Mercor

Mercor is an AI talent marketplace that sources, interviews, and matches vetted experts to roles using natural-language search and AI-led video interviews, widely used to supply specialized human expertise to AI labs and companies.

Mercor is a talent marketplace built around AI-driven matching. On the candidate side, applicants upload a resume and complete a roughly 20-minute AI-led video interview that assesses skills and builds a detailed profile. On the company side, hiring teams describe the person they want in natural language, and Mercor's semantic search queries hundreds of thousands of resumes, portfolios, interview transcripts, and public profiles like GitHub to surface strong matches in seconds. The platform also handles interviewing, verification, and payments, aiming to be an end-to-end hiring layer. Founded in 2023 by Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha, Mercor has grown quickly, raising a $75 million Series B that valued it at around $2 billion, and building a pool of over 100,000 domain experts. It has become especially prominent as a source of specialized human expertise, including physicians, lawyers, and PhD researchers, for AI labs and companies that need high-quality data labeling, evaluation, and expert work. Mercor is best for companies that need to source vetted specialists or contractors quickly, particularly for expert-driven or research-heavy work, and for professionals seeking flexible, well-matched opportunities. It is less relevant to organizations wanting a traditional in-house applicant tracking system rather than a marketplace, and pricing for employers is arranged directly rather than published.