Mercor is a talent marketplace: candidates apply to Mercor, take an AI interview, and are matched to projects, many of them for AI labs looking for domain experts. HireHouse is software you use to run your own hiring: your roles, your candidates, your rubric and your decision.
| Dimension | HireHouse | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | AI hiring platform you use to hire for your own roles, or your clients' roles. | Talent marketplace that matches vetted people to companies and projects. |
| Built for | Startups and recruiting agencies. | Companies, including AI labs, looking for contract experts and engineers. |
| Interview format | Live two-way voice AI interview with follow-up questions. Recorded video interviews are also available. | Candidates take an AI interview when they join, and the result is reused across opportunities. |
| Scoring | Skills rubric generated from each job description, editable by you, with four levels per skill. | Mercor assesses candidates for its own marketplace. |
| Integrity checks | CV contradiction and credibility checks. Proctoring signals (face, phone, book, window focus) for human review. | See Mercor's website for its current approach. |
| Evidence for reviewers | Recording, full transcript and quoted evidence for every skill score. | Candidate profiles presented by Mercor. |
| Regional focus | India, the UAE and the GCC. | Global, mostly remote work. |
| Who decides | Your team. Optional automation can be switched on. | The hiring company, from the candidates Mercor presents. |
Choose Mercor if you want a marketplace to supply vetted contract talent. Choose HireHouse if you want to interview and rank your own applicants, or your clients' applicants as an agency, against a rubric built from your job description.
Information about Mercor comes from its public website and announcements, checked in October 2026. Products change: if anything here is out of date, email hello@hirehouse.xyz and we will correct it.
Post a role, share one interview link, and get a ranked shortlist with recordings and transcripts.