§ The result
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) leads Mercer | Mettl on all 7 criteria.
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) finishes 15 points clear of Mercer | Mettl under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 42 — across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Juicebox (PeopleGPT) leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercer | Mettl none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 56 to Mercer | Mettl 55. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 84, Mercer | Mettl 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Juicebox (PeopleGPT) holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) is an AI talent-sourcing search engine that lets recruiters find, rank, and reach candidates across 800M+ public profiles using natural-language queries instead of Boolean search, with an "Autopilot" agent that scores and ranks profiles against job criteria.
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
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Mercer | Mettl under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercer | Mettl is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Juicebox (PeopleGPT) | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2022 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 84 · Mercer | Mettl 42
7.6 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 52 · Mercer | Mettl 38
2.8 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 55 · Mercer | Mettl 38
2.0 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 35 · Mercer | Mettl 28
1.1 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 60 · Mercer | Mettl 52
0.6 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 50 · Mercer | Mettl 45
0.6 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) 56 · Mercer | Mettl 55
0.1 weighted points to Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +14.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Juicebox (PeopleGPT) minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Juicebox (PeopleGPT) | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 42 | +42 | +7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 42 (F) | +15 | +14.8 |
§ 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 | Juicebox (PeopleGPT) | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Juicebox (PeopleGPT) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Juicebox (PeopleGPT), across 4 distinct source domains, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Juicebox (PeopleGPT) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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