Side-by-side · Rubric js-v1.0
Kickresume vs Teal
Kickresume
Kickresume is an AI resume and cover-letter builder that generates and rewrites application documents from a GPT-4.1-based writer, checks them against an ATS simulator, and hosts them as templated PDFs or personal website-CVs, leaving the job seeker to submit every application manually.
Concerning
Resume AI
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.
Concerning
Tracker
The result
Kickresume takes the total, Teal takes more of the criteria.
Kickresume (Resume AI) edges Teal (Tracker) by 3 points under rubric js-v1.0, 68 to 65. Teal leads more of the criteria than Kickresume — 4 to 3 — but Effectiveness Evidence, which Kickresume leads, carries 12% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Kickresume. One criterion, Effectiveness Evidence, is both the widest raw gap (Kickresume 74, Teal 44) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 71% of the weighted advantage Kickresume holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Kickresume3
- Teal4
- Widest raw gap
- Effectiveness Evidence74 vs 44
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Effectiveness Evidence12% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Kickresume is filed under Resume & profile AI, Teal under Application trackers. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Kickresume | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SK | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2019 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Effectiveness Evidence
12% weight50% of the movement so far
Kickresume74Teal443.6 weighted points to Kickresume
- 2
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
15% weight66% of the movement so far
Kickresume76Teal681.2 weighted points to Kickresume
- 3
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
10% weight77% of the movement so far
Kickresume58Teal660.8 weighted points to Teal
- 4
User Control & Transparency
15% weight86% of the movement so far
Kickresume74Teal780.6 weighted points to Teal
- 5
Application Honesty
20% weight91% of the movement so far
Kickresume58Teal600.4 weighted points to Teal
- 6
Data & Credential Safety
20% weight97% of the movement so far
Kickresume66Teal680.4 weighted points to Teal
- 7
Support & Accountability
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Kickresume73Teal700.2 weighted points to Kickresume
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Kickresume minus Teal, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Kickresume | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 66 | 68 | -2 | -0.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 74 | 78 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 76 | 68 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 74 | 44 | +30 | +3.6 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -0.8 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 73 | 70 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 68D | 65D | +3 | +2.8 |
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 | Kickresume | 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% | 3 | 1 | 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 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 4 | 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 domain | 3 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Kickresume has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 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 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Kickresume, across 3 distinct source domains, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Kickresume last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Teal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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