§ The result
Bryq leads Manatal by 16 points.
Bryq finishes 16 points clear of Manatal under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 41 — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Bryq leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Manatal leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bryq 70, Manatal 22 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
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
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, Manatal under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Manatal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | TH |
| Founded | 2017 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Manatal 22
8.6 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Manatal 33
4.2 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Manatal 52
1.5 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Manatal 43
1.4 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Manatal 33
1.1 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Manatal 60
0.7 weighted points to Manatal
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Manatal 62
0.3 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +16.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Manatal.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Manatal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 33 | +21 | +4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 22 | +48 | +8.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 60 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 43 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 41 (F) | +16 | +16.4 |
§ 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 | Bryq | Manatal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Manatal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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