§ The result
Teal leads LockedIn AI on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 38 points between Teal (Tracker) and LockedIn AI (Live interview): 65 (D) for Teal, 27 (F) for LockedIn AI. Teal is ahead of LockedIn AI on all 7 criteria, every one of them by 20 raw points or more. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Employer & ATS Legitimacy (LockedIn AI 10, Teal 68) and Application Honesty at 20% (LockedIn AI 12, Teal 60), the second being 25% of the weighted advantage Teal holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
LockedIn AI
LockedIn AI is a real-time interview copilot that listens to a job seeker's live interview, coding round or online assessment and displays AI-generated answers, code and coaching on their screen, alongside free resume, cover-letter and job-tracking tools.
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
LockedIn AI is filed under Live interview assistance, Teal under Application trackers. They also share 1 secondary category: Resume AI.
| Record | LockedIn AI | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2024 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
LockedIn AI 12 · Teal 60
9.6 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
LockedIn AI 10 · Teal 68
8.7 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
LockedIn AI 40 · Teal 78
5.7 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
LockedIn AI 10 · Teal 44
4.1 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
LockedIn AI 48 · Teal 68
4.0 weighted points to Teal
10% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
LockedIn AI 33 · Teal 66
3.3 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
LockedIn AI 40 · Teal 70
2.4 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -37.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 37.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -38 beside that -37.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LockedIn AI minus Teal.
| Category | Weight | LockedIn AI | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 12 | 60 | -48 | -9.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 48 | 68 | -20 | -4.0 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 40 | 78 | -38 | -5.7 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 10 | 68 | -58 | -8.7 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 10 | 44 | -34 | -4.1 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 33 | 66 | -33 | -3.3 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -2.4 |
| Total | 100% | 27 (F) | 65 (D) | -38 | -37.8 |
§ 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 | LockedIn AI | 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% | 2 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
LockedIn AI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Teal has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LockedIn AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for LockedIn AI, across 3 distinct source domains, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- LockedIn AI 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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