§ The result
Brazen leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Brazen finishes 15 points clear of Mercor inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 38 against 23. Brazen leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Brazen 46 to Mercor 42. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Brazen 45, Mercor 22) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Brazen 40, Mercor 22), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage Brazen holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
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
Brazen and Mercor are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brazen | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · Mercor 22
3.6 weighted points to Brazen
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · Mercor 10
3.6 weighted points to Brazen
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · Mercor 22
3.4 weighted points to Brazen
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · Mercor 20
2.2 weighted points to Brazen
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · Mercor 40
1.2 weighted points to Brazen
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · Mercor 20
0.8 weighted points to Brazen
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · Mercor 42
0.5 weighted points to Brazen
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 22 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 10 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 22 | +23 | +3.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 42 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 23 (F) | +15 | +15.2 |
§ 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 | Brazen | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 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 29 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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