§ The result
1 point separates Teal and Huru.
Teal (Tracker) edges Huru (Career coaching) by 1 point under rubric js-v1.0, 65 to 64. Teal leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Effectiveness Evidence, while Huru leads 2, including Employer & ATS Legitimacy. Employer & ATS Legitimacy is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Huru — Huru 82, Teal 68, on a 15% weight — which is 51% of the weighted advantage Huru holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Huru
Huru is an AI mock-interview preparation app that converts a job posting into a tailored practice interview and scores the job seeker's recorded video answers on content accuracy, speech clarity, pacing, filler words and perceived confidence.
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
Huru is filed under AI career coaching, Teal under Application trackers. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Huru | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Huru 82 · Teal 68
2.1 weighted points to Huru
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Huru 70 · Teal 60
2.0 weighted points to Huru
12% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Huru 33 · Teal 44
1.3 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Huru 62 · Teal 68
1.2 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Huru 70 · Teal 78
1.2 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Huru 62 · Teal 70
0.6 weighted points to Teal
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Huru 60 · Teal 66
0.6 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Huru minus Teal.
| Category | Weight | Huru | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 70 | 60 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 62 | 68 | -6 | -1.2 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 70 | 78 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 82 | 68 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 33 | 44 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.6 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 62 | 70 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 65 (D) | -1 | -0.9 |
§ 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 | Huru | 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 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | — | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Huru has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 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; some documentation or audit rows for Huru sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Huru, across 6 distinct source domains, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Huru 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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