§ The result
2 points separate Mercer | Mettl and Cappfinity.
Under rubric v1.0, Mercer | Mettl and Cappfinity finish 2 points apart, 42 to 40, as two Assessment entries. Cappfinity takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 3 for Mercer | Mettl, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cappfinity 28, Mercer | Mettl 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 75% of the weighted advantage Mercer | Mettl holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Cappfinity
Cappfinity sells strengths-, skills- and cognitive-reasoning assessments, task-based job simulations, a digital assessment centre and an asynchronous video interview platform with optional AI-assisted scoring, and is used mainly for graduate and early-careers hiring.
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
Cappfinity and Mercer | Mettl are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Cappfinity | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 2005 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cappfinity 28 · Mercer | Mettl 42
2.5 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cappfinity 52 · Mercer | Mettl 45
0.8 weighted points to Cappfinity
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · Mercer | Mettl 55
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · Mercer | Mettl 38
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · Mercer | Mettl 52
0.3 weighted points to Cappfinity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -2.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 38 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 42 (F) | -2 | -2.2 |
§ 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 | Cappfinity | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Cappfinity has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 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 Cappfinity sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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