§ The result
Talkpush leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Talkpush finishes 23 points clear of Mercor inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 46 against 23. Talkpush leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Mercor leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Mercor 10, Talkpush 42) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Mercor 22, Talkpush 52), the second being 27% of the weighted advantage Talkpush 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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
Mercor and Talkpush are both filed under Screening 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 | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | HK |
| Founded | 2023 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Talkpush 52
6.0 weighted points to Talkpush
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Talkpush 42
5.8 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Talkpush 44
3.3 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Talkpush 46
3.1 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Talkpush 56
1.7 weighted points to Talkpush
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Talkpush 60
1.6 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Talkpush 27
1.1 weighted points to Talkpush
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -22.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -23 beside that -22.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 52 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 42 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 27 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 44 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 56 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 46 | -26 | -3.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 46 (F) | -23 | -22.5 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 2 | 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 | 4 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 21 | 7 | Sources 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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