§ The result
Pulsifi leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Pulsifi, filed under Assessment, comes out 10 points above Mercor, filed under Screening: 33 against 23 under rubric v1.0. Pulsifi takes all 7 criteria from Mercor without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is FRIA Support, Mercor 20 to Pulsifi 25. The advantage Pulsifi holds is spread out: Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Mercor 22, Pulsifi 40, 15% weight), yet it supplies only 27% of the weighted points Pulsifi gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
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
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Pulsifi under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Pulsifi 40
2.7 weighted points to Pulsifi
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Pulsifi 20
1.8 weighted points to Pulsifi
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Pulsifi 30
1.6 weighted points to Pulsifi
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Pulsifi 55
1.6 weighted points to Pulsifi
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Pulsifi 28
1.0 weighted points to Pulsifi
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Pulsifi 25
0.8 weighted points to Pulsifi
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Pulsifi 46
0.5 weighted points to Pulsifi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -9.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 30 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 20 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 40 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 28 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 46 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 33 (F) | -10 | -9.9 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 7 | 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; 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 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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