§ The result
Bryq leads Mercer | Mettl on all 7 criteria.
Bryq finishes 15 points clear of Mercer | Mettl inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 57 against 42. Bryq leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercer | Mettl none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Bryq 62 to Mercer | Mettl 55. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Bryq 70, Mercer | Mettl 42, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
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
Bryq and Mercer | Mettl are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2017 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Mercer | Mettl 42
5.0 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Mercer | Mettl 38
3.2 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Mercer | Mettl 38
2.0 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Mercer | Mettl 28
1.8 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Mercer | Mettl 52
1.1 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Mercer | Mettl 45
1.1 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Mercer | Mettl 55
1.1 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.3 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 +15.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 38 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 42 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 45 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 52 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 42 (F) | +15 | +15.3 |
§ 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 | Bryq | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 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 Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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