§ The result
Canditech leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Canditech finishes 16 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 39 against 23 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Canditech leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Canditech 30 to Mercor 20. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Canditech 52, Mercor 22, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 28% of the weighted advantage Canditech holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Canditech
Canditech is a skills-assessment and job-simulation platform that screens candidates with work-sample tests, technical and soft-skill assessments, and one-way video interviews, using AI agents to auto-score open-text and video responses.
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
Canditech is filed under Assessment AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Canditech | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IL | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Canditech 52 · Mercor 22
4.5 weighted points to Canditech
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Canditech 37 · Mercor 22
3.0 weighted points to Canditech
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Canditech 25 · Mercor 10
2.7 weighted points to Canditech
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Canditech 30 · Mercor 20
1.5 weighted points to Canditech
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Canditech 32 · Mercor 20
1.4 weighted points to Canditech
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Canditech 58 · Mercor 40
1.4 weighted points to Canditech
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Canditech 53 · Mercor 42
1.3 weighted points to Canditech
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Canditech minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Canditech | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 37 | 22 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 10 | +15 | +2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 22 | +30 | +4.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 42 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 20 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 23 (F) | +16 | +15.9 |
§ 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 | Canditech | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next