§ The result
Jobylon leads Mercer | Mettl by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Jobylon, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 48 and Mercer | Mettl, filed under Assessment, on 42, 6 points apart. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Jobylon: Jobylon is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Mercer | Mettl on Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Jobylon 55, Mercer | Mettl 38 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Jobylon holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Jobylon
Jobylon is a Stockholm-based applicant tracking system and talent CRM for enterprise employers whose optional AI features score each applicant's CV against the job description, suggest existing candidates for other open roles, draft job ads and screening questions, and run candidate screening and interview scheduling over WhatsApp, SMS and email.
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
Jobylon is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercer | Mettl under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercer | Mettl is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Jobylon | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | IN |
| Founded | 2011 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Jobylon 55 · Mercer | Mettl 38
3.4 weighted points to Jobylon
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Jobylon 28 · Mercer | Mettl 42
2.5 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Jobylon 60 · Mercer | Mettl 45
1.8 weighted points to Jobylon
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Jobylon 36 · Mercer | Mettl 28
1.2 weighted points to Jobylon
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Jobylon 45 · Mercer | Mettl 38
0.8 weighted points to Jobylon
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Jobylon 60 · Mercer | Mettl 52
0.6 weighted points to Jobylon
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Jobylon 58 · Mercer | Mettl 55
0.4 weighted points to Jobylon
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jobylon minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Jobylon | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 28 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 42 (F) | +6 | +5.8 |
§ 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 | Jobylon | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | 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% | 28 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Jobylon has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 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 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Jobylon, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Jobylon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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