§ The result
RecruitBot leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
RecruitBot sits 14 points above Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 37 against 23 — with RecruitBot filed under Sourcing and Mercor under Screening. RecruitBot leads every one of the 7 criteria, Mercor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Mercor 20 to RecruitBot 27. Even Data Governance Disclosure, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Mercor 22, RecruitBot 48, 15% weight), is only 28% of the weighted advantage RecruitBot builds 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
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, RecruitBot under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ 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 · RecruitBot 48
3.9 weighted points to RecruitBot
12% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · RecruitBot 40
2.4 weighted points to RecruitBot
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · RecruitBot 33
2.2 weighted points to RecruitBot
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · RecruitBot 22
2.2 weighted points to RecruitBot
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · RecruitBot 55
1.2 weighted points to RecruitBot
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · RecruitBot 27
1.1 weighted points to RecruitBot
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · RecruitBot 50
1.0 weighted points to RecruitBot
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -13.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 33 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 22 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 27 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 48 | -26 | -3.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 40 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 37 (F) | -14 | -13.9 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 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 | 25 | 6 | 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; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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