§ The result
Pinpoint leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 34 points between Pinpoint (ATS-integrated) and Mercor (Screening): 57 for Pinpoint, 23 for Mercor. Pinpoint leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Mercor leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Mercor 22, Pinpoint 72, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 29% of the weighted advantage Pinpoint holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
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
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Pinpoint under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | Pinpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | JE |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Pinpoint 72
10.0 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Pinpoint 68
6.9 weighted points to Pinpoint
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Pinpoint 42
5.8 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Pinpoint 52
3.8 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Pinpoint 38
2.7 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Pinpoint 64
2.6 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Pinpoint 66
2.1 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -33.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 33.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -34 beside that -33.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Pinpoint.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Pinpoint | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 72 | -50 | -10.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 42 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 68 | -46 | -6.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 64 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 52 | -32 | -3.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 66 | -26 | -2.1 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 57 (F) | -34 | -33.9 |
§ 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 | Mercor | Pinpoint | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 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 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next