§ The result
The Predictive Index leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 25 points between The Predictive Index (Assessment) and Mercor (Screening): 48 for The Predictive Index, 23 for Mercor. The Predictive Index leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Mercor leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Mercor 10, The Predictive Index 45, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 26% of the weighted advantage The Predictive Index 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
The Predictive Index
The Predictive Index provides validated behavioral and cognitive psychometric assessments used to screen, hire, and develop employees and design teams, alongside AI-assisted talent-management software.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, The Predictive Index under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | The Predictive Index |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 1955 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · The Predictive Index 45
6.3 weighted points to The Predictive Index
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · The Predictive Index 50
5.6 weighted points to The Predictive Index
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · The Predictive Index 55
5.0 weighted points to The Predictive Index
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · The Predictive Index 43
2.8 weighted points to The Predictive Index
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · The Predictive Index 35
2.3 weighted points to The Predictive Index
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · The Predictive Index 60
1.6 weighted points to The Predictive Index
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · The Predictive Index 52
1.2 weighted points to The Predictive Index
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -24.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -25 beside that -24.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus The Predictive Index.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | The Predictive Index | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 50 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 45 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 55 | -33 | -5.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 43 | -23 | -2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 48 (F) | -25 | -24.7 |
§ 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 | Mercor | The Predictive Index | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; The Predictive Index has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 24 for The Predictive Index, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- The Predictive Index last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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