§ The result
Teal leads Simplify (Simplify Jobs) on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Teal scores 65 (D) and Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 59 (F) under rubric js-v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the Tracker cohort. Teal leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Simplify (Simplify Jobs) is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Teal leads is Effectiveness Evidence, Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 42 to Teal 44. Teal takes the heaviest weighted swing, Data & Credential Safety at 20% (Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 53, Teal 68), which is 47% of the weighted advantage Teal holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Pricing & Cancellation Fairness, Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 48 to Teal 66.
Vendor profile
Simplify (Simplify Jobs)
Simplify is a job-seeker platform built around the Copilot browser extension that auto-fills applications across 100+ ATS portals, matches users to jobs, drafts AI resume/cover-letter and essay answers, and tracks every application in one dashboard.
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
Simplify (Simplify Jobs) and Teal are both filed under Application trackers. They also share 2 secondary categories: Job matching and Resume AI.
| Record | Simplify (Simplify Jobs) | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2020 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 53 · Teal 68
3.0 weighted points to Teal
10% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 48 · Teal 66
1.8 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 72 · Teal 78
0.9 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 65 · Teal 70
0.4 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 42 · Teal 44
0.2 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -6.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Simplify (Simplify Jobs) minus Teal.
| Category | Weight | Simplify (Simplify Jobs) | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 53 | 68 | -15 | -3.0 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 72 | 78 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 68 | 68 | - | - |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 42 | 44 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 48 | 66 | -18 | -1.8 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 65 | 70 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 65 (D) | -6 | -6.3 |
§ 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 | Simplify (Simplify Jobs) | Teal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Simplify (Simplify Jobs) has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 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 Simplify (Simplify Jobs) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Simplify (Simplify Jobs), across 3 distinct source domains, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Simplify (Simplify Jobs) 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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