Mercor

Overview

Mercor is a San Francisco-based technology company, founded in 2023, with a singular mission: organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to understand and map human ability, then matches talent with the opportunities they are best suited for. As an infrastructure layer for the emerging AI ecosystem, Mercor connects domain experts with top AI labs, research institutions, and forward-looking enterprises that need specialized human input to train, evaluate, and refine their models.

At its core, Mercor uses sophisticated AI-driven matching to assess professional backgrounds, skills, and experiences. This enables the platform to build a high-fidelity representation of each individual's expertise, which is then continuously updated and refined. Talented professionals gain access to a diverse range of remote work opportunities—from short-term data labeling tasks and surveys to long-term consulting roles in frontier AI research. The platform manages the entire lifecycle: role discovery, application, vetting, contract management, and secure payments. With an average contracted rate of $109 per hour and more than 390,000 unique roles created to date, Mercor has become a robust marketplace for expert human intelligence.

For enterprises, Mercor provides a comprehensive suite of human data solutions. These include access to vetted on-demand experts for reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) data, AI agent training, model evaluation, and domain-specific research. The company also offers off-the-shelf data and APEX benchmarking products—APEX-Agents, APEX-Accounting, APEX-SWE—that enable organizations to measure and improve AI productivity. Additionally, Mercor's data monetization capabilities allow enterprises to turn proprietary data assets into revenue, while its human data infrastructure ensures high-quality annotation, generation, and validation essential for enterprise AI deployments.

The platform's value proposition is speed and precision: it dramatically shortens the time from identifying a need to having the right expert on the job. Whether a company needs thousands of STEM professionals for a labeling campaign, or a biotech researcher for a specialized survey, Mercor scales human participation intelligently. By balancing rigorous AI assessment with human judgment, Mercor ensures both quality and relevance across every engagement. Ultimately, Mercor is building the organizing layer for human intelligence—a dynamic network that lets the best minds contribute directly to the advancement of AI.

Core capabilities

AI-Powered Talent Matching

Uses AI to understand human ability and match experts with the opportunities they are best suited for, maximizing fit and impact.

Global Expert Network

Provides access to a broad, vetted community of professionals across STEM, finance, design, marketing, and more.

Frontier AI Project Opportunities

Connects experts with top AI labs for RLHF, agent training, and frontier research projects.

Enterprise Human Data Solutions

Supplies high-quality human data generation, labeling, and validation to support enterprise AI training pipelines.

APEX Benchmarking Suite

Offers APEX-Agents, APEX-Accounting, and APEX-SWE to benchmark and evaluate AI model productivity.

Streamlined Contract and Payment Management

Automates contracts, payments, and payouts (including daily payouts) with competitive average hourly rates.

Remote Work Enablement

Facilitates fully remote engagements with flexible scheduling for global participants.

Broad Role Diversity

Includes over 390,000 roles created across domains, from healthcare surveys to STEM instruction.

Use cases

Generating human preference data for RLHF and fine-tuning large language models

Evaluating AI agent performance with APEX benchmarks

Conducting healthcare and pharmacy benefits surveys for decision-maker insights

Building custom domain-specific datasets for enterprise AI training

Providing expert consultation in accounting, HR, design, or marketing for short-term projects

Monetizing proprietary human data through Mercor's data monetization platform

Scaling STEM expert input for model development and curriculum creation