§ The result
Crosschq leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
The Screening cohort pairing of Crosschq and Mercor comes out 47 to 23 under rubric v1.0, a 24-point lead for Crosschq. Mercor leads none of the 7 criteria, and Crosschq is ahead on 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Crosschq 58, Mercor 22) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Crosschq 50, Mercor 22), the second being 23% of the weighted advantage Crosschq holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Crosschq
Crosschq is a hiring-intelligence platform that combines automated 360 reference checks, an AI Interview Agent that conducts and scores voice/video screening interviews, AI resume matching and ranking, candidate-fraud and identity checks, Traitify personality and cognitive assessments, and quality-of-hire analytics.
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
Crosschq and Mercor are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Crosschq | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Crosschq 50 · Mercor 22
5.6 weighted points to Crosschq
15% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Crosschq 58 · Mercor 22
5.4 weighted points to Crosschq
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Crosschq 38 · Mercor 10
5.0 weighted points to Crosschq
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Crosschq 62 · Mercor 42
2.4 weighted points to Crosschq
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Crosschq 40 · Mercor 20
2.4 weighted points to Crosschq
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Crosschq 62 · Mercor 40
1.8 weighted points to Crosschq
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Crosschq 30 · Mercor 20
1.5 weighted points to Crosschq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +24.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +24 beside that +24.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Crosschq minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Crosschq | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 22 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 10 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 22 | +36 | +5.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 20 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 23 (F) | +24 | +24.1 |
§ 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 | Crosschq | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Crosschq has 43 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 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 Crosschq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 43 for Crosschq, across 3 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Crosschq last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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