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Mercor
Software Development
San Francisco, California 406,035 followers
We use AI to understand human ability and match talent with the opportunities they're best suited for.
About us
We use AI to understand human ability and match talent with the opportunities they're best suited for.
- Website
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mercor.com/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=bio
External link for Mercor
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2023
Locations
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San Francisco, California 94105, US
Employees at Mercor
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Mercor reposted this
AI being smart isn’t the same as it being useful for real work. AI can pass the bar exam. But can it redline a contract? That’s one of questions we set out to answer with some of the world’s top industry experts: - Lawrence H. Summers, former US Treasury Secretary - Cass Sunstein, the most cited legal scholar - Eric Topol, MD, physician and best-selling author - Dominic Barton, former global managing partner of McKinsey - Dozens of professionals from Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Latham & Watkins, Mount Sinai, and more Today, we're launching the Mercor AI Productivity Index (APEX), a benchmark that measures how well AI has automated the most valuable industries in the world. Most benchmarks measure abstract capabilities. APEX evaluates model performance on real deliverables—the same work consultants, bankers, lawyers, and doctors produce every day. Key findings from APEX: - GPT 5 demonstrates the strongest performance across all 4 domains - Some cheaper models outperform more expensive models from the same provider (e.g. Gemini 2.5 Flash vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro) - The best open source model, Qwen (7th), performs only 2% behind Grok 4 overall This is just the beginning. With APEX v2, we’ll expand to more industries, more complex tasks, and provide an even sharper picture of how AI is reshaping the economy.
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Mercor reposted this
AI being smart isn’t the same as it being useful for real work. AI can pass the bar exam. But can it redline a contract? That’s one of questions we set out to answer with some of the world’s top industry experts: - Lawrence H. Summers, former US Treasury Secretary - Cass Sunstein, the most cited legal scholar - Eric Topol, MD, physician and best-selling author - Dominic Barton, former global managing partner of McKinsey - Dozens of professionals from Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Latham & Watkins, Mount Sinai, and more Today, we're launching the Mercor AI Productivity Index (APEX), a benchmark that measures how well AI has automated the most valuable industries in the world. Most benchmarks measure abstract capabilities. APEX evaluates model performance on real deliverables—the same work consultants, bankers, lawyers, and doctors produce every day. Key findings from APEX: - GPT 5 demonstrates the strongest performance across all 4 domains - Some cheaper models outperform more expensive models from the same provider (e.g. Gemini 2.5 Flash vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro) - The best open source model, Qwen (7th), performs only 2% behind Grok 4 overall This is just the beginning. With APEX v2, we’ll expand to more industries, more complex tasks, and provide an even sharper picture of how AI is reshaping the economy.
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Last Friday, Mercor hosted the Future of Work with General Catalyst. We featured panelists Surya Midha, Co-founder & COO of Mercor, Amresh Subramaniam, Director, Operations of Mercor, Zach Richards, Strategic Projects Lead at Mercor, and Kashyap M. Member of the Technical Staff at Anthropic. Max Rimpel, a Partner at General Catalyst, moderated the discussion. People hailing from consulting, finance, startups, and more came together to discuss what work will look like in an AI economy. At Mercor, we are on a mission to answer that question. If you're an exceptional person interested shaping the future, you can explore our open roles here: https://lnkd.in/gyuBdtcn
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Last Thursday, Mercor hosted our 3rd Women in AI Event in San Francisco. This time, we featured panelists Katie M., Khosla Ventures, Anna Monaco, Founder and CEO of Paradigm, and Nancy Fairbank, Senior Strategic Project Lead at Mercor. Together, we welcomed incredible women across engineering, investing, founding, and operations and shared our own perspectives about the future development of AI. We love building this community, and we’re just getting started! If you’d like to attend our next event, sign up here: https://lnkd.in/g28Cu6mH
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After years of watching Lenny's podcast, it was incredible to do an episode together. The entire economy is becoming an RL environment machine and catalyzing Mercor's unprecedented growth.
How a 22-year-old dyslexic dropout created the fastest revenue-growing business in history—$1M to $500M in just 17 months. Brendan Foody discovered that AI labs were facing a critical bottleneck: they need human experts to create "evals"—tests that teach models what correct looks like. His company Mercor connects labs with lawyers, doctors, engineers, and other specialists who help train AI models at $95-500/hour. Today, Mercor works with 6 of the Magnificent 7, all top 5 AI labs, has never had a customer churn, and has a net revenue retention of 1600%. In my conversation with Brendan, we discuss: 🔸 Why evals have become the primary bottleneck for AI progress 🔸 How exactly Mercor grew to $500M revenue in 17 months 🔸 Brendan’s meeting with xAI that changed his company’s trajectory 🔸 Which skills and jobs will be most valuable as AI continues to advance (hint: jobs with “elastic” demand) 🔸 Why Brendan believes AGI and superintelligence are not happening anytime soon 🔸 The three unique core values that drove Mercor’s success 🔸 How Harvard Lampoon writers are making Claude funnier Listen now 👇 • YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gRMHKrmk • Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g9RYexeQ • Apple: https://lnkd.in/gS5PmcdG Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 WorkOS — Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs: https://workos.com/lenny 🏆 Atlassian Jira Product Discovery — Atlassian's new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams: https://lnkd.in/g6N-tMTy 🏆 Enterpret — Transform customer feedback into product growth: https://lnkd.in/gjz_mCJt
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Behind every breakthrough in AI is human knowledge. At Mercor, experts across law, medicine, and engineering are driving progress and earning up to $400/hour. The future of work starts with you. Explore opportunities at https://lnkd.in/gXRgZjW5
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Glad we made it on Madrona's 2025 Intelligent Applications 40 list!
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In January 2026, Mercor is expanding to NYC! Our platform creates thousands of jobs each week and we’re the fastest growing company in the world by revenue. As we continue to scale rapidly, our new office in NYC will bring us closer to some of the most talented engineers and operators in America. We’re kicking off the recruiting process for: -Strategic Project Leads (former consultants, bankers, PE analysts) -Software Engineers -Machine Learning Engineers Apply to these positions through the links in the comments below!
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The last couple months have been an absolute whirlwind, and we have a couple of exciting announcements to share. First, we are honored to welcome legendary investor Peter Fenton to Mercor's board. Peter has backed dozens of generational companies early, including Airtable, Twitter, and Yelp. Second, Sundeep Jain will be joining Mercor as President, bringing decades of marketplace expertise from Uber where he most recently served as CPO and CTO. Brendan Foody, Surya Midha, and I are excited to scale Mercor to the next level alongside Sundeep. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gAF-WuE6