§ The result
Mercer | Mettl leads Entelo on all 7 criteria.
Mercer | Mettl scores 42 and Entelo 33 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Mercer | Mettl leads every one of the 7 criteria, Entelo none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Entelo 25 to Mercer | Mettl 28. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Entelo 20, Mercer | Mettl 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Mercer | Mettl holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Entelo
Entelo is an AI-powered talent sourcing and diversity-recruiting platform that aggregates hundreds of millions of public candidate profiles and applies predictive machine-learning models to score, rank, and surface (including underrepresented) candidates for recruiters.
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
Entelo is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Mercer | Mettl under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercer | Mettl is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Entelo | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2011 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Entelo 20 · Mercer | Mettl 42
4.0 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Entelo 30 · Mercer | Mettl 38
1.6 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Entelo 45 · Mercer | Mettl 55
1.5 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Entelo 40 · Mercer | Mettl 52
1.0 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Entelo 25 · Mercer | Mettl 28
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Entelo 42 · Mercer | Mettl 45
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Entelo 35 · Mercer | Mettl 38
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -9.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Entelo minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Entelo | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 42 (F) | -9 | -9.2 |
§ 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 | Entelo | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Entelo has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 8 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 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Entelo, across 3 distinct source domains, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Entelo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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