§ The result
Employment Hero leads Manatal by 7 points.
Employment Hero scores 48 and Manatal 41 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Employment Hero, with 1 level: Employment Hero is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Manatal on FRIA Support. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 50, Manatal 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
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
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Manatal under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Sourcing and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | Manatal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | AU | TH |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Manatal 33
3.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Manatal 22
2.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Manatal 43
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Manatal 52
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Manatal 60
0.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Manatal 33
0.1 weighted points to Manatal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +7.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Manatal.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Manatal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 33 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 22 | +13 | +2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 33 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 43 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 41 (F) | +7 | +7.3 |
§ 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 | Employment Hero | Manatal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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