§ The result
Infor Talent Science leads Mercer | Mettl on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Inside the Assessment cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Infor Talent Science on 49 and Mercer | Mettl on 42, 7 points apart. Infor Talent Science leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Mercer | Mettl is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Infor Talent Science leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Infor Talent Science 57 to Mercer | Mettl 55. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Infor Talent Science 58, Mercer | Mettl 38) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 54% of the weighted advantage Infor Talent Science holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Infor Talent Science
Infor Talent Science is a cloud-based pre-hire behavioral and cognitive assessment platform. It scores candidates against patented machine-learning 'Performance Profiles' built from the behavior and performance data of an employer's successful incumbents, and gives hiring teams fit scores, recommendations and interview questions that are used to rank and route applicants.
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
Infor Talent Science and Mercer | Mettl are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Infor Talent Science | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2002 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Infor Talent Science 58 · Mercer | Mettl 38
4.0 weighted points to Infor Talent Science
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Infor Talent Science 35 · Mercer | Mettl 28
1.1 weighted points to Infor Talent Science
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Infor Talent Science 45 · Mercer | Mettl 38
0.8 weighted points to Infor Talent Science
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Infor Talent Science 60 · Mercer | Mettl 52
0.6 weighted points to Infor Talent Science
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Infor Talent Science 50 · Mercer | Mettl 45
0.6 weighted points to Infor Talent Science
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Infor Talent Science 57 · Mercer | Mettl 55
0.3 weighted points to Infor Talent Science
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +7.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Infor Talent Science minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Infor Talent Science | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 38 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 42 (F) | +7 | +7.4 |
§ 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 | Infor Talent Science | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Infor Talent Science has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Infor Talent Science, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Infor Talent Science last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next