§ The result
Indeed leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 27 points between Indeed (Sourcing) and Mercor (Screening): 50 for Indeed, 23 for Mercor. Indeed 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. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Indeed 58, Mercor 22, 20% weight), is only 26% of the weighted advantage Indeed builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Indeed
Job marketplace whose employer-side AI (the Talent Scout agent, Sourcing Assistant, Smart Screening and candidate matching) sources, ranks and scores candidates from Indeed's profile pool and applicant flow and drafts outreach to them.
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
Indeed 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, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Indeed | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Indeed 58 · Mercor 22
7.2 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Indeed 58 · Mercor 22
5.4 weighted points to Indeed
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Indeed 38 · Mercor 10
5.0 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Indeed 38 · Mercor 20
2.7 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Indeed 63 · Mercor 42
2.5 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Indeed 40 · Mercor 20
2.4 weighted points to Indeed
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Indeed 64 · Mercor 40
1.9 weighted points to Indeed
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +27.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +27 beside that +27.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Indeed minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Indeed | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 22 | +36 | +7.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 10 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 20 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 22 | +36 | +5.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 42 | +21 | +2.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 20 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 40 | +24 | +1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 23 (F) | +27 | +27.2 |
§ 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 | Indeed | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Indeed has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 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 Indeed sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Indeed, across 5 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Indeed last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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