§ The result
JobAdder leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
JobAdder finishes 22 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 23 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. JobAdder 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. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap (JobAdder 56, Mercor 22) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (JobAdder 50, Mercor 22), 25% of the weighted advantage JobAdder builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
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
JobAdder 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 | JobAdder | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · Mercor 22
5.6 weighted points to JobAdder
15% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JobAdder 56 · Mercor 22
5.1 weighted points to JobAdder
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · Mercor 10
4.5 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · Mercor 20
2.8 weighted points to JobAdder
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
JobAdder 30 · Mercor 20
1.5 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · Mercor 42
1.4 weighted points to JobAdder
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JobAdder 58 · Mercor 40
1.4 weighted points to JobAdder
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +22.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +22 beside that +22.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 22 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 10 | +25 | +4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 22 | +34 | +5.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 42 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 20 | +23 | +2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 23 (F) | +22 | +22.3 |
§ 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 | JobAdder | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 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 domainSources 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% | 5 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 JobAdder sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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