§ 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. Effectiveness Evidence is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Kickresume 74, Teal 44 — and at a 12% weight it carries 71% of the weighted advantage Kickresume holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
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.
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
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.
12% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Kickresume 74 · Teal 44
3.6 weighted points to Kickresume
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Kickresume 76 · Teal 68
1.2 weighted points to Kickresume
10% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Kickresume 58 · Teal 66
0.8 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Kickresume 74 · Teal 78
0.6 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Kickresume 58 · Teal 60
0.4 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Kickresume 66 · Teal 68
0.4 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Kickresume 73 · Teal 70
0.2 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.
| 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% | 68 (D) | 65 (D) | +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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§ Where next
The full profiles
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