§ The result
Recruitee leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Recruitee finishes 19 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 42 against 23 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Recruitee leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 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, Recruitee 52, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 24% of the weighted advantage Recruitee 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
Recruitee
Collaborative applicant tracking system, part of the Tellent group, with AI-assisted features for job-description generation, screening candidates against team-defined criteria, resurfacing past applicants, and summarizing evaluation feedback.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Recruitee under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Mercor | Recruitee |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2023 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Recruitee 52
4.5 weighted points to Recruitee
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Recruitee 42
4.0 weighted points to Recruitee
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Recruitee 30
3.6 weighted points to Recruitee
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Recruitee 40
2.4 weighted points to Recruitee
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Recruitee 58
1.9 weighted points to Recruitee
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Recruitee 58
1.4 weighted points to Recruitee
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Recruitee 27
1.1 weighted points to Recruitee
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Recruitee.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Recruitee | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 42 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 30 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 27 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 52 | -30 | -4.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 40 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 42 (F) | -19 | -18.9 |
§ 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 | Recruitee | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 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; Recruitee has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 21 for Recruitee, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitee last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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