§ The result
Qureos leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Qureos sits 10 points above Mercor under rubric v1.0, 33 against 23, with both filed under Screening. Qureos leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, Mercor 10 to Qureos 12. The advantage Qureos holds is spread out: Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Mercor 22, Qureos 44, 15% weight), yet it supplies only 34% of the weighted points Qureos 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
Qureos
Qureos is a Dubai-based AI recruiting platform whose Iris agents source candidates, score and rank applicants against recruiter-set criteria, and run AI voice and video interviews with personality scoring, alongside an ATS and a job-seeker marketplace focused on MENA and South Asia.
§ The record
Mercor and Qureos are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | Qureos |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AE |
| Founded | 2023 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Qureos 44
3.3 weighted points to Qureos
12% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Qureos 35
1.8 weighted points to Qureos
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Qureos 54
1.4 weighted points to Qureos
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Qureos 28
1.2 weighted points to Qureos
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Qureos 52
1.0 weighted points to Qureos
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Qureos 25
0.8 weighted points to Qureos
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Qureos 12
0.4 weighted points to Qureos
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.8 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 -9.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Qureos.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Qureos | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 28 | -6 | -1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 12 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 44 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 54 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 33 (F) | -10 | -9.8 |
§ 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 | Qureos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 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; Qureos has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 35 for Qureos, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Qureos last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next