§ The result
HiPeople leads Mercer | Mettl on all 7 criteria.
HiPeople finishes 19 points clear of Mercer | Mettl inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 61 (D) against 42 (F). HiPeople leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Mercer | Mettl leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HiPeople 84, Mercer | Mettl 42, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 38% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
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
HiPeople and Mercer | Mettl are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiPeople | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | IN |
| Founded | 2019 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · Mercer | Mettl 42
7.6 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · Mercer | Mettl 38
4.8 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · Mercer | Mettl 38
2.6 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · Mercer | Mettl 45
2.0 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · Mercer | Mettl 52
1.1 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiPeople 35 · Mercer | Mettl 28
1.1 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · Mercer | Mettl 55
0.4 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.7 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 +19.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 38 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 42 | +42 | +7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 38 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 52 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 42 (F) | +19 | +19.7 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 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; some documentation or audit rows for HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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