§ The result
BrightHire leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 separates BrightHire and Mercor, both Screening entries, by 28 points: 51 for BrightHire, 23 for Mercor. BrightHire leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Mercor leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (BrightHire 50, Mercor 10, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 26% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
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
BrightHire 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 | BrightHire | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Mercor 10
7.2 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Mercor 22
6.0 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Mercor 22
5.7 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Mercor 20
2.6 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Mercor 20
2.4 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Mercor 42
2.2 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Mercor 40
1.8 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +27.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +28 beside that +27.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 22 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 10 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 20 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 22 | +38 | +5.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 23 (F) | +28 | +27.9 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | 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% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next