§ The result
Equalture leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Equalture finishes 21 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 23 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Equalture leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Mercor leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Equalture 55, Mercor 22) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Equalture 40, Mercor 10), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage Equalture holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Equalture
Equalture is a game-based pre-employment assessment platform whose short browser games measure candidates' cognitive abilities and behavioural tendencies and convert them into a Fit Score ranked against an employer-specific "Success Profile" derived from that employer's own top performers.
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
Equalture is filed under Assessment AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Equalture | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Equalture 40 · Mercor 10
5.4 weighted points to Equalture
15% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Equalture 55 · Mercor 22
5.0 weighted points to Equalture
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Equalture 45 · Mercor 22
4.6 weighted points to Equalture
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Equalture 38 · Mercor 20
2.2 weighted points to Equalture
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Equalture 60 · Mercor 40
1.6 weighted points to Equalture
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Equalture 30 · Mercor 20
1.5 weighted points to Equalture
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Equalture 50 · Mercor 42
1.0 weighted points to Equalture
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +21.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Equalture minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Equalture | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 22 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 10 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 22 | +33 | +5.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 23 (F) | +21 | +21.2 |
§ 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 | Equalture | 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 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Equalture has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Equalture, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Equalture last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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