Mercor

Mercor provides human expert data and AI evaluation services. Its APEX benchmark family measures whether frontier AI models can perform economically valuable tasks in professional services, accounting and software engineering. The company also offers enterprise AI services, including custom AI agents, data monetization and staffing of teams with vetted domain experts.

Its customers are AI labs and large enterprises that need human evaluation and training data, and the experts who supply that work. The company's website states that it has 30k+ experts on the platform, that experts are paid over $4 million per day, and that the average contracted rate is $112/hr. Revenue comes from enterprise and lab engagements for human data, evals and benchmarks, and from enterprise AI deployments.

Mercor was founded in 2023 and is headquartered at 181 Fremont Street in San Francisco, with offices in New York City and London. The website reports a $350 million Series C at a $10 billion valuation and describes the company as profitable. Its open roles are concentrated in engineering, research, operations, people and finance across San Francisco and New York City, with some operations roles in Mexico City.

Product: APEX benchmarks, human data and evaluation services for AI models, and enterprise AI deployment with embedded domain experts.