§ The result
Test Partnership leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 27 points between Test Partnership (Assessment) and Mercor (Screening): 50 for Test Partnership, 23 for Mercor. Test Partnership leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Mercor leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap (Mercor 10, Test Partnership 48) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Mercor 22, Test Partnership 57), 26% of the weighted advantage Test Partnership builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Test Partnership under Assessment 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 | Test Partnership |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2023 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Test Partnership 57
7.0 weighted points to Test Partnership
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Test Partnership 48
6.8 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Test Partnership 57
5.3 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Test Partnership 36
2.4 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Test Partnership 58
1.9 weighted points to Test Partnership
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Test Partnership 62
1.8 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Test Partnership 33
1.6 weighted points to Test Partnership
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -26.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 26.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -27 beside that -26.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Test Partnership.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Test Partnership | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 57 | -35 | -7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 48 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 36 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 57 | -35 | -5.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 33 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 50 (F) | -27 | -26.7 |
§ 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 | Test Partnership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 6 | 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; Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Test Partnership sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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