§ The result
Ceipal leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Ceipal sits 12 points above Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 35 against 23 — with Ceipal filed under ATS-integrated and Mercor under Screening. Ceipal leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Ceipal 46 to Mercor 42. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Ceipal 46, Mercor 22, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 31% of the weighted advantage Ceipal holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
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
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Mercor is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ceipal | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Mercor 22
3.6 weighted points to Ceipal
12% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Mercor 20
2.2 weighted points to Ceipal
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Mercor 10
1.8 weighted points to Ceipal
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Mercor 22
1.6 weighted points to Ceipal
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Mercor 40
1.0 weighted points to Ceipal
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Mercor 20
0.8 weighted points to Ceipal
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Mercor 42
0.5 weighted points to Ceipal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +11.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 10 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 22 | +24 | +3.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 42 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 40 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 23 (F) | +12 | +11.4 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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