Mercor believes the most important problem in the world is what people do every day. As AI labs and enterprises race to automate every task in the economy, the bottleneck isn't compute, it's human expertise.
Mercor organizes that expertise to power the AI economy: connecting domain experts across hundreds of professional fields to frontier AI labs, measuring AI's real-world performance through its APEX benchmarks, and bringing the same expert network to Fortune 2000 companies deploying AI in production. Founded in 2023, Mercor is backed by Benchmark, Felicis, General Catalyst, and Menlo Ventures.
$4M
Paid out to the expert network every day
400+
Employees across San Francisco, New York, and London
$10B
Backed by Benchmark, Felicis, General Catalyst & Menlo Ventures
5M+
Domain experts across hundreds of professional fields
Recognized for the work
- 2026TIME100 AI: Brendan Foody, InnovatorTIME
- 202624 AI Startups to WatchBloomberg
- 2025Forbes AI 50Forbes
- 2025Forbes Cloud 100Forbes
- 2025Linkedin Top StartupLinkedin
Mercor in the news
Mercor raises a $350 million Series C at a $10 billion valuation
AI Productivity Index sets a new standard for measuring whether AI can perform high-value work
Mercor is the fastest-growing company supplying human expertise
Engineers, doctors, and finance professionals are joining a fast-growing field, bringing their expertise to train frontier AI models
Professionals are finding a new income stream by applying their expertise to AI training
Mercor's APEX-Agents benchmark becomes a leading measure of how well AI handles real professional work
Experts are earning top hourly rates teaching AI to do specialized work, and it is becoming a booming business
Inside the expert network teaching AI to handle complex professional work across dozens of fields
Tens of thousands of skilled professionals are earning an average of more than $95 an hour on Mercor
