§ The result
Humanly leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Humanly finishes 19 points clear of Mercor inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 42 against 23. Humanly leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Humanly 30 to Mercor 20. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Humanly 40, Mercor 10, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 28% of the weighted advantage Humanly holds across the 7 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
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
Humanly and Mercor are both filed under Screening 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 | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Humanly 40 · Mercor 10
5.4 weighted points to Humanly
20% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Humanly 45 · Mercor 22
4.6 weighted points to Humanly
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Humanly 40 · Mercor 22
2.7 weighted points to Humanly
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Humanly 35 · Mercor 20
2.3 weighted points to Humanly
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Humanly 58 · Mercor 42
1.9 weighted points to Humanly
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Humanly 30 · Mercor 20
1.2 weighted points to Humanly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Humanly 52 · Mercor 40
1.0 weighted points to Humanly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.0 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 +19.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Humanly minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Humanly | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 22 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 10 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 22 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 23 (F) | +19 | +19.0 |
§ 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 | Humanly | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 12 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 8 | 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; 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 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Humanly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Humanly last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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