§ The result
Recruit CRM leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Recruit CRM finishes 17 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 40 against 23 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Recruit CRM leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Data Governance Disclosure among them; Mercor leads none. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Mercor 22, Recruit CRM 54, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 28% of the weighted advantage Recruit CRM 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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Mercor is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Recruit CRM 54
4.8 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Recruit CRM 42
2.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Recruit CRM 34
2.4 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Recruit CRM 34
2.1 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Recruit CRM 58
1.9 weighted points to Recruit CRM
18% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Recruit CRM 20
1.8 weighted points to Recruit CRM
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Recruit CRM 60
1.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 34 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 20 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 34 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 54 | -32 | -4.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 40 (F) | -17 | -17.3 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 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 | 30 | 5 | Sources 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; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
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 Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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