§ The result
Mercer | Mettl and Talogy tie at 42.
Mercer | Mettl and Talogy tie at 42 under rubric v1.0 inside the Assessment cohort, arriving there from different criteria. Mercer | Mettl leads 4 of the 7 criteria and Talogy 3, yet the two totals land on the same number. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Mercer | Mettl 38, Talogy 53 — and at a 20% weight it carries 69% of the weighted advantage Talogy holds across the 3 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
Talogy
Talogy sells psychometric talent-assessment products - cognitive ability tests (Logiks, Mindgage), personality inventories (Caliper, P.A.P.I.), values-based screening, situational judgement and job simulations, and 360 feedback - delivered through its TalogyTech platform for candidate selection and employee development.
§ The record
Mercer | Mettl and Talogy are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: 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 | Talogy |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 1946 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Talogy 53
3.0 weighted points to Talogy
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercer | Mettl 42 · Talogy 30
2.2 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercer | Mettl 45 · Talogy 52
0.8 weighted points to Talogy
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercer | Mettl 38 · Talogy 32
0.7 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercer | Mettl 52 · Talogy 58
0.5 weighted points to Talogy
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercer | Mettl 28 · Talogy 25
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercer | Mettl 55 · Talogy 52
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercer | Mettl minus Talogy.
| Category | Weight | Mercer | Mettl | Talogy | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 53 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 32 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 42 (F) | - | -0.5 |
§ 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 | Talogy | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 22 | 9 | 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; Talogy has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 22 with a source URL, 9 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talogy, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talogy last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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