§ The result
Workable leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 25 points between Workable (ATS-integrated) and Mercor (Screening): 48 for Workable, 23 for Mercor. Workable 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: Data Governance Disclosure (Mercor 22, Workable 58) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Mercor 22, Workable 55), the second being 27% of the weighted advantage Workable 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
Workable
Workable is an all-in-one applicant tracking system and HR platform whose AI feature layer (Workable AI / Workable Agent) sources, screens, scores, and matches candidates and drafts recruiting content within the recruiting workflow.
§ The record
Mercor is filed under Screening AI, Workable 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 | Workable |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2012 |
§ 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 · Workable 55
6.6 weighted points to Workable
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Mercor 10 · Workable 42
5.8 weighted points to Workable
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Mercor 22 · Workable 58
5.4 weighted points to Workable
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Mercor 20 · Workable 42
2.6 weighted points to Workable
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Mercor 42 · Workable 62
2.4 weighted points to Workable
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Mercor 40 · Workable 56
1.3 weighted points to Workable
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Mercor 20 · Workable 25
0.8 weighted points to Workable
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -24.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -25 beside that -24.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Mercor minus Workable.
| Category | Weight | Mercor | Workable | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 22 | 55 | -33 | -6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 42 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 22 | 58 | -36 | -5.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 62 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 56 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 23 (F) | 48 (F) | -25 | -24.8 |
§ 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 | Workable | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 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; Workable has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Workable sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains, and 17 for Workable, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workable last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next