§ The result
Pinpoint leads Mercer | Mettl on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Pinpoint finishes 15 points clear of Mercer | Mettl under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 42 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Pinpoint leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Mercer | Mettl is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Pinpoint leads is FRIA Support, Mercer | Mettl 28 to Pinpoint 38. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Mercer | Mettl 38, Pinpoint 72 — and at a 20% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage Pinpoint holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
§ The record
Mercer | Mettl is filed under Assessment AI, Pinpoint under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Mercer | Mettl is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercer | Mettl | Pinpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | JE |
| Founded | 2010 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Pinpoint 72
6.8 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercer | Mettl 45 · Pinpoint 64
2.3 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercer | Mettl 55 · Pinpoint 68
1.9 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Pinpoint 52
1.7 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercer | Mettl 28 · Pinpoint 38
1.5 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 52 · Pinpoint 66
1.1 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -15.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.3 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 -15.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercer | Mettl minus Pinpoint.
| Category | Weight | Mercer | Mettl | Pinpoint | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 72 | -34 | -6.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 68 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 64 | -19 | -2.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 52 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 66 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 57 (F) | -15 | -15.3 |
§ 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 | Mercer | Mettl | Pinpoint | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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