§ The result
Manatal leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Manatal, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 11 points above Cognisess, filed under Assessment: 41 against 30 under rubric v1.0. Manatal leads every one of the 7 criteria, Cognisess none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, Cognisess 20 to Manatal 22. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Cognisess 40, Manatal 62) and Human Oversight Design at 12% (Cognisess 42, Manatal 60), the second being 20% of the weighted advantage Manatal holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Cognisess
UK talent-analytics platform that scores candidates and employees with 50+ game-based and questionnaire assessments and weighted job-fit 'profilers', can auto-pass or auto-reject applicants against score thresholds, and runs recorded video interviews with optional DeepLearn video analytics.
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
Cognisess is filed under Assessment AI, Manatal under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | Manatal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | TH |
| Founded | 2011 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 20% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Manatal 60
2.2 weighted points to Manatal
15% weight · 39% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Manatal 33
1.9 weighted points to Manatal
8% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Manatal 62
1.8 weighted points to Manatal
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Manatal 33
1.6 weighted points to Manatal
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Manatal 52
1.5 weighted points to Manatal
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Manatal 43
1.3 weighted points to Manatal
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Manatal 22
0.4 weighted points to Manatal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -10.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Manatal.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Manatal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 33 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 22 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 33 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 43 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 41 (F) | -11 | -10.7 |
§ 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 | Cognisess | Manatal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 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 Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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