§ The result
Tezi leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 separates Tezi and Mercor, both Screening entries, by 35 points: 58 for Tezi, 23 for Mercor. Tezi leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 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, Tezi 83, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 38% of the weighted advantage Tezi 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
Tezi
Tezi's product "Max" is an autonomous AI recruiting agent that sources passive candidates, screens and ranks inbound applications via conversational chat, and schedules interviews, integrating with ATS and calendar tools.
§ The record
Mercor and Tezi 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 | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Tezi 83
13.1 weighted points to Tezi
20% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · Tezi 52
6.0 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Tezi 55
5.0 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Tezi 58
4.6 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Tezi 38
2.7 weighted points to Tezi
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Tezi 63
2.5 weighted points to Tezi
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Tezi 50
0.8 weighted points to Tezi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -34.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 34.7 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 -34.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 52 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 83 | -73 | -13.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 55 | -33 | -5.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 63 | -21 | -2.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 58 | -38 | -4.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 58 (F) | -35 | -34.7 |
§ 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 | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 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; Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
Scored against