§ The result
SEEK leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SEEK scores 54 to 23 for Mercor, a 31-point gap between two Screening entries. Mercor leads none of the 7 criteria, and SEEK is ahead on 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Mercor 22, SEEK 70, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage SEEK 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
SEEK
SEEK runs employment marketplaces in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia (SEEK, Jobstreet and Jobsdb), and its seekAi employer tools label and rank applicants as 'high-fit' using a model trained on millions of past hirer shortlisting decisions, target job ads at predicted high-fit candidates, and run AI voice or text pre-screens, recommended shortlists and reference checks through a feature called Assist.
§ The record
Mercor and SEEK are both filed under Screening 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 | SEEK |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2023 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · SEEK 70
9.6 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · SEEK 60
5.7 weighted points to SEEK
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · SEEK 40
5.4 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · SEEK 50
3.6 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · SEEK 62
2.4 weighted points to SEEK
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · SEEK 64
1.9 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · SEEK 32
1.8 weighted points to SEEK
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -30.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 30.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -31 beside that -30.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus SEEK.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | SEEK | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 70 | -48 | -9.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 40 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 32 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 60 | -38 | -5.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 62 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 50 | -30 | -3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 64 | -24 | -1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 54 (F) | -31 | -30.4 |
§ 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 | SEEK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 7 | 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; SEEK has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SEEK sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 30 for SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
Scored against