§ The result
Classet leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Classet scores 55 to 23 for Mercor, a 32-point gap between two Screening entries. Classet leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Mercor leads none. The advantage Classet holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Classet 76, Mercor 10, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 37% of the weighted points Classet gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Classet
Classet's AI voice recruiter, Joy, phones hourly and frontline applicants within about a minute of applying, runs employer-scripted screening interviews with binary knockout questions, and sends recruiters recordings, transcripts, summaries and a qualified/unqualified outcome, either in Classet's lightweight ATS or in 100+ connected ATSs.
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
Classet and Mercor are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Classet | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Classet 76 · Mercor 10
11.9 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Classet 57 · Mercor 22
5.3 weighted points to Classet
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Classet 46 · Mercor 22
4.8 weighted points to Classet
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Classet 58 · Mercor 20
4.6 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Classet 33 · Mercor 20
1.9 weighted points to Classet
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Classet 62 · Mercor 40
1.8 weighted points to Classet
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Classet 55 · Mercor 42
1.6 weighted points to Classet
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +31.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 31.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +32 beside that +31.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Classet minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Classet | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 46 | 22 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 76 | 10 | +66 | +11.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 20 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 22 | +35 | +5.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 20 | +38 | +4.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 23 (F) | +32 | +31.8 |
§ 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 | Classet | 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% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Classet has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 5 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 Classet sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for Classet, across 3 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Classet last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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