§ The result
SeekOut leads Mercor by 11 points.
SeekOut sits 11 points above Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 34 against 23 — with SeekOut filed under Sourcing and Mercor under Screening. SeekOut leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Mercor leads 1, including Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Mercor 10, SeekOut 40 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage SeekOut holds across the 6 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
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, SeekOut 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 | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · SeekOut 40
5.4 weighted points to SeekOut
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · SeekOut 35
2.6 weighted points to SeekOut
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · SeekOut 35
1.9 weighted points to SeekOut
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · SeekOut 25
0.8 weighted points to SeekOut
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · SeekOut 25
0.6 weighted points to SeekOut
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · SeekOut 35
0.4 weighted points to Mercor
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · SeekOut 45
0.4 weighted points to SeekOut
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 35 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 40 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 35 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 34 (F) | -11 | -11.3 |
§ 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 | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | 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; SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 25 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next