§ The result
HiPeople leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 38 points between HiPeople (Assessment) and Mercor (Screening): 61 (D) for HiPeople, 23 (F) for Mercor. HiPeople leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Mercor leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HiPeople 84, Mercor 10, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 35% 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
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
HiPeople 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 | HiPeople | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · Mercor 10
13.3 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · Mercor 22
8.0 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · Mercor 22
5.4 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · Mercor 20
4.8 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · Mercor 42
2.4 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiPeople 35 · Mercor 20
2.3 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · Mercor 40
2.1 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +38.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 38.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +38 beside that +38.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 22 | +40 | +8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 10 | +74 | +13.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 22 | +36 | +5.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 20 | +40 | +4.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 40 | +26 | +2.1 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 23 (F) | +38 | +38.2 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 10 | 8 | 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; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 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 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next