§ The result
3 points separate Teal and LandEarly.
Teal (Tracker) edges LandEarly (Auto-apply) by 3 points under rubric js-v1.0, 65 to 62. Teal leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Support & Accountability, while LandEarly leads 2, including Application Honesty. 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.
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
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
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.
8% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
LandEarly 44 · Teal 70
2.1 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
LandEarly 68 · Teal 60
1.6 weighted points to LandEarly
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
LandEarly 60 · Teal 68
1.2 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
LandEarly 72 · Teal 78
0.9 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
LandEarly 50 · Teal 44
0.7 weighted points to LandEarly
20% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
LandEarly 66 · Teal 68
0.4 weighted points to Teal
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
LandEarly 63 · Teal 66
0.3 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.
| 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% | 62 (D) | 65 (D) | -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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§ Where next
The full profiles
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