§ The result
Draup leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Draup finishes 19 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 42 against 23 — across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. Draup leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Mercor leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Draup 54, Mercor 22) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Draup 48, Mercor 22), the second being 27% of the weighted advantage Draup holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Draup
Draup is an AI-powered talent- and sales-intelligence platform that aggregates over a billion public professional profiles into skills, roles and labour-market analytics, and surfaces ranked candidate shortlists for enterprise workforce planning and recruiting.
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
Draup is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Draup | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Draup 48 · Mercor 22
5.2 weighted points to Draup
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Draup 54 · Mercor 22
4.8 weighted points to Draup
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Draup 33 · Mercor 10
4.1 weighted points to Draup
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Draup 58 · Mercor 42
1.9 weighted points to Draup
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Draup 57 · Mercor 40
1.4 weighted points to Draup
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Draup 28 · Mercor 20
1.0 weighted points to Draup
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Draup 25 · Mercor 20
0.8 weighted points to Draup
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +19 beside that +19.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Draup minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Draup | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 22 | +26 | +5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 10 | +23 | +4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 22 | +32 | +4.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 23 (F) | +19 | +19.1 |
§ 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 | Draup | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Draup has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 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; some documentation or audit rows for Draup sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Draup, across 2 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Draup last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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