Jan 21, 2026Introducing APEX-AgentsMercor APEX-Agents is a benchmark designed to test how well AI agents complete real, long-horizon tasks in investment banking, consulting, and corporate law.Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO
Jan 15, 2026APEX-AgentsIntroducing APEX-Agents: A new benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real-world professional tasks across multiple domains.Brendan FoodyCo-founder & CEO
Jan 10, 2026Expanding the AI Productivity Index (APEX)We are expanding APEX to cover more professional domains and provide deeper insights into AI capabilities across industries.Brendan FoodyCo-founder & CEO
Jan 5, 2026Introducing APEX: The AI Productivity IndexAnnouncing APEX, our new AI Productivity Index that measures how AI tools impact professional productivity across various domains.Brendan FoodyCo-founder & CEO
Dec 10, 2025Expanding the AI Productivity Index (APEX)Doubling the size of the AI Productivity Index to better measure AI models’ economic value. Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO
Dec 9, 2025Introducing the AI Consumer IndexAI Consumer Index tests what people actually want AI to do across shopping, food, gaming and DIY, created by experts from the Mercor platform.Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO
Oct 27, 2025Unlocking Human Potential in the AI EconomyAnnouncing Mercor's $350 million Series C at a $10 billion valuation.Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO
Oct 24, 2025Big thingsOur focus to deliver on a mission to unlock human potential.Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO
Oct 1, 2025Introducing APEX: The AI Productivity IndexA New Benchmark Measuring the Economic Impact of AIBrendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO
Sep 15, 2025The Economy will Become an RL Environment MachineWhile everyone fears job loss, we’re creating a new category of knowledge work faster than any other time in history. The future of work will converge on training agents.Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO
Jul 17, 2025Why I Joined MercorPeople often ask why I left a burgeoning career in law to work for Mercor...Nancy FairbankStrategic Projects Lead
Jul 15, 2025Mercor Graduate Fellowship WinnersAt Mercor, we connect graduate-level experts with meaningful, well-paid work that leverages their domain knowledge, while providing AI labs with access to our highly specialized and trusted network of talent.Adarsh HiremathCo-founder / CTO
Jun 30, 2025Welcome to The Era of EvalsReinforcement Learning (RL) is driving the most exciting advancements in AI. RL is becoming so effective that models will be able to saturate any evaluation. This means that the primary barrier to applying agents to the entire economy is building evals for everything. However, AI labs are facing a dire shortage of relevant evaluations.Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO
May 8, 2025Why I Joined MercorThroughout my career, I’ve been drawn to foundational challenges. The kind that, if solved right, can transform the biggest systems in the world. With each technological shift–web, cloud, mobile, and now AI–we’ve seen a new class of category-defining companies emerge.Srini RajagopalVP Engineering
Mar 3, 2025The Secret Mercor Master PlanImagine a world where Jeff Bezos is a hedge fund investor, Howard Shultz is a salesman, and Reed Hastings is a teacher. That was the world we lived in, not so long ago. These are the jobs they were doing before they found the best use for their talents.Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO
Feb 20, 2025Announcing Mercor's Series BMercor is the global allocator for extraordinary human talent in the AI economy, and one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley history. We’ve just raised a $100M Series B to solve the hardest problem in capitalism: matching human ability to its greatest use.Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO
Jan 10, 2024Introducing Mercor: Redefining Hiring With AIToday, we're excited to announce $3.6M in funding and the launch of our fully-automated platform, which uses AI to assess and match talent with companies. Our round is led by General Catalyst and includes participation from Scott Sandell (Chairman, CEO and CIO of NEA) and others.Brendan FoodyCo-founder / CEO
