§ The result
JazzHR leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
JazzHR finishes 21 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 23 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. JazzHR leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Mercor leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (JazzHR 52, Mercor 22) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (JazzHR 45, Mercor 22), the second being 22% of the weighted advantage JazzHR holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
JazzHR
JazzHR is a small-business applicant tracking system that manages job posting, applications and hiring workflows, and layers on AI "Talent Fit" scoring that ranks candidates against a job description plus automated knockout screening questions.
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
JazzHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | JazzHR | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2009 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JazzHR 45 · Mercor 22
4.6 weighted points to JazzHR
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JazzHR 35 · Mercor 10
4.5 weighted points to JazzHR
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JazzHR 52 · Mercor 22
4.5 weighted points to JazzHR
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JazzHR 42 · Mercor 20
2.6 weighted points to JazzHR
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JazzHR 58 · Mercor 42
1.9 weighted points to JazzHR
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JazzHR 56 · Mercor 40
1.3 weighted points to JazzHR
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
JazzHR 28 · Mercor 20
1.2 weighted points to JazzHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +20.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JazzHR minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | JazzHR | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 22 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 10 | +25 | +4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 22 | +30 | +4.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 40 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 23 (F) | +21 | +20.6 |
§ 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 | JazzHR | 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% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 17 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
JazzHR has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 7 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 JazzHR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for JazzHR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JazzHR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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