§ The result
Saville Assessment leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 25 points between Saville Assessment (Assessment) and Mercor (Screening): 48 for Saville Assessment, 23 for Mercor. Saville Assessment leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Mercor leads none. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap (Mercor 22, Saville Assessment 55) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Mercor 10, Saville Assessment 42), 23% of the weighted advantage Saville Assessment 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
Saville Assessment
Saville Assessment publishes the Wave personality questionnaires, Swift aptitude tests and situational judgment tests. They are scored automatically against norm groups and delivered through the Oasys platform, the Wave Connect hiring platform (which uses AI to build role profiles from job descriptions) and a two-minute Screener that returns a fit band into the employer's ATS.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Saville Assessment 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 | Saville Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2023 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Saville Assessment 42
5.8 weighted points to Saville Assessment
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Saville Assessment 50
5.6 weighted points to Saville Assessment
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Saville Assessment 55
5.0 weighted points to Saville Assessment
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Saville Assessment 40
3.0 weighted points to Saville Assessment
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Saville Assessment 38
2.2 weighted points to Saville Assessment
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Saville Assessment 60
1.6 weighted points to Saville Assessment
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Saville Assessment 55
1.6 weighted points to Saville Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -24.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -25 beside that -24.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Saville Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Saville Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 50 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 42 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 40 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 55 | -33 | -5.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 48 (F) | -25 | -24.6 |
§ 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 | Saville Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | 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 | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 34 | 6 | 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; Saville Assessment has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Saville Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 40 for Saville Assessment, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Saville Assessment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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