§ The result
Humanly and Mercer | Mettl tie at 42.
Humanly (Screening) and Mercer | Mettl (Assessment) tie at 42 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Humanly leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Mercer | Mettl 3, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Humanly 40, Mercer | Mettl 55 — and at a 15% weight it carries 63% of the weighted advantage Mercer | Mettl holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Humanly
Conversational AI for high-volume recruiting that engages, screens, and schedules candidates across chat, SMS, email, voice, and video, with structured AI interviews and automated scoring.
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
Humanly is filed under Screening AI, Mercer | Mettl under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Humanly | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2018 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Humanly 40 · Mercer | Mettl 55
2.3 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Humanly 58 · Mercer | Mettl 45
1.6 weighted points to Humanly
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Humanly 45 · Mercer | Mettl 38
1.4 weighted points to Humanly
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Humanly 35 · Mercer | Mettl 28
1.1 weighted points to Humanly
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Humanly 30 · Mercer | Mettl 38
1.0 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Humanly 40 · Mercer | Mettl 42
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.6 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 +0.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Humanly minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Humanly | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 42 (F) | - | +0.4 |
§ 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 | Humanly | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 12 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Humanly has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 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 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Humanly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Humanly last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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