§ The result
Teamtailor leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Teamtailor finishes 24 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 47 against 23 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Teamtailor leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 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: Data Governance Disclosure (Mercor 22, Teamtailor 58) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Mercor 22, Teamtailor 50), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage Teamtailor 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
Teamtailor
Teamtailor is a Stockholm-based applicant tracking and employer-branding platform whose OpenAI-powered "Co-pilot" assists recruiters with candidate screening, resume and interview summaries, talent-pool matching, interview-question generation, and AI-assisted job-ad and content writing.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Teamtailor under ATS-integrated 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 | Teamtailor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2023 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Teamtailor 50
5.6 weighted points to Teamtailor
15% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Teamtailor 58
5.4 weighted points to Teamtailor
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Teamtailor 30
3.6 weighted points to Teamtailor
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Teamtailor 42
3.3 weighted points to Teamtailor
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Teamtailor 42
2.6 weighted points to Teamtailor
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Teamtailor 62
1.8 weighted points to Teamtailor
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Teamtailor 54
1.4 weighted points to Teamtailor
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -23.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 23.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -24 beside that -23.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Teamtailor.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Teamtailor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 50 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 30 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 58 | -36 | -5.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 54 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 47 (F) | -24 | -23.7 |
§ 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 | Teamtailor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Teamtailor has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 20 for Teamtailor, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Teamtailor last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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