§ The result
Cappfinity leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Cappfinity finishes 17 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 40 against 23 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Cappfinity leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Cappfinity 28 to Mercor 20. Even Data Governance Disclosure, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cappfinity 52, Mercor 22, 15% weight), is only 27% of the weighted advantage Cappfinity builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
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
Cappfinity 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, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Cappfinity | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2005 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · Mercor 22
4.5 weighted points to Cappfinity
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cappfinity 28 · Mercor 10
3.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · Mercor 22
2.8 weighted points to Cappfinity
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cappfinity 38 · Mercor 20
2.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · Mercor 40
1.3 weighted points to Cappfinity
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cappfinity 28 · Mercor 20
1.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cappfinity 52 · Mercor 42
1.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +16.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 22 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 10 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 22 | +30 | +4.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 40 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 23 (F) | +17 | +16.4 |
§ 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 | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | 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; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 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 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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