§ The result
Knockri leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Knockri finishes 24 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 47 against 23 — across the Video interview and Screening cohorts. Knockri leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Mercor leads none. The advantage Knockri holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Knockri 55, Mercor 22, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 28% of the weighted points Knockri gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Knockri
Knockri runs asynchronous structured behavioural interviews that candidates answer by audio, video or text; it transcribes the answers, uses NLP models to score the work-related behaviours they describe against a skills framework, and produces per-skill scores and ranked shortlists.
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
Knockri is filed under Video interview AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Knockri | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Knockri 55 · Mercor 22
6.6 weighted points to Knockri
15% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Knockri 55 · Mercor 22
5.0 weighted points to Knockri
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Knockri 35 · Mercor 10
4.5 weighted points to Knockri
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Knockri 35 · Mercor 20
2.3 weighted points to Knockri
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Knockri 60 · Mercor 42
2.2 weighted points to Knockri
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Knockri 35 · Mercor 20
1.8 weighted points to Knockri
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Knockri 55 · Mercor 40
1.2 weighted points to Knockri
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +23.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 23.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +24 beside that +23.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Knockri minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Knockri | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 22 | +33 | +6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 10 | +25 | +4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 22 | +33 | +5.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 23 (F) | +24 | +23.5 |
§ 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 | Knockri | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Knockri has 41 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 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 Knockri sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 41 for Knockri, across 7 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Knockri last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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