§ The result
Criteria leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 30 points between Criteria (Assessment) and Mercor (Screening): 53 for Criteria, 23 for Mercor. Criteria leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Mercor leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Criteria 68, Mercor 22, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 31% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
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
Criteria 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 | Criteria | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · Mercor 22
9.2 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · Mercor 10
6.8 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · Mercor 22
6.0 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · Mercor 20
2.6 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · Mercor 20
1.8 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · Mercor 42
1.7 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · Mercor 40
1.6 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +29.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 29.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +30 beside that +29.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 22 | +46 | +9.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 10 | +38 | +6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 20 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 22 | +40 | +6.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 42 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 23 (F) | +30 | +29.8 |
§ 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 | Criteria | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 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 Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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