§ The result
3 points separate Manatal and Brazen.
Manatal (ATS-integrated) edges Brazen (Screening) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 41 to 38. Manatal leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Human Oversight Design, while Brazen leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency. Human Oversight Design is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Brazen 46, Manatal 60, 12% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Manatal holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
Vendor profile
Manatal
Cloud-based applicant tracking system and recruitment CRM for agencies and HR teams, featuring an AI engine that scores and ranks candidates against job requirements and an asynchronous AI video Interviewer.
§ The record
Brazen is filed under Screening AI, Manatal under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brazen | Manatal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | TH |
| Founded | 2007 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · Manatal 60
1.7 weighted points to Manatal
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · Manatal 22
1.4 weighted points to Brazen
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · Manatal 33
1.4 weighted points to Brazen
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · Manatal 33
1.2 weighted points to Manatal
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · Manatal 52
1.1 weighted points to Manatal
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · Manatal 43
0.6 weighted points to Manatal
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · Manatal 62
0.6 weighted points to Manatal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus Manatal.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | Manatal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 33 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 43 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 41 (F) | -3 | -2.3 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Brazen | Manatal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Manatal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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