§ The result
Alva Labs leads Mercer | Mettl on all 7 criteria.
Alva Labs finishes 19 points clear of Mercer | Mettl inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 61 (D) against 42 (F). Alva Labs leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercer | Mettl none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Alva Labs 38 to Mercer | Mettl 28. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Alva Labs 78, Mercer | Mettl 38 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Alva Labs holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Alva Labs
Alva Labs sells a science-backed hiring platform whose core is a suite of proprietary psychometric assessments - an adaptive logic (general mental ability) test, a Five-Factor Model personality test, and coding tests - wrapped in candidate management, CV screening, and structured-interview tooling.
Vendor profile
Mercer | Mettl
Mercer | Mettl is an online talent assessment and remote-proctoring platform offering psychometric, aptitude, coding, and skills tests plus AI-assisted exam proctoring and scoring for hiring, certification, and L&D.
§ The record
Alva Labs and Mercer | Mettl are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alva Labs | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | IN |
| Founded | 2017 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alva Labs 78 · Mercer | Mettl 38
8.0 weighted points to Alva Labs
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alva Labs 58 · Mercer | Mettl 42
2.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alva Labs 63 · Mercer | Mettl 45
2.2 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alva Labs 68 · Mercer | Mettl 55
1.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alva Labs 52 · Mercer | Mettl 38
1.7 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alva Labs 38 · Mercer | Mettl 28
1.5 weighted points to Alva Labs
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alva Labs 68 · Mercer | Mettl 52
1.3 weighted points to Alva Labs
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +19 beside that +19.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 38 | +40 | +8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 45 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 52 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 42 (F) | +19 | +19.4 |
§ 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 | Alva Labs | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Alva Labs has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alva Labs sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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