Mercor

Mercor is an AI-powered talent platform that connects companies — particularly those working on artificial intelligence development — with skilled professionals to accelerate model training, evaluation, and data generation. At its core, the platform leverages an expert network of over 30,000 professionals spanning hundreds of domains, including software engineering, medicine, and creative services, to help leading AI labs and enterprises build higher-quality frontier models. Mercor specializes in advanced evaluation design, reinforcement learning environments, and frontier data systems, offering capabilities like rubric-based assessment frameworks that support multiple modalities including text, image, audio, video, and code. For candidates and freelancers, the platform functions as an AI-driven job marketplace, using intelligent matching algorithms to surface relevant opportunities based on skills and experience, eliminating the need to search across multiple job boards and consolidating applications, assessments, and interview tracking in a single dashboard. It is best suited for technology professionals, AI researchers, domain experts, and freelancers seeking high-value project work, as well as for enterprises and AI labs that need to source specialized human expertise to power model benchmarking and data annotation initiatives. Mercor also offers APEX, a proprietary family of benchmarks designed to evaluate whether frontier models can perform economically valuable real-world tasks, making it a comprehensive solution for organizations serious about advancing AI capabilities with rigorous human-in-the-loop quality standards.