§ The result
HiredScore leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 29 points between HiredScore (Sourcing) and Mercor (Screening): 52 for HiredScore, 23 for Mercor. HiredScore leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Mercor leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (HiredScore 55, Mercor 10) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (HiredScore 65, Mercor 22), the second being 30% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
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
HiredScore 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 and NYC LL 144. Only Mercor is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiredScore | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Mercor 22
8.6 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Mercor 10
8.1 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · Mercor 22
5.0 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Mercor 42
2.2 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Mercor 20
1.8 weighted points to HiredScore
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · Mercor 40
1.6 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · Mercor 20
1.5 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +28.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 28.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +29 beside that +28.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 22 | +43 | +8.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 10 | +45 | +8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 22 | +33 | +5.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 23 (F) | +29 | +28.7 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 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 HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 25 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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