§ The result
UKG leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
UKG finishes 21 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 23 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. UKG leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 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, UKG 56) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Mercor 22, UKG 48), the second being 25% of the weighted advantage UKG 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
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, UKG under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Mercor 22 · UKG 48
5.2 weighted points to UKG
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · UKG 56
5.1 weighted points to UKG
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · UKG 30
3.6 weighted points to UKG
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · UKG 35
2.3 weighted points to UKG
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · UKG 38
2.2 weighted points to UKG
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · UKG 52
1.2 weighted points to UKG
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · UKG 55
1.2 weighted points to UKG
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -20.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus UKG.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 48 | -26 | -5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 30 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 35 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 56 | -34 | -5.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 44 (F) | -21 | -20.7 |
§ 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 | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 6 | 8 | 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; UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 documented absences.
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 UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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