§ The result
iMocha leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 33 points between iMocha (Assessment) and Mercor (Screening): 56 for iMocha, 23 for Mercor. iMocha leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Mercor leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (iMocha 68, Mercor 22, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 28% of the weighted advantage iMocha holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
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
iMocha is filed under Assessment AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | iMocha | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
iMocha 68 · Mercor 22
9.2 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · Mercor 22
6.6 weighted points to iMocha
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · Mercor 10
6.1 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iMocha 48 · Mercor 20
3.4 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · Mercor 20
2.7 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · Mercor 42
2.6 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · Mercor 40
2.1 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +32.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 32.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +33 beside that +32.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 22 | +46 | +9.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 10 | +34 | +6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 22 | +44 | +6.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 42 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 20 | +28 | +3.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 40 | +26 | +2.1 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 23 (F) | +33 | +32.7 |
§ 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 | iMocha | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 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; some documentation or audit rows for iMocha sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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