§ The result
Dayforce leads Mercer | Mettl on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Dayforce finishes 15 points clear of Mercer | Mettl under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 42 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Dayforce leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Mercer | Mettl is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Dayforce leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Dayforce 63 to Mercer | Mettl 55. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dayforce 74, Mercer | Mettl 38 — and at a 20% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
Vendor profile
Mercer | Mettl
Mercer | Mettl is an online talent assessment and remote-proctoring platform offering psychometric, aptitude, coding, and skills tests plus AI-assisted exam proctoring and scoring for hiring, certification, and L&D.
§ The record
Dayforce is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercer | Mettl under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercer | Mettl is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dayforce | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 1992 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Mercer | Mettl 38
7.2 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Mercer | Mettl 45
2.8 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Mercer | Mettl 28
1.8 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Mercer | Mettl 52
1.4 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Mercer | Mettl 55
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Mercer | Mettl 38
1.1 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 38 | +36 | +7.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 45 | +23 | +2.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 38 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 52 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 42 (F) | +15 | +15.5 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next