed under Live interview assistance, Resume Worded under Resume & profile AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Career coaching.
| Record | Final Round AI | Resume Worded |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Final Round AI 20 · Resume Worded 75
8.3 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Final Round AI 22 · Resume Worded 58
7.2 weighted points to Resume Worded
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Final Round AI 45 · Resume Worded 72
4.0 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Final Round AI 50 · Resume Worded 64
2.8 weighted points to Resume Worded
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Final Round AI 28 · Resume Worded 34
0.7 weighted points to Resume Worded
10% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Final Round AI 35 · Resume Worded 42
0.7 weighted points to Resume Worded
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Final Round AI 58 · Resume Worded 66
0.6 weighted points to Resume Worded
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -24.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -24 beside that -24.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Final Round AI minus Resume Worded.
| Category | Weight | Final Round AI | Resume Worded | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 22 | 58 | -36 | -7.2 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 50 | 64 | -14 | -2.8 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 45 | 72 | -27 | -4.0 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 20 | 75 | -55 | -8.3 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 28 | 34 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 35 | 42 | -7 | -0.7 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 60 (D) | -24 | -24.4 |
§ 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 | Resume Worded | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | 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; Resume Worded has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Final Round AI, across 4 distinct source domains, and 33 for Resume Worded, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Final Round AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Resume Worded last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next