§ The result
Sense leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 separates Sense and Mercor, both Screening entries, by 35 points: 58 for Sense, 23 for Mercor. Sense leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Mercor leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Mercor 10, Sense 72, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage Sense 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
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
§ The record
Mercor and Sense 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 | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Sense 72
11.2 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Sense 60
7.6 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Sense 58
5.4 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Sense 52
3.8 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Sense 38
2.7 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Sense 64
2.6 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Sense 62
1.8 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -35.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 35.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -35 beside that -35.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Sense.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Sense | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 60 | -38 | -7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 72 | -62 | -11.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 58 | -36 | -5.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 64 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 52 | -32 | -3.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 58 (F) | -35 | -35.1 |
§ 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 | Sense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 3 | 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; Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sense sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next