Mercor is an AI talent marketplace and enterprise AI company focused on organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy. It connects experts with leading AI labs and enterprises, builds frontier benchmarks and datasets, and develops software for deploying company-specific AI agents. Through its marketplace, Mercor recruits, vets, and pays professionals across domains such as law, medicine, finance, software engineering, and operations.
Mercor also operates a growing research and product layer around model evaluation and agent performance, including the APEX benchmark family and ACE. Its positioning sits at the intersection of expert labor, frontier AI evaluation, and enterprise agent deployment. Mercor operates at significant scale, with 400+ full-time employees, a reported $1B+ revenue run rate, and more than 100k contractors hired.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Mercor combines marketplace infrastructure, research workflows, and enterprise software. Its capabilities include sourcing and assessing specialized professionals, creating large-scale human data and evaluation assets, building reinforcement learning environments, and supporting post-training and benchmarking work for advanced AI systems.
On the enterprise side, Mercor helps organizations turn internal workflows, institutional knowledge, and operating standards into deployable agents. Its software captures organizational context, translates that context into agent behavior specifications and quality guardrails, and improves performance through automated and human feedback loops. Mercor also supports deployment on top of a customer’s existing models, agent frameworks, and internal systems rather than requiring a closed stack.
Products and Services
- Mercor Enterprise AI: Enterprise AI platform that converts company data, workflows, and domain expertise into agents with defined behavior, guardrails, and continuous improvement loops.
- Mercor talent network: Expert marketplace that matches professionals to remote AI training, evaluation, and data work through profile creation, AI assessments, and project-based offers.
- APEX: The AI Productivity Index benchmark for measuring whether frontier models can perform economically valuable work across investment banking, consulting, law, and primary care.
- APEX-Agents: Benchmark for evaluating frontier AI agents on long-horizon, cross-application professional services tasks in areas such as consulting, investment banking, and corporate law.
- APEX-SWE: Software engineering benchmark that measures real-world agent performance on integration and observability tasks tied to economically valuable engineering work.
- ACE: The AI Consumer Index benchmark for testing how well frontier models handle everyday consumer tasks across shopping, food, gaming, and DIY.
- Archipelago: Open-source infrastructure service for executing and evaluating agent trajectories in benchmark environments.
Target Customers
Mercor serves two main customer groups. On the demand side, it targets frontier AI labs, model developers, and enterprises that need specialized human expertise, benchmark creation, evaluation infrastructure, or custom AI agents grounded in real workflows. Its enterprise offer is especially relevant for organizations with complex, multi-step processes in recruiting, operations, engineering, finance, and customer service.
On the supply side, Mercor targets professionals who can contribute domain judgment to AI systems. Its network spans physicians, lawyers, software engineers, financial analysts, consultants, researchers, operators, and other specialists seeking remote, project-based work tied to AI training and evaluation.
Key People
- Brendan Foody: Co-founder / CEO
- Adarsh Hiremath: Co-CEO
- Sundeep Jain: President
- Surya Midha: Co-founder
- Srini Rajagopal: VP Engineering
- Luna Aizarani: General Manager, Growth
- Amresh Subramaniam: Director of Operations
Key Facts
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
- Employees: 400+ full-time employees
- Annual Revenue: $1B+ revenue run rate
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: Sepal AI
- Publicly Listed: No (private)
