§ The result
hireEZ and Mercer | Mettl tie at 42.
hireEZ (Sourcing) and Mercer | Mettl (Assessment) tie at 42 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. hireEZ leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Mercer | Mettl 2, with 2 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Mercer | Mettl takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (hireEZ 30, Mercer | Mettl 42), which is 83% of the weighted advantage Mercer | Mettl holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Human Oversight Design, hireEZ 58 to Mercer | Mettl 45.
Vendor profile
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
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
hireEZ is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Mercer | Mettl under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercer | Mettl is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | hireEZ | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hireEZ 30 · Mercer | Mettl 42
2.2 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hireEZ 58 · Mercer | Mettl 45
1.6 weighted points to hireEZ
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hireEZ 60 · Mercer | Mettl 55
0.8 weighted points to hireEZ
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hireEZ 58 · Mercer | Mettl 52
0.5 weighted points to hireEZ
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hireEZ 25 · Mercer | Mettl 28
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +0.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hireEZ minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | hireEZ | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 42 (F) | - | +0.2 |
§ 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 | hireEZ | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next