§ The result
Sense leads Mercer | Mettl on all 7 criteria.
Sense finishes 16 points clear of Mercer | Mettl under rubric v1.0 — 58 against 42 — across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Sense leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercer | Mettl none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Mercer | Mettl 55 to Sense 58. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Mercer | Mettl 42, Sense 72, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Sense holds across the 7 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
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
§ The record
Mercer | Mettl is filed under Assessment AI, Sense under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercer | Mettl 42 · Sense 72
5.4 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Sense 60
4.4 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercer | Mettl 45 · Sense 64
2.3 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Sense 52
1.7 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercer | Mettl 28 · Sense 38
1.5 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 52 · Sense 62
0.8 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercer | Mettl 55 · Sense 58
0.4 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercer | Mettl minus Sense.
| Category | Weight | Mercer | Mettl | Sense | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 72 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 64 | -19 | -2.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 52 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 58 (F) | -16 | -16.5 |
§ 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 | Mercer | Mettl | Sense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 16 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sense sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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