§ The result
hackajob leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
hackajob finishes 22 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 23 — across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. hackajob 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 advantage hackajob holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (hackajob 60, Mercor 22, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points hackajob gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
hackajob
Archer, hackajob's AI sourcing agent, is calibrated by a recruiter on a hiring brief, then finds, engages and qualifies passive candidates from a 1.5m-member pool and 800m+ indexed profiles and invites those who meet the bar to apply through the employer's existing ATS.
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
hackajob 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 | hackajob | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
hackajob 60 · Mercor 22
7.6 weighted points to hackajob
15% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hackajob 58 · Mercor 22
5.4 weighted points to hackajob
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
hackajob 38 · Mercor 20
2.2 weighted points to hackajob
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hackajob 20 · Mercor 10
1.8 weighted points to hackajob
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hackajob 32 · Mercor 20
1.8 weighted points to hackajob
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hackajob 60 · Mercor 40
1.6 weighted points to hackajob
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hackajob 55 · Mercor 42
1.6 weighted points to hackajob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +22 beside that +21.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 22 | +38 | +7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 10 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 20 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 22 | +36 | +5.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 23 (F) | +22 | +21.9 |
§ 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 | hackajob | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 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 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 4 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 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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