§ The result
Teal leads Verve AI on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 36 points between Teal (Tracker) and Verve AI (Live interview): 65 (D) for Teal, 29 (F) for Verve AI. Teal leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, User Control & Transparency among them; Verve AI leads none. User Control & Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Teal 78, Verve AI 18, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 25% of the weighted advantage Teal holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Verve AI
Verve AI is a desktop and browser "interview copilot" that transcribes a live interview in real time and feeds the candidate suggested answers on a screen hidden from the interviewer, bundled with mock interviews, an AI resume and cover-letter builder, and an agent that auto-applies to jobs across 30+ job boards.
§ The record
Teal is filed under Application trackers, Verve AI under Live interview assistance. They also share 2 secondary categories: Resume AI and Job matching.
| Record | Teal | Verve AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 25% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Teal 78 · Verve AI 18
9.0 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Teal 68 · Verve AI 15
7.9 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Teal 68 · Verve AI 38
6.0 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Teal 60 · Verve AI 32
5.6 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Teal 44 · Verve AI 15
3.5 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Teal 70 · Verve AI 44
2.1 weighted points to Teal
10% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Teal 66 · Verve AI 48
1.8 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +35.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 35.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +36 beside that +35.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Teal minus Verve AI.
| Category | Weight | Teal | Verve AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 60 | 32 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 68 | 38 | +30 | +6.0 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 78 | 18 | +60 | +9.0 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 68 | 15 | +53 | +7.9 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 44 | 15 | +29 | +3.5 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 66 | 48 | +18 | +1.8 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 70 | 44 | +26 | +2.1 |
| Total | 100% | 65 (D) | 29 (F) | +36 | +35.9 |
§ 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 | Teal | Verve AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Teal has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Verve AI has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains, and 37 for Verve AI, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Teal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Verve AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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