§ The result
Teal leads Resume Worded by 5 points.
Teal scores 65 and Resume Worded 60 under rubric js-v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Tracker and Resume AI cohorts. Teal leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Pricing & Cancellation Fairness, while Resume Worded leads 1, including Employer & ATS Legitimacy. Pricing & Cancellation Fairness is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Resume Worded 42, Teal 66 — and at a 10% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Teal holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
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
Resume Worded is filed under Resume & profile AI, Teal under Application trackers. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Resume Worded | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
10% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Resume Worded 42 · Teal 66
2.4 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Resume Worded 34 · Teal 44
1.2 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Resume Worded 75 · Teal 68
1.1 weighted points to Resume Worded
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Resume Worded 72 · Teal 78
0.9 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Resume Worded 64 · Teal 68
0.8 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Resume Worded 58 · Teal 60
0.4 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Resume Worded 66 · Teal 70
0.3 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Resume Worded minus Teal.
| Category | Weight | Resume Worded | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 64 | 68 | -4 | -0.8 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 72 | 78 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 75 | 68 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 34 | 44 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 42 | 66 | -24 | -2.4 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 66 | 70 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 60 (D) | 65 (D) | -5 | -5.0 |
§ 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 | Resume Worded | 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% | 4 | 0 | 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% | 6 | 0 | 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% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Resume Worded has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Resume Worded, across 6 distinct source domains, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Resume Worded 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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