§ The result
Hogan Assessments leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Hogan Assessments finishes 24 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 47 against 23 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Hogan Assessments leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 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 (Hogan Assessments 44, Mercor 10, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 26% of the weighted advantage Hogan Assessments holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Hogan Assessments
Hogan Assessments provides science-based personality assessments - chiefly the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), Hogan Development Survey (HDS), and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) - used to predict workplace performance for employee selection and development.
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
Hogan Assessments 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 | Hogan Assessments | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1987 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Hogan Assessments 44 · Mercor 10
6.1 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Hogan Assessments 50 · Mercor 22
5.6 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Hogan Assessments 52 · Mercor 22
4.5 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Hogan Assessments 36 · Mercor 20
2.4 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Hogan Assessments 40 · Mercor 20
2.4 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Hogan Assessments 62 · Mercor 40
1.8 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Hogan Assessments 52 · Mercor 42
1.2 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +24.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +24 beside that +24.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Hogan Assessments minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Hogan Assessments | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 22 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 10 | +34 | +6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 20 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 22 | +30 | +4.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 20 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 23 (F) | +24 | +24.0 |
§ 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 | Hogan Assessments | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Hogan Assessments has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 6 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 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Hogan Assessments, across 1 distinct source domain, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Hogan Assessments last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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