§ The result
hireEZ leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
hireEZ finishes 19 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 42 against 23 — across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. hireEZ leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, hireEZ 25 to Mercor 20. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (hireEZ 60, Mercor 22, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 30% of the weighted advantage hireEZ holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
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
hireEZ 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, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | hireEZ | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hireEZ 60 · Mercor 22
5.7 weighted points to hireEZ
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hireEZ 30 · Mercor 10
3.6 weighted points to hireEZ
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
hireEZ 38 · Mercor 22
3.2 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
hireEZ 38 · Mercor 20
2.2 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hireEZ 58 · Mercor 42
1.9 weighted points to hireEZ
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hireEZ 58 · Mercor 40
1.4 weighted points to hireEZ
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hireEZ 25 · Mercor 20
0.8 weighted points to hireEZ
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.8 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 +18.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hireEZ minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | hireEZ | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 22 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 10 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 22 | +38 | +5.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 23 (F) | +19 | +18.8 |
§ 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 | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | 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; 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 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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