§ The result
Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 33 points between Pymetrics (Harver Games) (Assessment) and Mercor (Screening): 56 for Pymetrics (Harver Games), 23 for Mercor. Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 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, Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage Pymetrics (Harver Games) 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
Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Behavioral assessment using browser-based "games" that infer cognitive and emotional traits. Acquired by Harver in 2022 and folded into the Harver Games product line.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Pymetrics (Harver Games) 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 | Pymetrics (Harver Games) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80
12.6 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 70
9.6 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 60
5.7 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 35
1.8 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 55
1.2 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 50
1.0 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 25
0.8 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -32.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 32.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -33 beside that -32.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Pymetrics (Harver Games).
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 70 | -48 | -9.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 80 | -70 | -12.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 60 | -38 | -5.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 56 (F) | -33 | -32.6 |
§ 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 | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Pymetrics (Harver Games) has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Pymetrics (Harver Games) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 11 for Pymetrics (Harver Games), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pymetrics (Harver Games) last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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