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Organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy
We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models.
Founded in 2023, Mercor is advancing the frontier of AI with human intelligence. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work, and Mercor Enterprise brings the same expert network and evaluation infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies deploying AI in production.

Mercor founding story

A note from Brendan & Adarsh

We started Mercor because we believe the most important problem in the world is what people do every day. As we approach AGI, there is enormous uncertainty around what role humans will play in the economy. We wanted to build the company that answers that question.

The leading AI labs and enterprises are racing to build systems that mirror every app, world, and task in the economy. The bottleneck isn't compute. It's human intelligence: the expertise, judgment, and real-world knowledge that only people can provide.

Mercor is organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy.

We find the best experts in every professional domain and put their knowledge to work training frontier models. Through APEX, we measure whether those models can actually perform economically valuable work. We're also bringing that expertise to enterprises: deploying custom AI agents, staffing teams with vetted domain experts, and helping organizations encode their own knowledge into AI systems.

We do all of this in a way that creates real economic value for people.

As AI gets more powerful, human expertise gets more valuable. We're building the company that makes that true.

Brendan Foody & Adarsh Hiremath, Co-founders & Co-CEOs

Mercor awards

Recognized for the work

  • 2026America’s Greatest Startup WorkplacesNewsweek
  • 202624 AI Startups to WatchBloomberg
  • 2025Forbes AI 50Forbes
  • 2025Forbes Cloud 100Forbes
  • 2025Linkedin Top StartupLinkedin

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Our investors

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  • General Catalyst logo
  • Felicis logo
  • Robinhood Ventures logo
  • Menlo Ventures logo

Mercor offices

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If you want to do the most important work of your career, faster than anywhere else, we'd like to meet you.

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