§ The result
2 points separate Teal and VisualCV.
Teal (Tracker) edges VisualCV (Resume AI) by 2 points under rubric js-v1.0, 65 to 63. Teal leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Pricing & Cancellation Fairness, while VisualCV leads 3, including Employer & ATS Legitimacy. Pricing & Cancellation Fairness is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Teal 66, VisualCV 44 — and at a 10% weight it carries 59% of the weighted advantage Teal holds across the 4 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
VisualCV
VisualCV is an online resume and CV builder that uses GPT-based AI to draft and rewrite resume summaries and work-experience bullets against a target job title or job description, alongside 30+ ATS-oriented templates, a cover letter builder, optional hosted public resume pages, and view/download analytics.
§ The record
Teal is filed under Application trackers, VisualCV under Resume & profile AI. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Teal | VisualCV |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2019 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
10% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Teal 66 · VisualCV 44
2.2 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Teal 78 · VisualCV 72
0.9 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Teal 68 · VisualCV 74
0.9 weighted points to VisualCV
8% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Teal 70 · VisualCV 76
0.5 weighted points to VisualCV
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Teal 60 · VisualCV 62
0.4 weighted points to VisualCV
20% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Teal 68 · VisualCV 66
0.4 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Teal 44 · VisualCV 42
0.2 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Teal minus VisualCV.
| Category | Weight | Teal | VisualCV | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 68 | 66 | +2 | +0.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 78 | 72 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 68 | 74 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 44 | 42 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 66 | 44 | +22 | +2.2 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 70 | 76 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 65 (D) | 63 (D) | +2 | +2.0 |
§ 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 | Teal | VisualCV | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 34 | 3 | 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; VisualCV has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 3 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 VisualCV, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Teal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- VisualCV last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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