§ The result
Mercer | Mettl leads Pulsifi by 9 points.
Mercer | Mettl finishes 9 points ahead of Pulsifi under rubric v1.0, 42 to 33, both scored as Assessment entries. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Mercer | Mettl: Mercer | Mettl is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Pulsifi on Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Mercer | Mettl 42, Pulsifi 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 40% of the weighted advantage Mercer | Mettl holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
§ The record
Mercer | Mettl and Pulsifi are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercer | Mettl | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | SG |
| Founded | 2010 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercer | Mettl 42 · Pulsifi 20
4.0 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercer | Mettl 55 · Pulsifi 40
2.3 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Pulsifi 30
1.6 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercer | Mettl 45 · Pulsifi 55
1.2 weighted points to Pulsifi
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Pulsifi 28
1.2 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 52 · Pulsifi 46
0.5 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercer | Mettl 28 · Pulsifi 25
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +8.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercer | Mettl minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Mercer | Mettl | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 46 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 33 (F) | +9 | +8.7 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 7 | 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; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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