§ The result
Adaface leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Adaface finishes 16 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 39 against 23 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Adaface leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Adaface 50 to Mercor 42. The advantage Adaface holds is spread out: Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Adaface 52, Mercor 22, 15% weight), yet it supplies only 28% of the weighted points Adaface gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Adaface
Adaface runs chatbot-led 'conversational' skills tests for 500+ roles that score candidates automatically as pass, borderline pass or fail on benchmarked scorecards, backed by webcam, screen and IP proctoring and an AI résumé parser.
Vendor profile
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
§ The record
Adaface is filed under Assessment AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Adaface | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Adaface 52 · Mercor 22
4.5 weighted points to Adaface
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Adaface 38 · Mercor 22
3.2 weighted points to Adaface
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Adaface 22 · Mercor 10
2.2 weighted points to Adaface
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Adaface 38 · Mercor 20
2.2 weighted points to Adaface
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Adaface 30 · Mercor 20
1.5 weighted points to Adaface
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Adaface 58 · Mercor 40
1.4 weighted points to Adaface
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Adaface 50 · Mercor 42
1.0 weighted points to Adaface
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Adaface minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Adaface | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 22 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 10 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 22 | +30 | +4.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 23 (F) | +16 | +15.9 |
§ 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 | Adaface | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Adaface has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Adaface, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Adaface last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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