§ The result
Teal leads Interview Sidekick on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 35 points between Teal (Tracker) and Interview Sidekick (Live interview): 65 (D) for Teal, 30 (F) for Interview Sidekick. Teal leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Application Honesty among them; Interview Sidekick leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Employer & ATS Legitimacy (Interview Sidekick 20, Teal 68) and Application Honesty at 20% (Interview Sidekick 18, Teal 60), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage Teal holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Interview Sidekick
Interview Sidekick is a desktop AI interview assistant that offers mock-interview practice and a 10,000+ question bank before interviews, and during live interviews transcribes the interviewer's questions and feeds the candidate suggested answers through an on-screen overlay it markets as invisible to screen sharing.
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
Interview Sidekick is filed under Live interview assistance, Teal under Application trackers. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Interview Sidekick | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2024 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Interview Sidekick 18 · Teal 60
8.4 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Interview Sidekick 28 · Teal 68
8.0 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Interview Sidekick 20 · Teal 68
7.2 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Interview Sidekick 42 · Teal 78
5.4 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Interview Sidekick 25 · Teal 44
2.3 weighted points to Teal
10% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Interview Sidekick 48 · Teal 66
1.8 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Interview Sidekick 48 · Teal 70
1.8 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -34.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 34.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -35 beside that -34.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Interview Sidekick minus Teal.
| Category | Weight | Interview Sidekick | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 18 | 60 | -42 | -8.4 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 28 | 68 | -40 | -8.0 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 42 | 78 | -36 | -5.4 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 20 | 68 | -48 | -7.2 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 25 | 44 | -19 | -2.3 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 48 | 66 | -18 | -1.8 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 48 | 70 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 65 (D) | -35 | -34.8 |
§ 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 | Interview Sidekick | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 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% | 5 | 1 | 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% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Interview Sidekick has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 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 Interview Sidekick sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Interview Sidekick, across 4 distinct source domains, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Interview Sidekick last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Teal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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