§ The result
Teal leads Final Round AI on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 29 points between Teal (Tracker) and Final Round AI (Live interview): 65 (D) for Teal, 36 (F) for Final Round AI. Teal leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Application Honesty among them; Final Round AI leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Employer & ATS Legitimacy (Final Round AI 20, Teal 68) and Application Honesty at 20% (Final Round AI 22, Teal 60), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage Teal 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
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
Final Round AI is filed under Live interview assistance, Teal under Application trackers. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Final Round AI | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Final Round AI 22 · Teal 60
7.6 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Final Round AI 20 · Teal 68
7.2 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Final Round AI 45 · Teal 78
5.0 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Final Round AI 50 · Teal 68
3.6 weighted points to Teal
10% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Final Round AI 35 · Teal 66
3.1 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Final Round AI 28 · Teal 44
1.9 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Final Round AI 58 · Teal 70
1.0 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -29.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 29.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -29 beside that -29.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Final Round AI minus Teal.
| Category | Weight | Final Round AI | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 22 | 60 | -38 | -7.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 50 | 68 | -18 | -3.6 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 45 | 78 | -33 | -5.0 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 20 | 68 | -48 | -7.2 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 28 | 44 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 35 | 66 | -31 | -3.1 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 65 (D) | -29 | -29.3 |
§ 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 | Teal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 20 | 2 | 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; 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 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Final Round AI, across 4 distinct source domains, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Final Round AI last reviewed
- September 4, 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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