Side-by-side · Rubric js-v1.0
LandEarly vs Teal
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.
Concerning
Auto-apply
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
3 points separate Teal and LandEarly.
Teal holds a 3-point edge over LandEarly under rubric js-v1.0, 65 to 62, across the Tracker and Auto-apply cohorts. LandEarly takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Application Honesty among them, against 5 for Teal, whose share includes Support & Accountability. Support & Accountability is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — LandEarly 44, Teal 70 — and at an 8% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Teal holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- LandEarly2
- Teal5
- Widest raw gap
- Support & Accountability44 vs 70
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Support & Accountability8% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
LandEarly is filed under Auto-apply tools, Teal under Application trackers. They also share 2 secondary categories: Job matching and Resume AI.
| Record | LandEarly | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2026 | 2019 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Support & Accountability
8% weight29% of the movement so far
LandEarly44Teal702.1 weighted points to Teal
- 2
Application Honesty
20% weight51% of the movement so far
LandEarly68Teal601.6 weighted points to LandEarly
- 3
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
15% weight68% of the movement so far
LandEarly60Teal681.2 weighted points to Teal
- 4
User Control & Transparency
15% weight80% of the movement so far
LandEarly72Teal780.9 weighted points to Teal
- 5
Effectiveness Evidence
12% weight90% of the movement so far
LandEarly50Teal440.7 weighted points to LandEarly
- 6
Data & Credential Safety
20% weight96% of the movement so far
LandEarly66Teal680.4 weighted points to Teal
- 7
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
10% weight100% of the movement so far
LandEarly63Teal660.3 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.6 — 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 -2.6.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LandEarly minus Teal, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | LandEarly | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 66 | 68 | -2 | -0.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 72 | 78 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 60 | 68 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 50 | 44 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 63 | 66 | -3 | -0.3 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 44 | 70 | -26 | -2.1 |
| Total | 100% | 62D | 65D | -3 | -2.6 |
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 | Teal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 20 | 2 | 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; 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 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for LandEarly, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- LandEarly last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Teal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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