§ The result
Ashby leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 33 points between Ashby (ATS-integrated) and Mercor (Screening): 56 for Ashby, 23 for Mercor. Ashby is ahead of Mercor on all 7 criteria, every one of them by 20 raw points or more. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Ashby 62, Mercor 10, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 28% of the weighted advantage Ashby holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform combining applicant tracking, CRM/sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, with embedded AI features including resume-to-criteria evaluation, AI-assisted application review, sourcing outreach, and scheduling agents.
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
Ashby is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ashby | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ashby 62 · Mercor 10
9.4 weighted points to Ashby
20% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ashby 63 · Mercor 22
8.2 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ashby 58 · Mercor 22
5.4 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ashby 42 · Mercor 20
3.3 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ashby 42 · Mercor 20
2.6 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ashby 62 · Mercor 42
2.4 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ashby 63 · Mercor 40
1.8 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +33.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 33.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +33 beside that +33.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 22 | +41 | +8.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 10 | +52 | +9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +3.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 22 | +36 | +5.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 40 | +23 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 23 (F) | +33 | +33.1 |
§ 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 | Ashby | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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