Muse independent test — Burlington Stores, “Allison” (Phase 4)
- Company / site: Burlington Stores — careers.burlington.com failed DNS; official site https://www.burlington.com/careers, then https://burlingtonstores.jobs/jobs/ (4,356 jobs). Widget auto-opened on the jobs list and was present on the posting page
- Date / time: Friday, November 6, 2026, approx. 2:49–2:53 p.m. EST (America/Toronto), runtime-measured window 2:12–3:20 p.m.
- Assistant: Allison, Allison AI Recruiting Assistant
- Vendor attribution (exact): “Powered by Paradox” — vendor CONFIRMED
- Role selected: Retail Sales Associate — Full-Time, Tyler, TX, 8958 S Broadway Ave, 75703, $11/hr, Posting P1-1068167-1, Regular Full-Time
- Job posting used: https://burlingtonstores.jobs/tyler-tx/retail-sales-associate-full-time/2079A570FDB94A8FA58CCB5C061921BE/job/
- Personal information entered: None demanded; none entered. No application submitted, no account created.
- Evidence type: Live browser session; transcript captured in summary form with verbatim fragments.
Transcript (as captured)
A0, A and B were deflected to the career page / job description. A additionally — and falsely, for a Tyler, TX posting — said “We don’t currently have any Retail Sales Associate positions open in Toronto, ON, CA” (the session’s IP geolocation substituted for the posting’s location; compare Gap in this phase and Sodexo/Johnson Controls in Phase 1). C gave generic Burlington values; D repeated them. E said to browse positions and “I can help you apply!”. At F, Allison claimed: “I’m happy to help. Can I answer any questions about Burlington for you?” G was deflected.
Scores
A0 FAIL · A FAIL · B FAIL · C PARTIAL · D FAIL · E FAIL · F PARTIAL (claim only — see scorer’s note) · G FAIL — 0 PASS / 2 PARTIAL / 6 FAIL
Session findings (observed, not inferred)
- Personal information demanded: None.
- Role content delivered: None; generic values only, plus a false location-substituted denial at A.
- Conventional form route: None offered.
- Errors / blocks: careers.burlington.com DNS failure; the official path worked.
Scorer’s note (ledger normalization): the live tester scored this session’s F answer “PASS (claim only)”; under the investigation’s standing convention from Phase 1, a capability claim contradicted by the same session’s A0–D performance is scored PARTIAL. The CSV and tallies use PARTIAL; the tester’s original label is preserved in this note.
