§ The result
2 points separate LandEarly and Resume Worded.
LandEarly (Auto-apply) edges Resume Worded (Resume AI) by 2 points under rubric js-v1.0, 62 to 60. LandEarly leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Pricing & Cancellation Fairness, while Resume Worded leads 2, including Employer & ATS Legitimacy, and 1 is level. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Resume Worded takes Employer & ATS Legitimacy at 15%, LandEarly 60 to Resume Worded 75, 56% of the weighted advantage Resume Worded holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Support & Accountability, LandEarly 44 to Resume Worded 66.
Vendor profile
LandEarly
LandEarly is an AI auto-apply platform that monitors job boards, generates role-tailored resumes and cover letters from a job seeker's real history, and submits applications through supported applicant tracking systems, with a review-before-submit step and an optional autopilot mode.
Vendor profile
Resume Worded
Resume Worded scores an uploaded resume or LinkedIn profile PDF out of 100 against its own recruiter-derived checklist and returns line-by-line feedback, AI rewrite suggestions and job-description keyword matching, but does not search for or submit job applications.
§ The record
LandEarly is filed under Auto-apply tools, Resume Worded under Resume & profile AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Career coaching.
| Record | LandEarly | Resume Worded |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2026 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
LandEarly 60 · Resume Worded 75
2.3 weighted points to Resume Worded
10% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
LandEarly 63 · Resume Worded 42
2.1 weighted points to LandEarly
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
LandEarly 68 · Resume Worded 58
2.0 weighted points to LandEarly
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
LandEarly 50 · Resume Worded 34
1.9 weighted points to LandEarly
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
LandEarly 44 · Resume Worded 66
1.8 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
LandEarly 66 · Resume Worded 64
0.4 weighted points to LandEarly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +2.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LandEarly minus Resume Worded.
| Category | Weight | LandEarly | Resume Worded | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 66 | 64 | +2 | +0.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 72 | 72 | - | - |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 60 | 75 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 50 | 34 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 63 | 42 | +21 | +2.1 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 44 | 66 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 60 (D) | +2 | +2.4 |
§ 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 | LandEarly | Resume Worded | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
LandEarly has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Resume Worded has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for LandEarly, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Resume Worded, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- LandEarly last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Resume Worded last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next