§ The result
BambooHR leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
BambooHR finishes 20 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 43 against 23 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. BambooHR leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Data Governance Disclosure among them; Mercor leads none. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (BambooHR 56, Mercor 22, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 25% of the weighted advantage BambooHR holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
BambooHR
A cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized businesses combining an HRIS and applicant tracking with generative AI features such as AI-drafted job descriptions and a natural-language HR data assistant.
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
BambooHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Mercor is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BambooHR | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2008 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Mercor 22
5.1 weighted points to BambooHR
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Mercor 22
4.0 weighted points to BambooHR
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Mercor 10
3.2 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Mercor 20
2.9 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Mercor 20
2.1 weighted points to BambooHR
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Mercor 40
1.8 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Mercor 42
1.0 weighted points to BambooHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +20.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 22 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 10 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 20 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 22 | +34 | +5.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 20 | +24 | +2.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 23 (F) | +20 | +20.0 |
§ 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 | BambooHR | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next